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Interaction with other FoRB leaders and advocates is a powerful motivating force. FoRB Women’s Alliance offers support from experts and mentors, accelerated knowledge and skills development and a gateway to potential partners. We invite you to explore the events and resources noted below and sign up to receive our newsletter.
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Events & Virtual Dialogues
FoRB Resources
BYU Law, International Center for Law and Religion Studies: Security Measures and the Gender Dimension of Freedom of Religion or Belief
BRILL: Introduction: Women’s Religious Freedom and Freedom of Religion or Belief
Danish Institute for Human Rights: Promoting Freedom of Religion or Belief and Gender Equality in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Focus on Access to Justice, Education and Health
Danish Institute for Human Rights & FORB Leadership Network: Freedom of Religion or Belief and Women’s Rights
HRWF/EU: World: Analysis of feminists’ prejudice against religious minority women
The Guardian: Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez – a world designed for men
NPR: ‘No Escape’ details the history of Uyghurs in China up to their modern-day oppression
Maryam Rostampour: Captive in Iran: A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran’s Brutal Evin Prison
Stefanus Alliance:Freedom of Religion or Belief for Everyone: Women In Focus
Stefanus Alliance: Freedom of Religion or Belief – an enemy or an ally in our struggle for gender equality?
Universal Rights Group, Geneva: Women’s Rights and Freedom of Religion or Belief
The Hill: The imminent danger for Afghanistan’s women and minorities
Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security: Women, Peace, and Security Index 2021/22
Widows for Peace Through Democracy: Widows Speak out—Abuse and Discrimination, Resilience and Agency
Religious Freedom Institute: The Power of Religious Freedom, The Power of Women
Religious Freedom Institute: Forced Conversions Continue to Plague Girls in Pakistan’s Minority Communities
The Review of Faith and International Affairs: Piecing the Puzzle—Women and Freedom of Religion or Belief
Abidemi Sanusi: Gloria!: The Archbishop’s Wife
Baroness Cox: Eyewitness to a Broken World
Mariam Ibraheem: Shackled: One Woman’s Triumph Over Persecution, Gender Abuse, and a Death Sentence
Nadia Murad: The Last Girl
Nury Turkel: No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs
21Wilberforce IRF Advocacy Hub: https://21wfreedom.center/
Catholic Relief Services: Women Leadership Curriculum
Christian Solidarity Worldwide: Let her be heard, The untold stories of indigenous religious minority women in Mexico
Empower Women Media: Live What You Believe series
FORB Learning Platform: FoRB and Gender Equality – Enemies or Allies?
FoRB Women’s Alliance: Women at The Table: Accelerating FoRB Capacity
Gender and Religious Freedom Network: International, Asia, Europe and North America
Human Rights Without Frontiers: Women’s Rights and Religion
Open Doors: Invisible, The 2022 Gender Report
Open Doors: A Web of Forces, The 2023 Gender Report
Open Doors: Insecurity, The 2024 Gender Report
Amnesty International: “Help Us Build Our Lives”, Girl Survivors of Boko Haram and Military Abuses in North-East Nigeria
Care International: Because They Are Women, How the Sudan Conflict Created a War on Women and Girls
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
CSW (UK): Let her be heard, The Untold Stories of Religious Minority Women in Mexico
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: Violence Against Women
The Core International Human Rights Instruments
UK Ministerial for International Religious Freedom statement on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Gender Equality
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief: Freedom of religion or belief and gender equality
UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
United Nations Human Rights Council — UNHRC: Comprehensive approach to promoting, protecting and respecting women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of human rights in humanitarian situations
United Nations Refugee Agency – UNHCR: Women on the Run
Uyghur Human Rights Project: Twenty Years for Learning the Quran: Uyghur Women and Religious Persecution
Valerie Hudson: Women, Peace and Security: Foundations, Research, Database
CREID Podcast: Naumana Suleman on empowering women from religious minorities in Pakistan
The Lantos Foundation: The Keeper
Raoul Wallenberg Institute: On Human Rights
University of Oxford: Rights Up – Global perspectives on human rights law
USCIRF: Spotlight Podcast
WHO: Women’s Health and Gender Inequalities
17 Rooms: Positive influence of faith for gender equality
Sister Act: Hurunnessa Fariad, Dr. Sabrina Dent & Rabbi Susan Shankman
Westminster Institute: Women and Minorities in Afghanistan with Farahnaz Ispahani
Council on Foreign Relations: The Intersection of Religious Freedom and Women’s Rights
USCIRF: Women’s Roles in Advancing International Religious Freedom
Rights not Roses – Ending Child, Early, and Forced Marriage in Pakistan
UN Women: Virtual reality film series: Women human rights activists
Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
Annual International Religious Freedom Reports
International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance: 2024 Statement on FoRB and Women’s Rights
Norwegian Helsiinki Committee Freedom of Religion or Belief Initiative: A Guide to Monitoring the Gender Dimension of FoRB
The Danish Institute for Human Rights: Promoting Freedom of Religion or Belief and Gender Equality in the Context of Sustainable Development Goals: Justice, Education and Health
USAID: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy
USAID: 2023 Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Policy Factsheet
USCIRF: Annual Reports
USCIRF: Women and Religious Freedom
USCIRF: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Against Religious Freedom Protestors in Iran
Yezidi Art: Life After Genocide
Bellwether International 2022 Art Contest Winners: Honoring Yezidi People and Culture
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