International: "Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms" - An AWID advocacy research project
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AWID This initiative, builds on the work of AWID's "Challenging Fundamentalisms" website project which was a joint project with Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) and Rights and Democracy.
Women's rights advocates have done considerable work detailing how religious fundamentalisms impact on women's rights, such as the demand for regressive reform of family law in Muslim contexts or the rise of the Christian evangelical movement in the United States. There has also been some documentation of strategies to resist and challenge religious fundamentalisms. However, there has yet to be feminist research which synthesizes the broad trends of the impact of religious fundamentalisms on women's rights and lives, that is cross-comparative across religions and regions which is credible, accessible and widely shared. We also need a greater in-depth and cross-comparative documentation of concrete examples of strategies being used by women to resist and challenge religious fundamentalisms.
