V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop worldwide violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.

About Eve Ensler

Eve Ensler (Playwright/Performer/Activist), award-winning author of The Vagina Monologues, is touring 20 North American cities from October 2005-April 2006 with her newest play The Good Body, following engagements on Broadway in NYC, at ACT in San Francisco, and in a workshop production at Seattle Repertory Theatre (www.thegoodbody.com). The Good Body has been been published by Villard/Random House. The Good Body addresses why women of all cultures and backgrounds -- whether undergoing Botox injections or living beneath burkhas -- feel compelled to change the way they look in order to fit in, to be accepted, to be good.

V-Day's Worldwide Campaign

The Worldwide Campaign strives to empower women to find their collective voices and demand an end to the epidemic levels of violence and abuse in their communities around the world. Funds raised by V-Day organizers have saved women’s rape crisis centers and many other organizations that work to end violence against women from closing down or helped them to expand their services. In 2005 more than 100 million people were exposed to V-Day’s mission through the 1,077 College and Worldwide V-Day events that took place in 43 countries including the U.S. and over $3.3 million was raised.

V-Day's Spotlight Campaigns

Each year V Day creates a Spotlight around a particular group of women who are experiencing violence with the goal of raising awareness by putting a worldwide media spotlight on this area and raising funds to aide groups who are addressing it:
V-Day 2002: Women Of Afghanistan
V-Day 2003: Native American and First Nations Women
V-Day 2004: Missing and Murdered Women In Juarez, Mexico
V-Day 2005: Women Of Iraq, Under Siege

V-Day's 2006 Spotlight - "Justice to Comfort Women"

On the 60th Anniversary of the end of World War II, V-Day joins women and men around the world in calling for justice to ‘Comfort Women’ survivors.The euphemism ‘comfort women’ was coined by imperial Japan to refer to young females of various ethnic and national backgrounds who were forced to offer sexual services to the Japanese troops during the Asia/Pacific Wars between 1932 and 1945. Some were minors; others were deceptively recruited by middlemen; still more were detained and forcibly abducted. Estimates of the number of ‘comfort women’ range between 50,000 to 200,000.

In the early 1990s, Korean victims of Japan’s military sexual slavery broke their silence and came forward nearly a half century after WWII, followed by other survivors in China, Taiwan, North Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and Timor L’Este. Now the aging survivors are dying off one by one without redress from the Japanese government, which still denies legal responsibility.

Contact V-Day

www.vday.org