Upholding the Inviolable Dignity of Women & Girls

Religions for Peace advances common action among the world’s religious communities for peace. Attaining lasting peace requires action to confront violence and advance shared security.

• Violence against women causes horrific physical, psychological and spiritual suffering and too often, it kills.
• Religions for Peace advances the concern for wellbeing of all persons, particularly those who are most vulnerable, a concept of shared security found in every religion.
• Religious leaders and people of faith must act now to restore and defend the inviolable dignity of women and girls. 

Different Faiths, Common Action— While respecting religious differences, Religions for Peace is aligning faith communities around the shared concern that in order to advance shared security and peace for all, there is need to end violence against women. 

Restoring Dignity draws on the commitment and resources of faith congregations, institutions, and communities of believers of diverse faith traditions—Baha’i, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Shinto, Taoist, Zoroastrian, and Indigenous—to bring an end to violence against women. Actions by religious leaders and communities of faith can weave fabrics of respect for all persons, their potential, and their right to live a life free from violence.
 
Common Goals—Restoring Dignity aims at mobilizing religious communities and leaders for common action to end violence against women through:

Awareness: Increasing awareness on violence against women and girls and the need to address it.

Education: Deepening understanding on the different forms of violence against women & share knowledge on the religious & spiritual teachings & principles to end it.

Advocacy: Joining voices with survivors, women and men of faith, youth, the United Nations and other non-faith actors to advocate on prevention, addressing impunity and ensuring security for women and girls.

Religions for Peace invites you to join in Interfaith prayer in your place of worship. You may use this prayer, adapt it, or develop your own.

As we gather in faith and action to promote a more secure and peaceful world, we pray to challenge ourselves and strengthen our voices, in collaboration with others, to end violence against women. As people of faith, we stand united to affirm our roles in educating, advocating and preventing violence against women and girls. We pray that we may open hearts and minds to support women and girls. We draw our actions from our deeply shared spiritual assets and religious resources of the inviolable dignity of every human person. Where there is challenge or despair, may we hold to hope and inspire vision as we act together for peace to end violence against women.