UKWFN presented the ‘Gender Equality Empowerment for All’ Symposium and the launch of the “Dialogue to Action” Toolkit
On 15th June 2023, a diverse group of people from different faith and belief traditions gathered together both in-person at the St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Peace and Reconciliation and online to participate in the UKWFN Symposium, marking the culmination of past projects as well as putting heads together to discuss ways forward.
We welcomed speakers from our Women in Religious Scriptures webinars, our Youtube channel feature their talks https://www.youtube.com/playlist... . We also invited Male Allies from 16 Days against Gender-based Violence campaign to share their thoughts, you can catch their discussions also on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist... In the afternoon UKWFN announced the From Dialogue to Action Toolkit and went into workshops to take participants through our project methodology and shared views (download here https://www.rfpuk.org/resources/202306TOOLKIT.pdf and participants in-person or online were first given a run through of how to bring the Dignity of Women exhibition (download here https://www.rfpuk.org/resources/DignityExhibition.pdf and the related discussions to their own communities. All participants discussed how they would untilise the ‘From Dialogue to Action’ Toolkit and how the workshop we ran will be helpful to them.
The Toolkit may be accessed here https://www.rfpuk.org/resources/202306TOOLKIT.pdf