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Germany: The long road to equal rights for women in leadership

Women’s right to vote and their representation in Lutheran synods
Germany: The long road to equal rights for women in leadership
13 February 2019
Women’s right to vote and their representation in Lutheran synods (LWI) - The year 2019 marks 100 years since women obtained the right to vote in Germany. While celebrating this significant anniversary, a new study has shown that the country’s Protestant ...
Participation of women and men is a theological issue
29 November 2018
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony takes up message of Twelfth Assembly (LWI) – For the first time, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony (ELCS) has passed a law to recognize the fundamental issue of gender justice in the composition of church governing ...
LWF’s invitation to “Walk our Talk” and end violence against women and girls
23 November 2018
Program executive Rev. Judith VanOsdol talks about 16-days campaign and gender justice
“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 ...
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
Preventing sexual harassment in the office: from policy to practice
8 March 2018
Commitment to make workplaces safe for all (LWI) - The LWF continues its work to ensure a safe workplace that extends beyond policy to practice.
Fair living and working conditions for women
26 February 2018
Women in Central Western Europe discuss the gender gap and “MeToo”
Knowing Who We Are Key to Ending Gender-Based Violence
1 December 2017
Rev. Dr Faith Kokubelwa Lugazia on the 16 days of activism to overcome Gender-Based Violence Tanzanian theologian Rev. Dr Faith Kokubelwa Lugazia says churches that remain silent in the face of gender injustice are renouncing their prophetic role and she ...
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
Global churches act together for climate justice in call to COP23
5 November 2017
The World Council of Churches, ACT Alliance and Lutheran World Federation - together representing more than half a billion Christians worldwide - are issuing a united call for action on climate justice, the largest call of its kind in history.  In a joint ...
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 ...
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