Join the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID), based at the Institute of Development Studies, Ahmed Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, and Fiona Bruce MP, UK Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief to launch new research on how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted religiously marginalised groups, already experiencing intersecting vulnerabilities, in India and Nigeria.

We are launching a new report and two policy briefings which share research which explored how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted religiously marginalised groups, already experiencing intersecting vulnerabilities, in India and Nigeria. Speakers will present findings on both the direct and indirect impacts of Covid-19 and discuss how religious inequalities intersect with other inequalities to shape how people have experienced the pandemic.

Speakers

- Fiona Bruce MP, Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief, UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)
- Ahmed Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Deputy Director of the Essex Human Rights Centre
- Joanna Howard, Research Fellow and Cluster Leader, Participation, Inclusion and Social Change, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)
- Oluwafunmilayo Para-Mallam, Professor of Gender and Development Studies, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Nigeria (tbc)
- Mariz Tadros, Director of the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) and Professor of Politics and Development, Institute of Development Studies (IDS)

Link to RSVP / more information: http://www.creid.ac/the-evidence-we-cant-ignore-religious-inequality-and-covid-19-in-india-nigeria-and-beyond/

“If God didn’t invent human rights - why should religious people support them?”

Join the British Chapter of the International Association for Religious Freedom for an enriching panel discussion and Q&A session with:

• Prof. Vebjørn L. Horsfjord

• Dr Husna Ahamad OBE, CEO of Global One and member of the International Advisory Board of the Commonwealth Initiative for Freedom of Religion and Belief (CiFORB)

• Dr Ramesh Pattni, DPhil (Oxford) OBE is a psychologist and a Hindu theologian whose research is in the intersection of traditions; and,

• Mr Andrew Copson Chief Executive of Humanist UK

Register to join via Zoom: http://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tGQihCurQOuip1JMPHux3A

Zoom Panel Event with SAT-7/Conservative Christian Fellowship (CCF)

“Free to believe?- Is Freedom of Religion Possible?”

What should the British government do to ensure there is freedom of religion and belief?

“A discussion focused on freedom of religion and belief”

Event Date: Monday 4th Oct 2021

Event Time: 12.00pm

Eventbrite Link: CCF Monday Brunch with SAT-7 Tickets, Mon 4 Oct 2021 at 12:00

If you have any queries, please email David Mann at dmann@sat7uk.org

In-person

Panel Event with SAT-7 / Christians on the left (CoTL)

"Free to Believe? - Can Religious Freedom Be Assured?"

Event Date: Monday 27th September 2021

Event Time: 12:30-2pm

Event Venue: St Paul’s Church, 60 West Street, Brighton, BN1 2RS

If you are interested in attending, please email David Mann dmann@sat7uk.org

The International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief

About this event

The Coalition for Genocide Response invites you to a webinar marking

The International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief

4 PM (BST) on 23 August 2021

Register for the webinar here.

In May 2019, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution establishing The International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief to be marked annually on 22 August. The establishment of such a day, however, is not an end goal in itself. This day is intended to provide a springboard towards action that addresses the growing issue of violence based on religion or belief. In recent years, violence based on religion or belief is an ever-growing problem which must be addressed with a number of different and wide-ranging responses.

While marking the UN day, the speakers will discuss required responses to acts of violence based on religion or belief, focusing on how to help individuals and communities after such violence occurs and how to prevent such acts in the future.

The webinar is Co-Chaired by Fiona Bruce MP, Prime Minister's Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief and Dr Ewelina U. Ochab, Co-founder of the Coalition for Genocide Response, author of the initiative to establish the UN day.

Speakers:

Archbishop Angaelos, Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London

Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Peer at the UK House of Lords and Director of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute

Jos Douma, Special Envoy for Religion and Belief, Chair of the International Religious Freedom or Belief Alliance

Nadine Maenza, Chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom

Helen Berhane, Eritrean former prisoner of conscience, advocate.

CREID along with the APPG on FoRB and APPG on Disability, are hosting a free event next week, sharing new research from India and Uzbekistan on the experiences of people living with disabilities who are also members of religious minority groups

Register to attend here

Around the world, people with disabilities can be the most marginalised in society. Having a disability and being a member of a religious minority can exacerbate that marginalisation and social exclusion, including exclusion from financial support, leading to a cumulative impact on poverty and wellbeing.

Join us for this event to hear about the latest international research on this issue, including experiences from India and Uzbekistan, and to discuss the steps that can be taken to strengthen the social inclusion of people living with a disability who are also from minority religious groups, to help them fulfil their potential to fully participate in society on an equal basis.

Co-Chairs

Dr Lisa Cameron MP, Chair of the APPG for Disability

Jim Shannon MP, Chair of the APPG for International Freedom of Religion or Belief

Panel speakers

Brigitte Rohwerder, Research Officer, Institute of Development Studies, co-author of ‘Freedom of Religious Belief and People with Disabilities: Evidence from India’

Stephen Thompson, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, co-author of ‘Freedom of Religious Belief and People with Disabilities: Evidence from India’

Dilmurad Yusupov, PhD Candidate, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

Professor Mariz Tadros, Director, Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID)Register to attend here

The APPHG will meet on the subject of the global persecution of the non-religious and will focus on the experiences of survivors and victims before hearing from experts on non-religious persecution. 

Guest speakers include: 

• Gulalai Ismail, a humanist human rights activist, who fled to the US from Pakistan having been arrested, having her passport confiscated, and then having spent a year in hiding. Gulalai has faced repeated blasphemy accusations and death threats, at one stage suing her accusers

• Bonya Ahmed, a humanist blogger and writer who alongside her husband Avijit Roy was attacked by Islamists with machetes in Dhaka. Avijit was murdered and Bonya survived with serious wounds

• Leo Igwe, founder of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, who has challenged humanist, LGBT, and other forms of persecution across West Africa. He will raise the case of Mubarak Bala, President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, who has been imprisoned since April 2020 for blasphemy

• Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief

To RSVP please email karen@humanism.org.uk.

Lord Alton, the Coalition for Genocide Response and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Eritrea invite you to a webinar entitled:

'A Tigrayan womb should never give birth': The War Waged Against Tigrayan Women.

The panellists will discuss the situation of Tigrayan women, consider the nature of the atrocities and the needed responses.

Link to RSVP / more information: http://rapeintigray.eventbrite.co.uk