Seven Pointers for Development Actors Navigating Religious Fundamentalisms and Women’s Rights
| By Ayesha Imam, Shareen Gokal and Isabel Marler
Religious fundamentalisms are gaining ground within communities, political systems, international arenas with devastating effects for ordinary people, and for women in particular. There is an urgent need to resist religious fundamentalist advances, and development actors are in a position to take a strong role in this.
This two-page brief suggests concrete ways that development actors can take action to avoid strengthening religious fundamentalist groups and ideologies. It proposes that development actors and women’s movements work together to address this problem.