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CA-3-P006481002 2026-07-14T06:32:38 This project aims to promote gender equality and social inclusion of women, sexual orientation, and gender identity minorities, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons. It addresses injustices, conflicts, tensions, and human rights violations associated with freedom of religious belief. Project activities include: (1) supporting the efforts of the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief (‘the Rapporteur’) in exploring these issues for his report to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2020; (2) providing logistical and technical support for the Rapporteur’s engagement with actors working in Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa; (3) supporting a comparative study of the legal frameworks to enumerate the right to freedom of religion or belief and the human rights of women, girls, sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) minorities. The study also supports efforts in examining and reporting on possible existing tensions; and (4) mapping initiatives of UN offices, agencies and mechanisms that work on the promotion of Freedom of Religious Belief (FoRB) in the context of non-discrimination, especially efforts to tackle tensions engendered by religious beliefs and practices that may promote or harm the human rights of women, girls and SOGI minorities. Closed 2019-03-01T00:00:00 2020-01-31T00:00:00 Brooklyn College – City University of New York Human rights 100.00% 111488.65 The expected outcome of this project include: (1) improved effectiveness of the special procedures to identify challenges facing governments in promoting gender equality and combatting discrimination involving religion or belief. Results achieved as of April 2020 include: (1) a draft final report synthesising findings from all the workshops for the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief and (2) three workshops and reports, one with a regional focus, and two with a country focus. Project-type interventions Bilateral Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation Global Affairs Canada YFMInternaAssistPartnershp&Programing Br Foreign Affairs and Trade Gs&Cs Gender equality Developing countries, unspecified 11806.00 2019201038 Brooklyn College – City University of New York CA-3-P006481001 111488.65 75000.00