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New commitments to promote gender equality

At Generation Equality Forum, LWF pledges to accelerate action to prevent and respond to gender-based violence
“Here we stand!”
16 August 2017
A visual message from Wittenberg on women’s ordination (LWI) – Over 120 women pastors from 18 countries have sent a strong signal during the Reformation celebrations in Wittenberg. Coming together under the motto “Here we stand!” and wearing clerical ...
“Sister, carry on!”
15 August 2017
WICAS meeting of bishops and women in church leadership
Protecting human rights’ defenders
14 July 2017
Annual training helps to bring local concerns to the global arena (LWI) – Testimonies by human rights’ defenders are an important component of an annual advocacy training on women’s human rights, organized by faith-based organizations (FBOs) at the ...
Gender-based violence concerns "all of humanity"
12 July 2017
Faith-based organizations affirm greater engagement in fighting for women’s rights (LWI) - Advocacy for women’s rights and the fight against gender-based violence is not only a concern for women but crucial for the whole of humanity and more men need ...
Strengthening advocacy for women’s human rights
3 July 2017
LWF gathers faith-based organizations at training around CEDAW session (LWI) Delegates from around the world will this week explore strategies that lay and religious leaders and other civil society actors can use to increase the impact of faith-based advocacy ...
Freedom from violence and full participation
10 May 2017
Women’s Pre-Assembly message to the Twelfth Assembly Freedom from violence and the full participation of women in church and society were the key themes of the message from the Women’s Pre-Assembly of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF). “We celebrate ...
“Claim what is already ours”
9 May 2017
The long way towards women’s ordination in Poland “I cried when I heard the Synod’s decision of April 2016,” recalls Agnieszka Godfrejow-Tarnogorska (44) of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland (ECACP). Her church had just decided ...
Up to 100 women gather for LWF Women's Pre-Assembly in Windhoek
5 May 2017
WINDHOEK, Namibia/GENEVA, 4 May 2017 (LWI) - Up to 100 women delegates to the Twelfth Assembly of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF), members of the LWF Women in Church and Society (WICAS) network and a local women’s working group are gathering in Namibia’s ...
As people of faith, we must work for women’s empowerment
27 March 2017
NEW YORK, United States/GENEVA
The dream of freedom
8 March 2017
A former house servant becomes an advocate against bonded labor
A total absence of law
7 March 2017
LWF supports survivors of gender-based violence in South Sudan (LWI) Amina* was lying under a palm tree when a caseworker from The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) found her. The teen had been covering herself with palm leaves after walking for days from South ...
A strong message from Africa’s women
9 February 2017
Women on the Move to Windhoek (LWI) – The Women’s Pre-Meeting held prior to the Africa Pre-Assembly was an opportunity to discover central issues women in Africa are dealing with and to create a space for dialogue, networking and empowerment. It enabled ...
Where lives and cultures meet
7 March 2016
(LWI) – “We are six people in our tent,” Sory Rasno, 40, says. “At night the wind keeps us awake. There is no privacy, no space. The children start school this year, but they have no place to study. Here we can forget some of our problems.”
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