Event Date
Monday 12 March
- Women of Faith Speaking to Structural Change: Empowering Rural Women
Temple of Understanding (Armenian Convention Center, Guild Hall) - Empowerment Stories and Interfaith Actions, United Religions Initiative (URI) (Armenian Convention Center, Guild Hall)
Tuesday 13 March
- 1:15pm : Preventing the Trafficking of Rural Women and Girls: Integrating Inherent Dignity into a human Rights Model, Holy See (UN Conference Room 1)
- 4:30pm: Women of Faith Speak Out on Engaging Religious Leaders, Episcopal Relief and Development with CAFOD, Islamic Relief, JWI, Restored (We will Speak Out.US 4 West 43rd Street New York, NY Social Hall (between Avenue of the Americas & Fifth Ave.)
Wednesday 14 March
- Faith and Feminism: Voices of Affirmation National Public Radio (NPR) Interview with Randy Cohen – Person, Place (Must RSVP)
- 8:30 am: Frontline Leadership: Rural Women in the Anti-Fracking Movement, Mining Working Group (Salvation Army, 221 E. 52nd Street)
Thursday 15 March
- 11:30am: Empowering Women and Promoting Gender Justice in the Muslim World, OAIC (UN Conference Room D, Conference Building, 405 East 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017)
- 4:00pm: Do you have faith in the SDGs?Faith-sensitive gender justice mainstreaming, towards inclusion
of faith actors, Co-organised with LWF, FCA and WCC UNFPA, UN Women, Islamic Relief and Global Affairs Canada (US 4 West 43rd Street New York, NY Social Hall (between Avenue of the Americas & Fifth Ave.)
Friday 16, March
- 10am: Launching the Global Consultation on the Islamic Gender Justice Declaration, Islamic Relief Worldwide (RSVP Required)
- 12:15pm: Policy Roundtable of the Faith-Based Community of Praxis on Gender Justice, ACT Alliance (Invite only)
- 6pm: 4th Annual CSW Interfaith Service of Remembrance and Gratitude, . Sponsored by United
Methodist Women, NGO CSW, URI, Parliament of the World’s Religions, Temple of Understanding, International Federation of Women in Legal Careers (Church Center for the
United Nations, Tillman Chapel 44th St and 1st Ave)
Monday 19, March
- 10am: Building Bridges: developing effective partnerships between faith and secular actors to
challenge discriminatory gender norms and secure rural women’s rights. Co-sponsors: Danish Mission, ACT Alliance, UNFPA (Ex-Press Bar, UN Secretariat (Entrance on East 46th street
and 1st Avenue)- Presentation from JLI GBV Hub
- 2:30pm: Human Trafficking in America– Risks for women and girls in rural areas and collaborative prevention by Faith-Based Communities, UNICEF USA, Arigatou International, NY Board of Rabbis (Salvation Army 221 E. 52nd Street)
Wednesday 21, March
- 8:30am: The response of Muslim faith communities in tackling GBV – Islamic Relief’s GBV Policy and Campaign Launch