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"   Did you know that one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime and that two women a week are killed by their partners? New police reports show that domestic violence calls amount to 1 in 10 of all 999 calls (in some areas, as many as 1 in 5) and that up to a third of all domestic incidents are classified as &amp;#039;repeat&amp;#039; occurrences. REMEMBER COSMO&amp;#039;S F WORD CAMPAIGN? Alarmed? You&amp;#039;re not alone. Which is why today, women around the world are joining what&amp;#039;s been described as &amp;#039;feminist tsunami&amp;#039;, led by campaigner (and writer of The Vagina Monologues) Eve Ensler. Today under Eve&amp;#039;s lead, women will be raising awareness of the alarming number of women and girls raped or abused in their lifetime for the &amp;#039;One Billion Rising&amp;#039; campaign (one billion refers to the number of women and girls alive today who will be raped or attacked) and encouraging people to speak out against violence. The movement aims to tackle violence against women in all forms \u2013 from domestic violence to human trafficking \u2013 and Ensler has already encouraged thousands of organisations and unions to sign up, totalling more than 24.7 million members.  But it&amp;#039;s not just talk. In London today, actress Thandie Newton will lead a flashmob of dancers (yep, you heard us) outside Parliament to raise awareness for the cause. And MPs (led by Stella Creasy for Labour and Amber Rudd for the Conservatives) will be debating calls for new laws to make personal, social and health education (including a zero-tolerance approach to violence and abuse in relationships) a requirement in schools.  6 SECRETS OF STRESS-FREE WOMEN As Yvette Cooper, Shadow Home Secretary explains, &amp;quot;The scale of sexual and domestic violence is disturbingly high and demands urgent action. New data from police forces also shows much more should be done \u2013 by the Government, the police, courts and others \u2013 to tackle serial abuse. Yet instead, action to tackle violence against women has lost momentum after years of progress. There is a serious risk of going backwards because of things like police cuts, taking suspected rapists off the DNA database, and lack of Ministerial commitment.&amp;quot; Here Cosmo, we&amp;#039;re big believers in the F word (that&amp;#039;s feminism dontchaknow) so we&amp;#039;ll be backing One Billion Rising all the way today. If you too feel strongly that we need to make a stand, visit One Billion Rising to find out how to get involved (oh and don&amp;#039;t panic, dancing = not necessary). WHAT TO WEAR ON YOUR FIRST DAY OF WORK "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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