Statistics show that one in three women across the planet will be beaten or raped in her lifetime.

That's one billions sisters, mothers or daughters in the world.

Ally Cramm with the local Rowan House Women's Emergency Shelter says they'll be bringing awareness of the issue during their One Billion Rising March which begins and ends at Ethel Tucker Park in Okotoks.

"One Billion Rising is a global movement that happens all across the world between Feb. 1 and March 8." Rowan House will be participating in this event for our second time and we will be doing an awareness march in Ethel Tucker Park at 1 p.m.," Cramm says.

"We'll be reconvening at Ethel Tucker Park at about 2 p.m., where we'll have some speeches from our board chair and out MLA and then we'll have performances by local musician Tanya Ryan and an aboriginal performer, Walter McDonald Whitebear," she says.