Just and Resilient Communities Project Gender-based Violence and Child Protection: Diocese of Mt Kenya West Partners: Anglican Overseas Aid and Anglican Church of Kenya This project is implemented in Nyeri County in the Diocese of Mount Kenya West from 2014-2017.…
Published: 2016
Author:Tanya Caulfield
Report from UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) As the civil war in Syria further deteriorates, accounts of systematic human rights abuses continue to emerge, including torture, starvation, and widespread sexual violence against civilians and combatants. More than five million…
Published: 2017
Author:Dr. Sarah Chynoweth
This article draws on anthropological field work conducted during the West African Ebola outbreak (2014-2016) and reports of the ongoing Covid-19 crisis to discuss the role played by religion in infectious disease control.While much separates Ebola and Covid-19, the religious…
Published: 2020
Author:Fabian Winiger
Achieving the goal of women and girls living healthy lives, free from violence, will require not just good intentions, but well-coordinated, funded strategies by international bodies, governments, civil society and communities. This call to action holds a common human rights…
Published: 2014
Author: Lori Michau, Jean Kemitare, Jessica Horn
102 UNICEF offices provided information about their extensive work with faith communities over recent years. Partnerships included sensitization activities, capacity development, and support for advocacy and social mobilization. The mapping report concludes: “With evidence of UNICEF’s extensive engagement with religious communities in plain view, UNICEF must now turn its attention to maximizing the benefits of its partnerships with these critical actors”
Published: 2015
Author:UNICEF
In recent decades, more studies have emerged that examine the relationship between religion /spirituality, marital functioning and mental health. The scholarship on domestic violence (DV) / intimate partner violence (IPV) and religion does not appear to have integrated this evidence…
Published: 2022
Author:Romina Istratii and Parveen Ali
This video is designed to combat stigma against survivors of rape and sexual violence. It is inspired by the work of The United Methodist Church in the East Congo Episcopal Area. Produced by Chocolate Moose Media, Harper Hill Global and…
Published: 2017
Author:Harper Hill Global, Chocolate Moose Media, WiseHeart Foundation
Five years have passed since the global community through the United Nations adopted 2030 Agenda 2030 for sustainable Development with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development presents the closest the global community has come to…
Published: 2020
Author:Africa Interfaith Initiative on SDGs
“Sustained Relational Collaborations”. Rev Bob Mitchell's words on behalf of the Church Agencies Network.
Published: 2016
Author:Rev Bob Mitchell
A Decolonial Approach to Domestic Violence in Ethiopia This book provides a critical and decolonial analysis of gender and development theory and practice in religious societies through the presentation of a detailed ethnographic study of conjugal violence in Ethiopia. Responding…
Published: 2021
Author:Romina Istratii
Efforts to address domestic violence in religious communities are not new. Numerous initiatives by academics, practitioners and religious believers have emerged that recognise the need for a close engagement with religious beliefs and religious personnel, historically neglected in the secular…
Published: 2021
Author:Romina Istratii
The following policy brief focuses on lessons learned around attitudes toward engaging faith more broadly.
Published: 2017
Author:Selina Palm, Elisabet Le Roux and Brenda E. Bartelink
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