Religious Actors: Ally or Threat for Achieving Gender Equality?
You are warmly invited to a pre-Event to Generation Equality Forum and the High Level Political Forum
Religious Actors: Ally or Threat for Achieving Gender Equality?
Program:
- Opening remarks: Khushwant Singh, Head of Secretariat, PaRD
- Launching new report: Dr. Nora Khalaf-Elledge, Post-Doc Fellow, Joint Learning Initiative
Looking Back to Look Forward: The Role of Religious Actors since the Beijing Declaration
- Zainah Anwar, Executive Director, Musawah
- Karin Ericsson, Programme Specialist Gender Equality, Sida
- Umyra Ahmad, Advancing Universal Rights and Justice Coordinator, AWID
- Dr. Nontando Hadebe, International Coordinator, Side by Side
Moderator: Shahin Ashraf MBE, Head of Global Advocacy, Islamic Relief Worldwide
Launching a new report co-published by ACT Alliance, Act Church of Sweden, Side by Side, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Joint Learning Initiative on Faith Communities, SVRI, Goldsmiths and PaRD. With live illustrator and Q&A.
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CoNGO Notes: For more information on the NGO Committee on the Status of Women-NY, please visit ngocsw.org. For more information on the NGO Committee on the Status of Women-Vienna, please visit ngocswvienna.org. For more information on the NGO Committee on the Status of Women-Geneva, please visit ngocsw-geneva.ch. For more information on the Committee of Religious NGOs at the United Nations, please visit rngos.wordpress.com.