Standing Women - Global Unity for a Better World

This initiative draws on community mobilisation strategies - fueled by multimedia, interactive internet exchanges - to encourage people to gather in silence for a 5-minute-long silence in local parks, schools, churches, and other public places to promote a better world for future generations. The call to gather is posted, as of 2010, in 21 languages, on the Standing Women website, with the result being a 24-hour global wave of humanity. Guidance is offered: "Please stand at a different hour with a different time zone if 1 p.m. is not your preferred time. We ask you to invite the men who you care about to join you. We ask that you bring bells to ring at 1 p.m. to signify the beginning of the five minutes of silence and to ring again to signify the end of the period of silence. During the silence, please think about what you individually and we collectively can do to attain this world. If you need to sit rather than stand, please feel free to do so. Afterwards, hopefully you and your loved ones can talk together about how we can bring about this world."

The Standing Women website is intended to be a global community for sustaining the conversation about social change beyond each year's event, with features such as music, photos, a blog, and videos.

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