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Anglican Communion’s work on gender-based violence influences United Nations Human Rights Council

The Anglican Communion’s work on gender-based violence plays a role in informing the work of the United Nations Human Rights Council.

01 July 2024

The International Anglican Women’s Network (IAWN) elects new Chair and Deputy Chair

The International Anglican Women’s Network (IAWN), which serves as a voice of Anglican women, elects a new Chair and Deputy Chair.

27 June 2024

The Revd Canon Dr Mary Alice Medcof (4 March 1935 – 13 July 2023)

The Revd Canon Dr Mary Medcof, a Canadian priest who helped form the International Anglican Women’s Network in 1996, has died.

18 July 2023

Canon Emily Awino Onyango becomes first female Anglican bishop in east & central Africa

Saint Paul’s University lecturer has been appointed to serve as Assistant Bishop in the Anglican Church of Kenya’s Diocese of Bondo.

18 January 2021

Leading anti-GBV campaigner Mandy Marshall to join the Anglican Communion Office team

Anti gender-based violence campaigner Mandy Marshall is to become the new Director for Gender Justice for the Anglican Communion.

05 December 2019

Anglican Communion Office staff lend support to activism against gender-based violence

The Anglican Communion Office is supporting an international campaign against gender-based violence, which starts next week.

22 November 2019

South Sudanese Christian women pray and fast as ecumenical retreat continues at the Vatican

An ecumenical women’s group are gathered in Juba for three days of prayer and fasting as South Sudan’s leaders meet in the Vatican.

11 April 2019

Anglican Communion’s gender-justice champion, Terrie Robinson, to step down

The Anglican Communion’s Director for Women in Church and Society, Canon Terrie Robinson, will step down at the end of May.

08 April 2019

Theologians compile educational resource to help ordinands and seminarians learn about gender justice

New study materials to help Anglican theological colleges teach about just relationships between males and females is being developed.

20 March 2019

International Women’s Day campaign theme #BalanceforBetter welcomed by Anglican women’s network

The International Anglican Women’s Network Steering Group has welcomed the International Women’s Day theme of gender-balance.

07 March 2019