07 Mar 2026 Around the World, We RISE – International Women’s Day 2026
Around the World, We RISE
International Women’s Day 2026
The World Is Rising for Our Bodies, Our Earth, Our Future.
As we move into 8 March – International Women’s Day, communities across the globe are continuing to rise.
Throughout February, powerful One Billion Rising gatherings took place from the Philippines, India, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom to Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nepal and Afghanistan, and across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and the Pacific. Activists, artists, survivors, youth leaders, workers, indigenous women and grassroots organizers came together in public squares, schools, villages, theaters and community centers – dancing, speaking out, creating art, and mobilizing their communities.
Throughout Women’s Month/March, communities will continue to rise – from Mongolia, where 21 risings will take place across all 21 provinces, to Thailand, where 1,000 Indigenous women will lead a major rising, to the US, Namibia, Brazil, Pakistan, Serbia, Zimbabwe, and beyond.
These risings take many forms: artistic festivals, theatre performances, mural projects, community debates, marches reclaiming bodily autonomy, youth gatherings, and powerful acts of solidarity.
Credits: @daniela.anticic.photo; OBR Cameroon; OBR Japan; Jagori Grameen; UP Diliman Gender Office
At a time when violence, authoritarianism, and climate devastation threaten our communities, the One Billion Rising movement continues to show what collective power looks like.
Together, we RISE – with joy, creativity, courage, and solidarity.
JOIN US. Stage an artistic rising/event in your city/town/university highlighting the most pressing issues.
IDEAS & info, check out the One Billion Rising toolkit and disability justice toolkit.
READ the blog for photos & news from risings worldwide.
MEET the OBR Global Coordinators.
FOLLOW us on social media on Instagram and Facebook
SHARE your One Billion Rising footage and photos with us.
QUESTIONS, email us at [email protected]
V-Day Mourns the Loss of Iraqi Feminist Leader Yanar Mohammed
We are devastated by the killing of our beloved friend, Iraqi feminist leader Yanar Mohammed, co-founder of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), who was shot outside her home in Baghdad on Monday.
In 2003, she founded the first women’s shelter in Iraq to protect women from trafficking, honor killings, and systemic abuse becoming the target of death threats over her activism. Despite constant threats to her life, she continued to establish shelters across the country, offering protection and hope to women with nowhere else to turn. Through OWFI, she built a feminist resistance movement in Iraq – challenging military occupation, imperialism, religious militias, patriarchal violence in all its forms.
“Yanar was a warrior for women’s freedom. She understood that imperialism, patriarchy, war, occupation, and fundamentalism all feed violence against women. She risked everything to protect women in Iraq. She built shelters when it was dangerous to even speak about women’s rights. We will continue her fight.”
– V (formerly Eve Ensler)
With Yanar’s assassination, we have lost a courageous and visionary leader. Her killing is a painful reminder of the grave dangers faced by women human rights defenders around the world at a time when women’s rights are increasingly under threat. Yanar never stopped fighting for women’s rights, dignity, and freedom. We honor Yanar and her life’s work.