Conversations between practitioners in Iraq, Jerusalem, Jordan/Syria

The event will discuss how Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), life skills training and financial inclusion programming can provide a promising pathway for women to escape poverty in the Middle East and North Africa.

Panelists will also highlight the significant contextual challenges and systemic barriers that exist and how they limit opportunities for women within MENA.

The event will showcase the scope of LWF’s empowerment programming across the region, and celebrate the tenacity of Palestinian, Syrian, Jordanian and Iraqi women to overcome these obstacles and attain their education, career and financial goals.

Participants on this panel will discuss how the abuse of global financial systems negatively impacts women and girls. 

LWF, together with ecumenical partners, ACT Alliance, Norwegian Church Aid and FELM will host this parallel event as part of its engagements at the 68th Commission on the Status of Women. 

The discussion will focus on ways that international tax abuse, as well as other practices that undermine international financial laws, unfairly impact the lives of women and girls. This includes the debt burden on low-income countries, since women disproportionately bear the brunt of fiscal policy failures through many layers of injustice.  

The panel of participants, from different geographic regions, will suggest pathways to tackle the legal gap that facilitates this global scale abuse. The event will also discuss existing initiatives to promote a UN Tax Convention, including one led by the Group of African States at the United Nations. 

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Accelerating the achievement of gender equality through poverty eradication

CSW provides an opportunity to promote women’s rights and call governments to concrete action on gender justice and women’s empowerment.

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is a moment to take stock of progress made in achieving gender equality and to highlight persisting challenges. 33 delegates from LWF member churches and country programs will participate in this annual global event.

The gathering provides civil society, including faith-based organizations, with a space to influence the UN agenda through oral and written statements, to engage with member state delegations and to shape the CSW outcome document. The LWF has worked with partners on three written statements and will participate in five parallel events, plus one side event, as well as conducting visits with government officials.

Participants at the 68th CSW will reflect on the priority theme: ‘Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective’. LWF delegates will share their wide-ranging, grass roots experiences of promoting gender justice and the alleviation of poverty in countries across the globe.

„Zur Freiheit hat uns Christus befreit!“

Das Grundsatzpapier: Gendergerechtigkeit im LWB untersucht eine Vielzahl verschiedener Aspekte dieses Themas: die biblischen und theologischen Grundlagen, Definitionen und Zielsetzung, zehn Schlüsselprinzipien, Methodik für die Umsetzung und kontextbezogene Bewertung.

Es zielt darauf, politische Absichten und Instrumente zu vermitteln, die zur Förderung der Gendergerechtigkeit beitragen, um integrative und nachhaltige Gemeinschaften und Kirchen zu erreichen.

Anlässlich des zehnjährigen Jubiläums wollen wir diesen Meilenstein feiern und den Weg der letzten Jahre zur Umsetzung und Kontextualisierung des Grundsatzpapiers in verschiedenen Mitgliedskirchen nachgehen.

In diesem Webinar werden Referierende aus LWB-Mitgliedskirchen in den Vereinigten Staaten, Brasilien, Hongkong und Palästina über ihre Erfahrungen berichten und die Herausforderungen der Zukunft mit uns erörtern.

• Zoom-Anmeldung

Diese jährliche Kampagne zielt darauf ab, das Bewusstsein für geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt als Menschenrechtsthema auf allen Ebenen zu schärfen und gleichzeitig die lokale Präventions- und Interventionsarbeit zu stärken.  

Während dieser Zeit bietet der Lutherische Weltbund ein Forum, in dem Mitgliedskirchen und Länderprogramme neue und wirksame Strategien zur Überwindung von Gewalt gegen Frauen und Mädchen vorstellen und austauschen können.

Im Rahmen unserer Unterstützung für Kirchen und Länderprogramme schaffen wir Materialien für diese Arbeit sowie Instrumente, um Druck auf Regierungen auszuüben, damit diese ihre Verpflichtungen zur Beseitigung von Gewalt gegen Frauen umsetzen.

„16 Days“ ist eine Kampagne, von der wir hoffen, dass sie als Sprungbrett für die ganzjährige Arbeit zur Beendigung sexueller und geschlechtsspezifischer Gewalt dienen wird.

• Online-Toolkit mit Materialien zu den 16 Aktionstagen (meist auf Englisch)

Building capacity for faith and rights-based advocacy 

Working with ecumenical partners, the World Council of Churches, Norwegian Church Aid and Finn Church Aid, LWF provides participants with an opportunity to explore effective strategies for faith and rights-based advocacy.  

Taking place in Geneva, this training also offers participants the opportunity for practical engagement with UN mechanisms during the course of the week, including the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the (Universal Periodic Review (UPR). 

In addition, the diverse backgrounds of participants lay the foundations for effective networking, peer learning and sharing.

Engaging faith actors to effectively prevent, mitigate and respond to sexual and gender-based violence

Lutheran World Federation, in collaboration with World Vision (WV) Episcopal Relief and Development, Tearfund, UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, and Vista Hermosa Foundation are convening this half day event which will appreciate promising initiatives and programming that is integrating faith into SGBV prevention/mitigation/response, with some extra attention to those being implemented in emergencies.

The event will engage civil society organizations, multilateral organizations, donors, researchers, and other faith and secular actors to network and collaborate with one another to end SGBV.