UN WOMEN: MARCH 8th "ONE WOMAN"

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 Less than a month ago, on the 14th of February, the project that, during a year, had been worked upon, culminated to celebrate a commemorative act worldwide: to dance for the end of violence against women.

Today, March 8, a project that has been gestated during a year, comes to light: “One Woman” is the hymn with which the United Nations, through UN Women (the organization which defends women and female children) wants to commemorate the International Women’s Day.

Link to the UN project “One Woman”

http://song.unwomen.org

This song will see the light today, 8 of March, so that we can all spread it through the social networking services, and its message can reach the biggest possible number of persons.

Debi

Various international artists have collaborated like Anoushka Shankar from Great Britain, Beth Blatt form the United States, Concha Buika from Spain, Bebel Gilberto from Brazil. Acclaimed singers and musicians from around the world, men and women, have come together to spread a message of unity and solidarity: we are “One Woman”.

Yuna

These artists consider that denouncing through music enables them to reach and connect better with every woman. In the words of Anoushka Shankar “Melodies can connect with people and are able to break boundaries we never thought could be broken”.

Video: Our artists on who inspires them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9dbveuoVKo0

Rokia Traoré

“One Woman” wants to remind us that to change the situation of women, unity is necessary. We have lived it through the dance a few weeks ago, and now the suggestion is to unite through the sound and the intention. While the rest of the world prepares for different kinds of celebrations, UN Women, calls for all of us to sing for the woman.

From Feminine Inspiration we echo this project collaborating in spreading it through our Blog.

We think that any initiative involving women and men in projects towards searching for an eradication of violence against women is worthy of, at least, divulging it.

This is not the first time a project of these characteristics is done, the song “We are the World” searched for funds to help hungry children in Africa. In this case, the money obtained with “One Woman” will go to UN Women to help improve the condition of women worldwide.

This is the most relevant thing we can see: with the use of audiovisual means and social network services, people from around the world can make contact to join their strength for the realization of a project.

If this project is destined to create awareness of the violence against women, and it is useful to unite men and women from any place and condition by singing, then, evidently, this said project vibrates in a feminine way: in the way of not fighting, in the non-violent vindication, without confrontation.

Anyhow, we cannot stop feeling that this project could have more impact, more veracity, and compromise if it was not just to buy a song in Internet and to share it in the social network services, if it was a project that would encourage everybody to sing under the same intention, on March 8^th. Can you imagine the impact of millions of people singing?

Let not this song become an anecdote that will silence everything that is left to be done, and all the minds left to change; the first ones, ours, women’s.

Let’s sing; let us sing as loud as our lungs can, so it becomes an impulse for what it is to come, and it will stay in the superficial.