One Billion Rising (OBR) Celebration: One Billion Rising is the biggest mass action to end violence against women (cisgender, transgender, and those who hold fluid identities that are subject to gender-based violence) in human history. The campaign, which launched on Valentine’s Day 2012, began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3 women on the planet will be beaten or raped during her lifetime. With the world population at 7 billion, this adds up to more than ONE BILLION WOMEN AND GIRLS. 

Like every year, Nepal will celebrate OBR with theme “Rise for freedom” at World Social Forum with collective ownership and presence of diverse civil society from Nepal. "Rise For Freedom" means rising for peace, compassion, kindness, connection, community and care, and connecting our freedom to someone else’s lack of freedom.

We will celebrate this freedom festival with art, dance, songs, empowerment, community, connection, music, body, imagination, love, interconnectedness. Celebration of festival will end making a human chain as a solidarity to end all form of violence.