It is estimated that one in three women will be beaten or raped in her lifetime – that is 1 billion women.

The refusal to hold perpetrators to account is a ‘global plague’ – and this year the one billion rising campaign will focus on justice and is calling for justice for survivors of gender violence

On 14 February 2013, one billion people in 207 countries rose and danced to demand an end to violence against women and girls.

For 14 February this year the One Billion Rising campaign is calling on women and men around the world to rise up and demand an end to violence against women – and demand justice.

One Billion Rising For Justice is a global call to women survivors of violence and those who love them to gather safely in community outside places where they are entitled to justice.

This might be courthouses, police stations, government offices, school administration buildings, work places, sites of environmental injustice, military courts, embassies, places of worship, homes, or simply public gathering places where women deserve to feel safe but too often do not.

It is a call to survivors to break the silence and release their stories – politically, spiritually, outrageously – through art, dance, marches, ritual, song, spoken word, testimonies and whatever way feels right.

Stories that have been buried, denied, erased, altered, and minimised by patriarchal systems that allow impunity to reign.

Justice begins when we speak, release, and acknowledge the truth in solidarity and community.

One Billion Rising For Justice is an invitation to break free from confinement, obligation, shame, guilt, grief, pain, humiliation, rage, and bondage.

The campaign is also a recognition that we cannot end violence against women without looking at the intersection of poverty, racism, war, the plunder of the environment, capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy.

Justice can take many forms.

It can be an apology or reparations.

Taking legal action.

It can be about making the truth visible.

It can be prosecuting, or pushing to create change, or implementing policies and laws that ensure the protection of women’s rights.

It can be calling for an end to all forms of inequality, discrimination, misogyny and patriarchy.

It can be naming or shaming perpetrators – whether they be individuals, groups, corporations or the state. Demanding accountability.

It can be rising for justice, be it personal, social, economic, cultural, environmental or political.  It can be a revolutionary call to restore dignity and respect for all women.

It can be about transformation.

We want to bring this global discussion to the forefront, and we want to hear from you what justice looks like.

Join thousands of activists from around the world, and share your vision of justice

The Guardian is covering events connected to One Billion Rising and would like to build a global picture of violence against women.

Is it something you’ve experienced? Or do you know someone – either a woman or a man – who has?

Why do you think it happens?

What do you think are the underlying causes of violence against women, globally or in your community?

What about the solutions.

Have you been involved in a campaign or initiative to prevent violence against women?

Say why it worked.

Do you have an idea for a campaign you’d like to get off the ground?

Will you take part in One Billion Rising?

The Guardian does recognise that these stories might be painful or sensitive, so if you’d like to submit something anonymously, we suggest setting up an account with a username that is different from your own, and make sure you turn your location data off.

If you have any problems with your submission, or you would like to discuss your submission before posting, please get in touch with the Guardian’s Maeve Shearlaw at this email address.

One billion rising for justice is about envisioning justice for all survivors of gender violence.

Go for it.