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Gender Justice

LWF Staff and participants in the event to launch the new study on gender justice. Photo: LWF/Naomi Mbise

LWF launches new study on gender justice

Celebrating best practices, highlighting areas of improvement

Gender
News
30 Sep 2025
LWF Beijing Plus 30 cover

Towards true gender equality

Justice
Gender
Document
22 Sep 2025
Sue Edison-Swift of the ELCA, one of the Lutheran delegates at the Beijing World Conference on Women, holds a placard during a march in July 2025. Photo: P. Edison-Swift
23 Sep 2025

Towards True Gender Equality 1995-2025

Justice
Gender
Event
Nelly Neema, LWF Gender Advisor, in discussion with a farmers group during a field visit in Gally Anoui, Chad. Funded by GAC, the "Gender Transformative Climate Adaptation" is implemented by LWF in the Lake Chad Basin, covering regions in both Cameroon and Chad. Photo: LWF/ M. Renaux

Speaking out on violence against women and girls in Chad

Chadian women's rights defenders raise issues at CEDAW briefing

Justice
News
11 Jul 2025
Fer Ghanaa Ansari from Musawah speaks at the side event about the reformation of Muslim family law. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner-Meyer

A faith perspective on women’s rights at the Human Rights Council

"God’s gift of human dignity and gender justice”

Justice
News
02 Jul 2025
Representatives from LWF member churches in Latin America and the Caribbean and from North America gathered for a Leadership Conference of the Americas on 13-16 May 2025, held under the theme Embodying the Word. Photo: LWF/Albin Hillert

Americas: ‘Embodying the Word’ both a theme and a lived experience

Lutheran church leaders compelled to transform realities of pain into hope 

Churches
News
19 May 2025
Faye Lee, member of LWF delegation at CSW69 which was marking the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action on women’s rights

Working to end child marriage in Malaysia
By
Faye Lee

Gender
Youth
Blog
26 Mar 2025
Members of the LWF delegation to CSW69 in New York. Photo: LWF/P. Hitchen

“Glimmer of hope” as CSW69 concludes in New York

Commission on the Status of Women ends with the adoption of declaration calling for eradication of gender-based violence

Gender
News
24 Mar 2025
Ranan Issa, Director of Gender Justice Ministry for the ELCJHL speaks during a side event at the UN on strategies for family law reform. Photo: ACT/Simon ChambersRanan Issa, Director of Gender Justice Ministry for the ELCJHL speaks during a side event at the UN on strategies for family law reform. Photo: ACT/Simon Chambers

Palestine: Gender equality is a core part of our faith

In this Voices from the Communion, Ranan Issa from Jerusalem talks about her work to strengthen women’s rights

Communion
Churches
News
14 Mar 2025

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