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Faith actors vocal in promoting women’s rights

LWF delegates showcase work in panel discussion at Commission on the Status of Women

Faith actors vocal in promoting women’s rights

26 March 2018

LWF delegates showcase work in panel discussion at Commission on the Status of Women (LWI) The voices of the LWF and other faith-based organizations (FBO) have been heard at a parallel event to this year’s 62 session of the UN’s Commission on the Status ...

Proud to tell people LWF has a gender justice policy

23 March 2018

LWF Council Member Ranjita Borgoary writes about what it means to participate United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women A woman from a village never dreams of participating in a UN meeting. But a dream has come true.

Half of humanity activating its rights

19 March 2018

LWF delegate Larry José Madrigal blogs from the world’s largest gathering on women’s human rights The United Nations is a metaphor for the world in all its diversity, complexity and contradiction.

Fair living and working conditions for women

26 February 2018

Women in Central Western Europe discuss the gender gap and “MeToo”

Precious in God’s Eyes

25 November 2017

16 days of activism to overcome gender based violence (LWI) The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is encouraging church leaders to speak up publicly against gender-based violence. Joining the interfaith campaign “Precious in God’s Eyes,” LWF leaders have ...

“The Reformation must continue”

17 November 2017

LWF President Musa speaks to VELKD General Synod

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...