Women in Church and Society
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“Cooperation is a strength and a powerful signal”

Partnership welcomed between FBOs and UN on women’s rights
“Cooperation is a strength and a powerful signal”
10 July 2018
Partnership welcomed between FBOs and UN on women’s rights (LWI) - Lutheran World Federation (LWF) General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge has said faith-based organizations and the UN’s committee on the elimination of discrimination against women (CEDAW) ...
Putting women’s rights on the UN agenda
5 July 2018
Faith organizations learn UN mechanisms to promote women (LWI) - Feminist faith actors will be critical to ensuring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are implemented, the director of the UN Women liaison office in Geneva has told a women’s human ...
Finding justice in context
4 June 2018
Bible study at CEC assembly highlights issues of justice and the responsibility of the church
French churches push for gender equality at all levels
1 May 2018
Statement on balance and equity between women and men in the church endorsed
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.
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 ...
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 ...
As people of faith, we must work for women’s empowerment
27 March 2017
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