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Civil society takes aim at poor access to SRH information, education and services for the Great Lakes Region’s Adolescents
30 June 2022 For immediate release Civil society takes aim at poor access to SRH information, education and services for the Great Lakes Region’s Adolescents NAIROBI — A new project, launched this week in Nairobi, sets out to improve the…
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Communique on World Refugee Day
We, the members and Friends of Faith to Action Network; Gathered here in Geneva Switzerland attending the International Conference entitled ‘Welcoming the Stranger and Shaping the Future’ ; Acknowledging and celebrating the important World Refugee Day observed on…
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Statement on the Day of the African Child
Faith to Action Network Steering Council and its members would like to join the African Continent and the rest of the world in commemorating the Day of the African Child. The African Committee of…
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State of African Women: Right by Her Report
KENYA, Mombasa, March-11, 2018 - Whilst there are already comprehensive mechanisms in place that document the current status of ratification and domestication of the Maputo Protocol and the Maputo Plan of Action, few explore the pathways through which rights are operationalized in practice through laws, policies, administration, budgets and programs. Apart from a few well known cases, little is known about how Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), including Faith-based organizations (FBOs), influence these pathways and the challenges they face in mediating between duty bearers and rights holders. Download
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Statement By Faith and Cultural Leaders to the 1st EAC Round Table on Investing in Health
Kampala, Uganda (21 February 2018) - We, the faith and cultural leaders from the EAC Partner States,under the auspices of Faith to Action Network, have joined the EAC Heads of State Summit on Investment in Health of 2018 to deliberate on the major public health transformations fueled by changing human-animal environmental interactions, population dynamics and socio-economic development. Download
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Toward Prosperity: The Role of Women and Men in Building a Flourishing World Civilization
The Baha’i Community has made significant contributions on the global arena’s process of empowering women and creating a world of equality between the genders. The community issued a powerful statement as a follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and to the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”. The statement affirmed a spiritual truth where women and men are equal, but acknowledged that this truth has been suppressed throughout history. It underscores the importance of the family as a crucial social environment within which formative education takes place and calls on societies not to exclude women from meaningful participation in work should they decide to dedicate a focused period of their lives to the rearing of children. Download
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