Finding local solutions to address local challenges
PaRD Health work-stream calls for expression of interest for Regional Forums in Southern and Eastern Africa as well as Southern Asia.
Religious Actors: Ally or Threat for Achieving Gender Equality?
New report calls for strategic partnerships with religious actors working for gender equality.
PaRD becomes more diverse: Jewish, Sikh and Christian organisations join the partnership
With its new members HIAS Europe, United Sikhs, CASA India, IDEA Africa and IGHD, PaRD marks an important step towards diversification and outreach to the Global South.
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.
Back to the roots: Khushwant Singh übernimmt Sekretariatsleitung der Internationalen Partnerschaft zu Religion und nachhaltiger Entwicklung
Das Sekretariat der Internationalen Partnerschaft zu Religion und nachhaltiger Entwicklung (International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development – PaRD) hat einen neuen Leiter.
PaRD appoints Khushwant Singh as the new Head of Secretariat
The International Partnership on Religion and Sustainable Development (PaRD) has a new Head of Secretariat. With a wealth of experience and expertise in international cooperation and interreligious and multifaith dialogue, Khushwant Singh has been appointed the new Head of Secretariat of PaRD. He takes up the post with clear priorities: to increase diversity among members, expand the participation of governments, especially from the Global South, achieve more tangible results and in so doing contribute to implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations.
JLI: Shift the center of gravity from global to regional
COVID-19 has truly illustrated the diversity and contextualized nature of faith responses, Kirsten Muth, CEO of the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities, says. She is seeing the need for more robust mechanisms for faith engagement at international levels that incorporate responses to this diversity. This is why the recently appointed leader of JLI wants to expand the body of evidence of faith responses at community and national levels. To do so, she wants to build a network of more regional hubs that give priority to the evidence needs and voices from the Global South.
Gender, Religion and Decision-Making in Public Life
Women are not only beneficiaries of the achievement of SDG 5 on Gender Equality and Empowerment. They also need to actively contribute to its continuous implementation. This is one of the key insights of the PaRD CSW65 Side Event on Wednesday.
Grammy-winning songwriter Ani Zonneveld: “In times of COVID-19 people need music and spirituality”
Grammy winning songwriter Ani Zonneveld sees people’s great desire for music during the pandemic, because it’s heart-opening and -healing. With her spiritual songs, the Muslim American singer already tried to heal the wounds after 9/11. The attacks had brought her to the foundation of the US-based NGO and PaRD member “Muslims for Progressive Values”, looking for an Islamic language of Human Rights.
World Council of Churches on World Water Day 2021
PaRD member World Council of Churches hosts an online event on World Water Day 2021 on Spiritual and Ethical Values of Water on 22 March 2021, 15.00 – 16.30 CET.