Institute’s Hayward Discusses Human Rights at State
Susan Hayward, a senior program officer in USIP’s Religion and Peacemaking Center of Innovation spoke at the Marshall Center at the Department of State at a December 11 event marking International Human Rights Day.
Susan Hayward, a senior program officer in USIP’s Religion and Peacemaking Center of Innovation spoke at the Marshall Center at the Department of State at a December 11 event marking International Human Rights Day. Panelists discussed the intersection of women's rights and religious freedom. Hayward made a presentation on how religious freedom protections create space for women to advance interpretations of religious law that support their participation in public and political life. She offered examples of religious women working as peacebuilders in Colombia and elsewhere whose work for peace—often done in partnership with those of other faiths—empowers them as community leaders within religious frameworks and nurtures an environment of inter-religious respect that can also advance religious freedom.
