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Mobilizing Religious Leaders to Combat Violence against Women in Turkey

Mobilizing Religious Leaders to Combat Violence against Women in Turkey Posted on August 14, 2014 by Nukhet Kardam — 1 Comment ↓ by Meltem Ağduk and Nükhet Kardam - Turkey - Violence against Women (VAW) is a violation of human rights rooted in inequality between women and men. Resistance to combating ...

Save the date! Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Forum 2015: Faith Session

Save the date! SVRI Forum 2015: Innovation and Intersections, 14 – 17 September 2015, Cape Town, South Africa. SVRI is pleased to invite you to its 4th international conference, the SVRI Forum 2015. This exciting conference will bring together researchers, gender activists, funders, policy makers, service ...

A Call to Action: Faith for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights Post 2015 Development Agenda

Dear JLI Members, Below is a Declaration signed by faith leaders, faith-based organizations, and theologians from academic centers, at the UN General Assembly side event, on Friday September 19, at a consultation co-hosted by UNAIDS and UNFPA. An Inter Press Service article on the global consultation can also ...

Success at Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict

On June 10-13, the UK’s Foreign Secretary and Angelina Jolie, Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees co-chaired the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence. The three-day summit was a great success at which Jolie and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for an end to sexual violence in ...

Report: Pastors’ views of Sexual and Domestic Violence in the US

IMA World Health on behalf of the WeWillSpeakOut.US campaign and Sojourners have just released a report detailing the attitudes of Protestant pastors in the United States on the issue of sexual and domestic violence (press release is below). The results are compelling and in some instances, troubling. The ...

Faith Leaders First Port of Call for Rape Survivors

June 11, 2014 Leaders from different faiths shared stories at the Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict summit this week, at a debate chaired by UK Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Minister for Women the Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP. The event was hosted by the We will Speak Out coalition, which is a faith based ...

Head of Caritas Advocates Ending GBV

May 30, 2014 Caritas International Secretary General, Michael Roy, recently participated in a studio debate on the Vatican Radio to discuss sexual violence in conflict zones. "This practice...is a dehumanising practice. It's destroying families and communities, so our work has to be re-humanising, rebuilding ...

GBV Hub to Meet Following Global Summit in London

SGBV Learning Hub will meet in person on June 13th at 1pm immediately following the Global Summit. Location: Novotel Board Room JLI SGBV Hub Meeting Agenda June 2014. RSVP: [email protected] Among Members attending so far are: Chloe Lewis, Linacre College; Ann Marie Wilson, 28 Too Many; Tanja ...

Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict

From June 10-12, 2014 at the ExCel London, the UK's Foreign Secretary and Angelina Jolie, the Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees will co-chair the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence. This summit will be the largest-ever gathering related to this issue, and will work to ...