Million Women Rise

The march starts in Hyde Park and moves through Oxford Street in the famous West End shopping district, stopping traffic.

It is followed by a rally in Trafalgar Square, with survivors of violence speaking to the crowd.

[1][2] MWR has no corporate sponsors, and the organisers are grassroots activists without ties to large charities or NGOs.

She was motivated in part by her childhood experiences growing up on a multicultural London housing estate, where violence against women was often treated as normal and unremarkable.

[3] Million Women Rise (MWR) believes that male violence against women and children is a global pandemic that devastates lives and threatens to undermine efforts to bring about sustainable development.