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Religious Actors: Ally or Threat for Achieving Gender Equality?

The PaRD Gender Equality and Empowerment work-stream invites to a Pre-Event to Generation Equality Forum and the High Level Political Forum on 28th June, launching a new report co-published by PaRD members.

The PaRD Gender Equality and Empowerment work-stream warmly invites you to this Pre-Event to Generation Equality Forum and the High Level Political Forum.

Title:  Religious Actors: Ally or Threat for Achieving Gender Equality?

Monday 28th June 2021, 08:30 – 10:00 EDT (New York City) / 14:30 – 16:00 CEST (Geneva),

Register via Eventbrite

Opening remarks: Khushwant Singh, Head of PaRD Secretariat

During the event, the work-stream is going to launch a new report titled: Looking Back to Look Forward: The Role of Religious Actors since the Beijing Declaration. The report is co-published by ACT Alliance, Act Church of Sweden, Side by Side, Islamic Relief Worldwide, Joint Learning Initiative on Faith Communities, SVRI, Goldsmiths and PaRD.

PaRD Launching new report: Dr. Nora Khalaf-Elledge, Post-Doc Fellow, Joint Learning Initiative

Panel: Zainah Anwar, Executive Director, Musawah Karin Ericsson, Programme Specialist Gender Equality, Sida Umyra Ahmad, Advancing Universal Rights and Justice Coordinator, AWID Dr. Nontando Hadebe, International Coordinator, Side by Side

Moderator: Shahin Ashraf MBE, Head of Global Advocacy, Islamic Relief Worldwide

Additionally, we’ve invited a live illustrator and there will be room for Q&A.