This rape survivor is changing the way the U.S. combats sexual assault — and she's got a Congress-passed law and Nobel Peace Prize nomination to prove it. Special thanks to Rise.
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00:00There are 1.3 billion women who are survivors of sexual violence in the world.
00:06We demand that global leaders take sexual violence seriously.
00:21Every human being deserves the opportunity to be heard.
00:25No one is powerless when we come together,
00:28and no one is invisible when we demand to be seen.
00:44I realized that I had a choice.
00:46I could accept the injustice or rewrite the law, and so I rewrote it.
00:58The Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights contains some basic, non-controversial things,
01:08like the right to have access to your own medical report,
01:12the right to have access to your own police report,
01:15the right to have your rape kit not be destroyed before the statute of limitations.
01:28Every signature matters in our petition, because in certain governments,
01:32when you hit a number of petition signatures,
01:35they, by their own constitution or rules,
01:39have to debate it on their parliament or government bodies' floor,
01:43making an actual, concrete difference.
01:46You can absolutely change the world.
01:48Take it from someone who's trying.
01:53Sexual violence does not discriminate upon gender or race.
01:59It affects all of us.
02:01For marginalized communities, there are different types of impacts.
02:06It is on an epidemic level.
02:08It is on an epidemic level.
02:10It is on an epidemic level.
02:12It is on an epidemic level.
02:14It is on an epidemic level.
02:16It is on an epidemic level.
02:18There are different types of impacts.
02:21It is on an epidemic level.
02:23Until we are able to address these invisible war zones,
02:28that is only when we can make greater strides to achieve peace on Earth.