Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms
About this Initiative
The Nicaraguan Nine march by Gabriela Arguello, courtesy of FIRE
Religious fundamentalisms are on the rise around the world and across religions, with negative consequences for women’s rights. AWID launched the CF initiative in 2007 to strengthen the responses of women’s rights activists to this growing phenomenon.
The CF team conducts innovative research to contribute to greater strategic thinking, dialogue and advocacy on religious fundamentalisms by women’s rights groups. The research has identified the key characteristics of religious fundamentalisms, examined the factors that help them grow, and detailed how they impact women’s rights across regions and religions.
The initiative offers analysis that unmasks and demystifies religious fundamentalisms, and shares strategies that women’s rights activists use to challenge them.
The CF team also supports advocacy, builds alliances with women’s rights, human rights and development organizations and facilitates strategic dialogue on religious fundamentalisms.
In the News
Browse the latest news items on religious fundamentalisms and women’s rights from around the world
- Malawi to overturn homosexual ban, Joyce Banda says
- Kuwait: Court Victory for Women’s Rights - Overturns Ministerial Decision Barring Women From Justice Jobs
- Jailed Iranian lawyer nominated for human rights award
- New IDAHO video
- Women's rights in Mali 'set back 50 years' by new 'Family Code' law
- USA: Montrose Episcopal church will offer same-sex blessings
- USA: Kansas protestors rally against 'Religious Freedom Act'
- USA: Emily Herx, Teacher Claims She Was Fired From Catholic School For In Vitro Fertilization
- USA: Losing the Right to Abortion, Week by Week: Restrictions on Later-Term Abortions Harm Women
- Dispatches from AWID 2012: The New World War? Fundamentalism vs. Human Rights
Appeals and Urgent Actions
Browse the latest appeals and urgent actions related to women resisting fundamentalisms
- Religion & Gender: Identity, Conflict and Power
- Action Alert: One Million Voices for Honduran Women
- Pakistan: Former member of National Assembly issues fatwa against women human rights defenders
- Egypt: Stop Lowering Minimum Age of Girls for Marriage
- Assessing the human rights conditions of sexual and gender minorities in Kenya
- CEDAW for Change: One Week Intensive Institute
- International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia
- Lebanon: Call for Applications - The 5th CSBR Sexuality Institute
- Romania: Sign the petition - Draft Law threatens to impose barriers on women's access to legal abortion services
- Afghanistan: End the Unlawful Criminalisation of Women and Girls Based on ‘Moral Grounds’
Facing Fundamentalisms
Facing Fundamentalisms Newsletters
Here you will find an archive of the Facing Fundamentalisms newsletters, featuring updates, analysis and resources about challenging religious fundamentalisms from around the world.
Articles, Analysis and Interviews
Browse the latest articles, analysis and interviews on religious fundamentalisms and women’s rights
- Vatican City: Legion Of Christ Priest, Rev. Thomas Williams, Admits He Fathered Child
- USA: Ultra-Orthodox Shun Their Own for Reporting Child Sexual Abuse
- Michael Oren pinkwashes the truth about Israel and gay Palestinians
- USA: Obama gay marriage endorsement mobilizes Christian conservatives
- Argentina Gender Rights Law: A New World Standard
- Who Is the Authentic Arab Woman?
- USA: Where's Your Shame, Woman?! Fundamentalist Pastor Takes to YouTube to Fault Women for All Social Ills
- Sri Lanka: Is Dambulla, Babri Masjid Redux?
- Zainah Anwar: Arab Spring opens window of opportunity for women in Mideast
- Women still have a ways to go