WCC NEWS: “JUST Talk” will explore critical gender justice issues

The first installment of a new online quarterly seminar, “JUST Talk,” scheduled for 13 June, will explore today’s critical gender justice issues from a faith perspective. Photo: Albin Hillert/Life on Earth Pictures 06 June 2024 Modeled after “TED Talks”—popular videos that explain ideas in an accessible way—“JUST Talk” will feature three different leaders with perspectives on the 12 critical areas flagged in the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action aimed at ensuring greater equality and opportunities for women and men, girls and boys. The seminar, entitled “Critical Engagement: The Beijing Declaration's Critical Areas for Church Women Today,” will launch a series of discussions and engagement on the gender dimension and intersectionality of many of the acute issues we face today. Participants will come away with actions and advocacy needed to be incorporated in individual and ecumenical efforts. Hosted by the World Council of Churches Just Community of Women and Men, the seminar will invite people to be part of an ecumenical network of global actors for gender justice. Speakers will focus on violence against women and girls, and women and environment:       Rev Bafana Khumalo, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Sonke Gender Justice in South Africa and one of the organisation’s co-founders.  Ms Alicia Mondesire, author and gender-consultant, was one of the leading Caribbean representatives to the 1995 4th World Conference on Women, held in Beijing.  Ms Mereani Nawadra, Ecumenical Enabler for a Just & Safe Pacific Communities for Women and Men Programme  Alicia Mondesire (Caribbean) Bafana Khumalo (Africa) Mereani Nawadra (Pacific) Register in advance here  Link to the event page See more

The World Council of Churches promotes Christian unity in faith, witness and service for a just and peaceful world. An ecumenical fellowship of churches founded in 1948, today the WCC brings together 352 Protestant, Orthodox, Anglican and other churches representing more than 580 million Christians in over 120 countries, and works cooperatively with the Roman Catholic Church. The WCC general secretary is Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay from the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa. Media contact: +41 79 507 6363; www.oikoumene.org/press Our visiting address is: World Council of Churches 150 route de Ferney Geneve 2 1211 Switzerland