COUNTRIES ROSE FOR
CONGO: Rise to tackle cultural and societal chains that continue to annihilate the development of women in society – retrograde customs, sexist practices, hegemonic masculinity, discrimination.
PORTUGAL: Rise for Gaza and water.
SOUTH AFRICA: Rise to end the unabated gender-based violence against the LGBTQIA and the rape situation, and government noncompliance in enforcing the law and lack of accountability. Rise for the children of Gaza.
BANGLADESH: Rise to end local and global gender-based violence – highlighting local gang rapes and feudal / slavery mindsets, and the ongoing violence towards Palestinian.
AUSTRIA: Rise to protect the democratic system from the right wing.
CAMBODIA: Rise to end online gender-based violence, and to hold responsible stakeholders, including the authorities, accountable.
ITALY: Rise for women’ s freedom and liberation from male violence. Rise to end femicide.
JAPAN: Rise to protect Japan’ s civil code from revisions that would enable joint custody even for perpetrators. Rise for sex education.
CAMEROON: Rise for freedom from poverty, stress, abuse and violence.
CROATIA: Rise to end femicide, and to prevent the decline of women’ s human rights – focusing on sexual and reproductive rights. Rise for refugees / migrant women and women victims of war sexual violence.
ZIMBABWE: Rise to empower local artists to allow them to create impactful art about freedom.
ZAMBIA: Rise against child marriage, child abuse.
SERBIA: Rise for the freedom of Roma women.