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Sam Dunaway | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n Feb.14 was a day filled with love and cherished relationships, but it also marked the anniversary of a powerful movement called One Billion Rising. Abby\u2019s House spent the afternoon educating Western students on this campaign to raise awareness on violence against women. <\/span><\/p>\n According to onebillionrising.org, one in three women in the world will be a victim of sexual or domestic violence in her lifetime. This adds up to one billion women and girls across the globe. The One Billion Rising movement began when people around the world came together to express concern and awareness of the issues that affect a large number of individuals. According to their website, One Billion Rising is the biggest initiative to end violence against women in history. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Of the various issues that this movement addresses, Abby\u2019s House advocates and volunteers chose three to focus on this year: refugee and migrant justice, gender-based violence and prioritizing education. They encouraged students to take action by writing one thing that they could do to further the movement on a balloon. The empowering balloons were displayed throughout the event. <\/span><\/p>\n Junior Kevan Maloney is an Abby\u2019s House advocate and helped educate students on this movement. When asked why One Billion Rising is important, Maloney replied, \u201cIt\u2019s super important because women make up half the population of the world. And almost more than half of them deal with problems like this every day. And that\u2019s super huge because no one should have to live like that. Period.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Volunteer advocate Jessica Lang addressed the importance of this event at Western. \u201cIt being out here and being presented like this, people who don\u2019t want to come up and have been in these situations know that they\u2019re supported.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Go to onebillionrising.org or visit Abby\u2019s House to get involved in the movement.<\/span><\/p>\n Contact the author at journalnews@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n Photo by:\u00a0onebillionrising.org<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sam Dunaway | News Editor Feb.14 was a day filled with love and cherished relationships, but it also marked the anniversary of a powerful movement called One Billion Rising. Abby\u2019s House spent the afternoon educating Western students on this campaign to raise awareness on violence against women. According to onebillionrising.org, one in three women in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}