The Archbishop of the Province of the Anglican Church of Burundi, the Most Rev. Bernard Ntahoturi, and the Archbishop of the Anglican Church of Rwanda, the Most Rev. Onesphore Rwaje, have co-hosted an interdenominational conference for Church leaders in collaboration with UNAIDS and Tearfund in Burundi’s capital, Bujumbura, to consider the role of the Church in the fight against sexual violence in Burundi and Rwanda.
05 September 2011
The Province of the Anglican Church of Congo (PEAC) has actively participated in the two day workshop at the Pallottin Centre in Goma on the Church’s response to the challenge of gender-based sexual violence.
05 September 2011
The Anglican Church of Southern Africa will next week officially join an international campaign to end violence against women and girls known as the White Ribbon Pledge campaign.
05 August 2011
Address given by Mugisa Isingoma, UFPPS convener, to the launch event of Tearfund’s report ‘Silent No More: The untapped potential of the church in addressing sexual violence’ at Lambeth Palace, London, on 21 March 2011
08 April 2011
The commitment by Primates at the January meeting in Dublin to work to eliminate violence against women and girls has been warmly welcomed by the Communion’s International Anglican Women’s Network (IAWN).
28 March 2011
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, today welcomed senior church leaders and international development agencies at Lambeth Palace to pledge that the church will play a part in ending sexual violence and to launch a Tearfund report 'Silent No More'.
22 March 2011
In August 2010, the Litoral Diocese of the Episcopal Church of Ecuador held a workshop covering the theme 'Domestic Violence in our Ecuadorian society'. The workshop looked at types and characteristics of violence in the family, and the factors that underlie this violence in the Ecuadorian context, such as cultural values, personal history and psycho-social environment.
10 January 2011
“Violence against women is the most pervasive human rights violation in the world” is a sentiment spoken by Kofi Annan and echoed by almost every human rights organization, the United Nations, and countless other NGOs around the world.
04 October 2010