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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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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

APPG: Abductions, Forced Conversions, and Forced Marriages of Religious Minority Women and Girls in Pakistan

Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security: Women, Peace, and Security Index 2021/22

Open Doors: Children and Youth Specific Religious Persecution 2021

Open Doors: Invisible—The Gender Report 2022

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

21Wilberforce IRF Advocacy Hub: https://21wfreedom.center/

Catholic Relief Services: Women Leadership Curriculum

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: A Web of Forces, The 2023 Gender Report

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)

United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief (1981)

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

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

Global Gender Network

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

Long Road to Freedom

Let Her Dream

Writing with Fire

Yezidi Art: Life After Genocide

Bellwether International 2022 Art Contest Winners: Honoring Yezidi People and Culture

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