President Carter on Role of Faith in Combating Violence and Discrimination Against Women and Girls

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About JLI

An international collaboration on evidence for faith actors’ activities, contributions, and challenges to achieving humanitarian and development goals. Founded in 2012, JLI came together with a single shared conviction: there is an urgent need to build our collective understanding, through evidence, of faith actors in humanitarianism and development.

2014-womenOn February 10, President Carter and participants in the Center’s Human Rights Defenders Forum discussed efforts to protect the rights of women and girls from abuse, with a special emphasis on the role faith groups can play. The conversation, moderated by the Center’s Karin Ryan, featured leaders who are working against the normalization of violence in society, with a focus on confronting sexual violence and preventing conflict and violent extremism. This event furthers the charge set forth in President Carter’s acclaimed recent book, “A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power.”

Read more about the event and The Carter Center here.