19 Nov Afghan Women Speak: Stories From Inside Afghanistan Won Two Anthem Awards; See V at Miami Book Fair
V-Day’s Afghan Women Speak: Stories From Inside Afghanistan Won Two Anthem Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Afghan Women Speak: Stories From Inside Afghanistan has won two Anthem Awards. The V-Day series received the Silver award for Social Media Content, Campaign and Global Awareness Campaign in the Education, Arts & Culture category. Anthem Award Winners are selected by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and this year was the most competitive season yet with more than 2,300 entries submitted from 34 countries worldwide.
We honor and thank the brave Afghan women who shared their stories from inside Afghanistan and risked their lives. While their names have been changed due to security, their voices will never be silenced.
“We believe the women of Afghanistan have the right to education, to travel, to freedom of movement and speech, to be able to speak with each other, to jobs, to security, just having the freedom to breathe and be. Stand with them. Share their voices. Break the silence.” – stated V (formerly Eve Ensler) Executive Producer for the series and founder of V-Day/One Billion Rising in her acceptance speech for the project.
The series is made with the women of Afghanistan. Executive Produced by V and Susan Celia Swan, V-Day’s Executive Director. Drake Creative’s Alexandra Tuller and Dean Temple are the Creative Directors, V-Day’s Carl Cheng is a producer.
Afghan women have lost access to education, employment, and multiple other freedoms such as singing or reading aloud in public, looking at men who are not relatives, traveling without a male chaperone and utilizing public spaces like parks and gyms. Every day, the rights of millions of women in Afghanistan are violated, stripped and threatened.
You can help raise their voices. Share the series everywhere. VIEW the series here.
SUPPORT Afghan women and their families, DONATE to the Simeen Mobile Health Team today.
JOIN V at Miami Book Fair
Join V (formerly Eve Ensler) for “V ON 40 YEARS OF RECKONING – in Conversation with writer and community archivist Nadege Green” at the Miami Book Fair, Saturday, 23 November. Reckoning recounts V’s creative journey and process across 40 years, representing the ideas that have become the global movements V-Day and One Billion Rising and the methods through which she survived abuse and self-hatred.
TICKETS (FREE but must be reserved in advance):
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