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Congressional Staff Briefing – Women and Religious Freedom: Synergies and Opportunities <\/h1>\n

Please join the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) for a briefing on Capitol Hill on the synergies and opportunities for defending and promoting women’s right to equality and international religious freedom. This briefing will take place on\u00a0Friday, March 16, from 9:30 – 10:30 AM in room 2400 of the Rayburn House Office Building.<\/p>\n

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On Friday, March 16, USCIRF held a briefing on Capitol Hill on the synergies and opportunities for defending and promoting women’s right to equality and international religious freedom.<\/p>\n

A common misperception persists that women\u2019s rights to equality and to freedom of religion or belief are clashing human rights. Yet the two are interrelated and indivisible. Religious freedom is an individual right, not a right of \u201creligion.\u201d It cannot be used to justify harmful practices that violate women and girls\u2019 rights such as early or forced marriage, trafficking in women and girls, gender-based violence, or legal inequality, because the assertion of one human right cannot be used to extinguish other rights.\u00a0 In fact, religious freedom can play a role in responding to these harmful practices by mobilizing faith-based actors and creating space for individuals to interpret their religion or belief in harmony with others\u2019 rights. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

In this briefing, Dwight Bashir<\/strong><\/a>, Director of Research and Policy at USCIRF, and Elise Goss-Alexander,\u00a0Researcher at USCIRF, discussed findings from the Commission\u2019s report, \u201cWomen and Religious Freedom: Synergies and<\/a> <\/a>Opportunities<\/a>,\u201d and recommendations for U.S. government action.<\/p>\n

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