Religion and inclusion: Allies or enemies?
Nicolas Panotto, Argentine theologian, explores in this blog how religion and faith can be allies for the inclusion of LGBTQI+ people in the fight for human rights and against gender-based violence.

Nicolas Panotto, Argentine theologian, explores in this blog how religion and faith can be allies for the inclusion of LGBTQI+ people in the fight for human rights and against gender-based violence.
Donna Nyadete explains the impactful work she leads at Trócaire Zimbabwe, engaging men through faith to challenge gender norms, question old assumptions, learn to recognise consent, and begin to see equality not as a threat but as a strength.
This blog post by Dr. Nana Afua Y. Brantuo explores how faith help migrants, refugeed and forcibly displaced people to cope with experiences of GBV and trafficking, highlighting the need to incorporate faith and religion in survivor-centred approaches.
This blog post summarises the key mechanisms needed to address online violence against Women Human Rights Defenders. They were shared by a panel of experts from lawmakers to community leaders during the Session 3 of the TFGBV Policy Dialogues, organised by UN Women and SVRI's TFGBV CoP.
In the fourth blog of the Faith & GBV CoP series, Palikena Kaude explores the intersection between gender-based violence, teenage pregnancy and HIV in Malawi derived from limited socio-economic opportunities and restricted access to sexual and reproductive services.
This blog post by Tendai Ganduri – the third of the Faith & GBV series – examines how climate disasters affect sexual freedoms and gender roles shaped by religious and traditional value systems, drawing on fieldwork from Chimanimani, Zimbabwe, and the Pinetown informal settlement in South Africa.
The second session of the TFGBV Policy Dialogue Series, co-hosted by UN Women and the SVRI CoP on TFGBV, brought together governments, regulators, feminist activists, and researchers to tackle how to move from global commitments to effective national action that protects women and marginalised communities online?
This blog by members of Womanity and the Center on Gender Equity and Health at the University of California San Diego explores how to create equitable partnerships for VAWG prevention.
Nathan Msomi, member of WG1 of the Faith & GBV CoP, unpacks the ways in which men participate in and perpetuate gender-based violence through complicit masculinity — remaining silent while benefiting from male privilege.
This blog post explores the history of sexual violence in Malawi and how custom, social norms, Christianity, and colonisation transformed the conceptualisation of rape, and therefore women's body autonomy and sexual rights, throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.