Events

INAUGURAL FORUM ON FoRB AND INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT – 11 JUNE 2019
FoRB CONFRENCE AT THE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (AIT) BANGKOK 2019
FORUM FOR FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR BELIEF AND INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT 2019

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Featured December 7, 2022
Inequality, injustice and violence: experiences of women from Iraq’s diverse ethnic and religious communities

Join us ahead of Genocide Prevention Day to listen to women from Iraq’s diverse ethnic and religious communities who share their research and experiences of historical and contemporary injustices and how communities are mobilizing for recognition and redress. These communities still bear the scars of…

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Event December 6, 2022
Tackling poverty and protecting freedom of religion or belief: lessons for future UK policy and programming

A joint CREID / APPG FoRB event chaired by Fiona Bruce, UK Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief , featuring lessons and highlights…

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Featured October 26, 2022
Launching “What about us”? New eBook on global religious inequalities

We launched of our first eBook What About Us? Global Perspectives on Redressing Religious Inequalities on 26 October. Edited by Mariz Tadros, the book explores how we can make religious equality a reality for those on the margins of society and politics. Watch a video of the…

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Event July 5, 2022
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Hate speech and freedom of religion or belief

Join CREID partners, Minority Rights Group, for the launch of a pioneering toolkit which highlights the dangers of hate speech against those of a faith…

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Event July 5, 2022
Pluralistic and inclusive interfaith approaches to building communities

Join CREID partners, Al-Khoei Foundation, to hear about experience from its Iraq and UK programmes on taking a pluralistic and inclusive approach to building community…

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Event March 31, 2022
Shooting range outside of the Quaraqosh cathedral in Iraq
The Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims: The Need to Collect and Preserve Evidence of Atrocities

Please join CREID partners, His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos and Refcemi, at this hybrid (face-to-face and online) roundtable on the need to collect and preserve evidence…

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Event March 23, 2022 Religious/Belief Identity-based Violence and Gender

This online event is being organised by members of the UK FoRB Forum’s Gender and FoRB (Freedom of Religion or Belief) working group, of which…

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Event March 11, 2022 Russia and Ukraine – a religious war?

CREID and the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University New York, invite you to a virtual panel on Russia and Ukraine – a religious…

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Event February 15, 2022 Remembering Contemporary Martyrs Day

His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos, Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London, and Founder and Director of Refcemi (The Coptic Orthodox Office for Advocacy and Public Policy), invites…

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Event January 19, 2022
Shooting range outside of the Quaraqosh cathedral in Iraq
The Duty to Prevent Genocide and the Need for Domestic Monitoring and Analysis Mechanisms: Lessons from the Missed Opportunities

Join Archbishop Angaelos and Ewelina Ochab from Refcemi as well as Rahima Mahmut (World Uyghur Congress) and Gloria Puldu (Leah Foundation) for this online event…

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Event November 18, 2021
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The evidence we can’t ignore: religious inequality and Covid-19 in India, Nigeria and beyond

This CREID event, opened by Fiona Bruce MP, UK Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief, and Ahmed Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom…

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Event October 26, 2021
Photo: Courtesy of Omaid Sharifi and ArtLords, mural promoting diversity in Afghanistan. The text reads “O homeland! In the end, I will build you. I will build you”.
The Children of an “Infinity of Cultures*” A Human Rights Approach to Cultural Mixing / Les enfants d’une “infinité de cultures”: une approche fondée sur les droits humains au brassage culturel

Watch again: the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Karima Bennoune, and the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID), in…

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Event September 30, 2021 #Incite! Identifying and challenging online hate speech

Webinar sharing pioneering research from Iraq and Pakistan on hate speech targeting religious minorities and approaches to countering this. Watch again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KG-fdhCL7k Around the world…

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Event June 23, 2021
Redressing religious inequality for people with disability

This online event shared new research on experiences of disability and being a member of a religious minority, including examples from India and Uzbekistan. We…

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Event March 25, 2021 The situation of religious minorities in Syria

Over recent years, religious minorities in Syria have faced various challenges, including the Syrian Civil War and Daesh, especially after Daesh established the self-proclaimed caliphate…

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Event November 25, 2020
In our own words, discrimination and violence against women of religious minority backgrounds in Pakistan

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, we are launching new research and bringing together both an expert panel of international…

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Event June 26, 2020
How can we address religious inequalities in a post-Covid-19 transition?

Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, Rehman Chishti, opened this event which discussed what needs to be done to address religious…

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Event January 23, 2020 What about us? Intersecting inequalities around gender and religion or belief

The theory of intersectionality asserts that people are often disadvantaged by multiple sources of identifiers operating in relation to one another: ethnicity, class, gender identity,…

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Event November 19, 2019 Humanitarian assistance ‘doing no harm through need not creed’?

This event was the second seminar in the Religious Inequalities in Development series hosted by IDS. A video recording is available to watch. How far…

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Event October 15, 2019 Religious inequalities in development: where need meets creed

This seminar explores why religious and belief-based inequalities are overlooked when it comes to inclusive and sustainable development, as promoted by the SDGs. Religious inequalities refers…

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Event August 22, 2019 Time to address the yawning gap between development and Freedom of Religion or Belief

Excerpt from an interview with Professor Rebecca Shah, from the Religious Freedom Institute, taken during the Forum on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Inclusive…

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Event August 22, 2019 Listening to each other’s experience, across sectors and communities

Excerpt from interviews with Katherine Thane, Senior Researcher & Policy Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Kit Dorey, Bond…

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Event August 22, 2019 Understanding the relationship between poverty, marginalisation and extremism

Excerpt from interviews with Dr Dawood Hamzah and Rev Bonnie Evans, UK Coalition, UN Office for Genocide Prevention. These interviews took place during the Forum…

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