Under the "One Billion Rising Campaign", rights activists including women and men from different sectors participated in a rally from Baluwatar to Shantibatika carrying placards with the slogan that VAW should be ended from the society.[break]
The campaign is launched in different countries of the world today to express solidarity for ending VAW.
The rally, demanding guarantee of ending VAW, started from Baluwatar and converged into a corner meeting after reaching Shantibatika after going through different places of the capital.
Participants in the rally organised by various women rights organizations including Sancharika Samuha, demanded that laws to end VAW, be brought.
On the occasion, different women artistes staged a drama reflecting a message that women are not a commodity, but are human beings.
Chairperson of Sancharika Samuha Nirmala Sharma and women rights activist, Bandana Rana, demanded that a strict law be brought for ending VAW and stern action be taken against the accused in such cases.
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