Join Religions for Peace and partners for Religions and Women’s Rights: Principled Engagement and Mutual Accountability. Religions and Women’s Rights: Principled Engagement and Mutual Accountability will be held online and face-to face in New York, on Wednesday, 16 March at 8.30 am EST.
On behalf of Religions for Peace, The United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect (OSAPG), the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Its Causes and Consequences, and the Permanent Mission of South Africa to the United Nations, we are pleased to cordially invite you to a high-level dialogue between religious leaders and a number of senior United Nations representatives working on achieving gender equality and preventing atrocity crimes including ending violence against women and girls at the official side event of the 66th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on Wednesday, 16 March at 8.30 am EST. To find your time zone, please click here.
Achieving gender equality and ending violence against women are essential to the prevention of atrocity crimes and requires the engagement of the whole of society. While many religious institutions and faith-based organizations and leaders play an active role on these issues, there is further room to engage them more meaningfully; leverage their roles more strongly on the goal to end gender-based violence (GBV) and achieve gender equality; and give visibility to the work they have done where it has made an impact. The current global climate of push-back against gender equality – justified at times in the name of religious, social or cultural norms) as well as the many ways in which COVID has exacerbated gender inequality and GBV adds a particular urgency to this engagement with faith-based organizations and religious institutions. These gender-based inequalities and violence, including gender-based hate speech, constitute risk factors for atrocity crimes and need to be addressed for effective prevention.
In this conversation, we aim at addressing intersection between religion, gender equality, the right of women to live free from GBV and the prevention of atrocity crimes and at exploring the points of collaboration and synergy between the multi-faith leaders and multilateral institutions.
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