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

On 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 ...

Islamic Relief on Reducing Instances of FGM/C

Reducing instances of FGM/C February 6, 2015 Millions of girls are subjected to female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) every year, but efforts are being made to end the harmful practice. The cultural practice is usually carried out on young girls, but women may undergo it too. Islamic Relief’s office in ...

Webinar: Faith leaders speak out on gender-based violence

Faith leaders speak out on gender-based violence Wednesday 11th February 2015 12-1pm UK time (GMT) Click here to see your time zone Members of the We Will Speak Out coalition and global faith leaders will be online for one hour to discuss how to mobilise churches in ending sexual ...

Tearfund UK and HEAL Africa awarded DFID Innovation Grant: What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls

Tearfund UK and their partner HEAL Africa in the DRC have just been awarded one of the Innovation Grants from the DFID-funded "What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls" global research and innovation programme. This programme will address important evidence gaps on the impact of faith groups in ...

Innovations & Intersections: Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum 2015

Dear SGBV Hub Members, We are pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts to participate at the SVRI Forum 2015 on this first day of the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence! This important event will be hosted from 14 – 17 September at Spier 1692 Estate, Stellenbosch, South Africa. It will bring ...

Faith leaders commit to Worship for WASH to save children and women

ANI | New Delhi Nov 10, 2014 Last Updated at 07:02 PM IST Faith leaders commit to Worship for WASH to save children and women Nine prominent leaders from the major faiths in India came together today to announce the launch of a globally unprecedented initiative to save millions of Indian children, ...

SGBV Hub Representative Dr. Helen Leibling to Speak at DFID Roundtable on the Role of Faith Communities in Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls

DFID will be holding a session during Interfaith Week on the role of faith communities in tackling women and girls. SGBV Hub Member Dr. Helen Liebling will be speaking at the session. Other staff and representatives from FBOs and NGOs working on tackling violence against women and girls will also be ...

Save the Date! International Security Summit on Violence, Sessions including GBV: Luxembourg, November 12th to 14th, 2014

The first International Security Summit on Violence will be held in Luzembourg, November 12th to 14th, 2014. Topics on gender-based violence, including FGM, violence against women, and domestic violence will be discussed on the first day of the summit. The Summit will be launched in coordination with ...

New Report! WAITING TO SPEAK: SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE

Check out Tearfund's latest report here! This study explores the needs of survivors of sexual violence in South Africa. Despite sexual and gender based violence receiving increasing public attention globally, those affected remain largely silent. Rape statistics do not begin to explain what victims experience ...

Faith: Religious tools that can help Eliminate Female Genital Cutting

View the July 2014 report here from Tearfund & MPANZI on religious tools that can help eliminate female genital cutting. This is a preliminary report on a baseline study that examined the trends of, barriers and opportunities to eliminating Female Genital Cutting among the Gusii and Maasai of South-western Kenya.

New Report: Country Profile: FGM in Sierra Leone

View 28 Too Many's latest report here. Below is a brief description of the report. On Saturday 17th May, a nine year old Sierra Leonean girl died from female genital mutilation (FGM). This case is unusual but only in that it was made public and reported. Despite being widespread in Sierra Leone FGM ...

MCB Press Release: ‘Female Genital Mutilation and Islam’ resource launched by The Muslim Council of Britain, FORWARD and the Muslim Spiritual Care Provision

‘Female Genital Mutilation and Islam’ resource launched by The Muslim Council of Britain, FORWARD and the Muslim Spiritual Care Provision Thursday 19th June 2014 The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), FORWARD (a UK based African women’s support and campaigning organisation) in association with The ...