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Friday, December 5, 2014

Calling on Faith to Defend Women's Rights Religious leaders, scholars, and activists from several continents participated in a human rights forum at The Carter Center in June 2013 to explore the role that religious leaders can play in ending gender-based violations of human rights

http://www.cartercenter.org/video/Default.aspx?youtube_id=4Zj30a10S8Q&category=Peace&filter=Human%20Rights

Zainah Anwar, a Muslim activist said " God cannot be God if God is unjust... If we are equal in the eyes of God, how come we are not equal in the eyes of man." 
Sister Simone Campbell stressed that we must hear from women's lived experiences if we are to engage as equals in the world. 

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