Religious concerns, positions, and services vary significantly according to the religion itself, as well as per country, region, and situation. Issue… - Azza Karam

We need these Interreligious Councils to be strengthened so they can serve the shared well-being of their nations effectively and in a timely manner.

Over the years the RfP has supported, facilitated and guided the establishment of 70 national Interreligious Councils and five regional Interreligious Councils from around the world. Each council brings together the leadership of the various religions in a manner reflective of the local religious demography, and they act as entities which create an inter-religious space within each nation’s civic infrastructure.

What is now transpiring with women’s rights in Egypt—and elsewhere in the Arab region—is a continuation of the struggle for gender equality within the emerging political framework, which is part and parcel of the larger effort to safeguard all human rights in the new polity that is now being collectively fashioned.