Women will once again be rising on Sat 5th March demanding an end to male violence against women and children in all it's forms in the UK and Internationally. Last year approx 8,000 women marched through central London – lets join forces and spread the word.

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Coach Prices:

£10 - for fullly waged women
£5 - for women on a low wage or unemployed & children

Million Women Rise
By the time you have read this email thousands more women will be raped, beaten and murdered.

FACTS AND FIGURES

The Reality in the UK Today
Two women are murdered every week by their partner or ex partner.
Only 5% of rapes reported to the police result in the perpetrator being convicted in court.
250 cases of forced marriage are reported each year.
One woman a month is murdered in the name of ‘so called’ honour.
1 in 3 local authorities in the UK do not have rape crisis centres.
Fewer than 1 in 10 local authorities have specialised support services for ethnic minority women.
Over 20,000 girls could be at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the UK.

Internationally
It is estimated that a woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped than learning how to read.
In Lithuania, 20 to 50 percent women sexually exploited through prostitution are believed to be minors.
Each year, 2 million girls between the age of 5-15 are coerced, abducted or trafficked into sexual exploitation.
It is estimated that 1 in every 3 women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime.
Among women aged 15-44 years, gender-based violence accounts for more death and disability than the combined effects of cancer, malaria, traffic accidents or war.

WE NEED YOU TO JOIN US. EVERY WOMEN ATTENDING IS ANOTHER VOICE TO BE HEARD AND TO SPEAK OUT FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT BE THERE TO SPEAK OUT FOR THEMSELVES.

Women Uncut

Million Women Rise is outraged about recent funding cuts have impacted the women’s sector with many vital women’s services losing their funding.
Cuts mean that there will be less protection for the most vulnerable of women from male violence.
The crisis in capitalism has led to these severe cuts in services for women and children from basic refuge provision to cuts in legal aid, all denying women and children safety and justice. The cuts are risking even more women's lives and the need to join together is as vital and urgent as ever
History has shown that Cuts will disproportionately affect black women, women in poverty, women with disabilities, and women with no recourse more than any other group of women.
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We encourage women to wear red, and/or green.

The color red is most often associated with power and passion, with courage, loyalty, honor, success, fortune, fertility, and happiness,

For MWR it symbolizes the colour of Woman and her blood, which contains life, courage, respect, dignity and protection

Green is life. Abundant in nature, green signifies growth, renewal, health, and environment. Green is also associated with regeneration, fertility and rebirth, environmental protection and social justice
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Saturday 5 March 2010

12pm Meet Hyde Park (Speakers Corner End Nearest Tube: Marble Arch)

1.30pm March Route set off - Marching through central London

3.30 – 5.30pm Rally and Celebration in Trafalgar Square (Nearest Tubes: Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, and Charing Cross)

5pm - 1am Food and Networking Party at The 52 Club,  http://www.the52club.co.uk/,

52 Gower Street WC1E6EB, please note this is a wheelchair accessible venue.
Food, performances, swimming pool, DJs and chill-out space. Entry fee on the door – donation if unwaged, £5 low-waged and £12 waged.
This is an All Women Event Only

TOGETHER WE WILL END MALE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND CHILDREN
If your organisation would like to book a stall for the rally at Trafalgar Square, please contact the Million Women Rise Info Line on 07727 419634 or email  info@millionwomenrise.com

Please go to www.millionwomenrise.com to sign our statement of demands or to make a donation. We are a grassroots movement and so we rely on your help to make this march happen.

© Further information about Million Women Rise.

Million Women Rise
C/o WRC,
Ground Floor East,
33-41 Dallington St. East,
London
EC1V 0BB

Mobile Contact No: 07727 419 634
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EACH SISTER BRING A SISTER AND SPREAD THIS INVITE WIDE AND FAR....THANK YOU
IN SISTERHOOD AND SOLIDARITY
TOGETHER WE WILL END THIS VIOLENCE AGAINST US!