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AWID
- Association for Women's Rights in Development - 25/11/2010
Towards a Future without Fundamentalisms: New Report
Analyzes Religious Fundamentalist Strategies and Feminist Responses
In the experience of women’s rights
activists around the world, religious fundamentalists strategically use
physical and psychological violence to undermine those who oppose their
policies. Fundamentalist violence can range from highly visible attacks against
abortion doctors or LGBT people to the support of military actions to excusing
domestic violence.
Religious
fundamentalisms are on the rise in every region of the world, and can be found
in every religion. In the experience of 8 out 10 women’s rights activists
worldwide, religious fundamentalisms have had a negative impact on the rights
of women. But activists are fighting back.
In a
ground-breaking new publication, AWID presents feminist strategies of resisting
and challenging religious fundamentalisms, based on research that draws
examples from across regions and different religious traditions. Building on
this extensive research, the report examines the factors that help religious
fundamentalisms grow and the strategies fundamentalists use to promote their
vision and strengthen their social and political power. It unmasks those
strategies through feminist analysis and provides proposals and examples of how
women’s rights activists and their allies in other movements can work
effectively towards a future without fundamentalisms.
Link to
Full Report: Towards a Future without Fundamentalisms.pdf
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