Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID): Recent submissions
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Responsiveness to Religious Inequalities in Contexts of Displacement: Evidence from Providers of Humanitarian Assistance to Shi'a Hazara Refugees from Afghanistan in Pakistan
(CREID (Institute of Development Studies) and Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLIFLC), 2022-07)This paper discusses inequalities caused or exacerbated by religious diversity in displacement and how humanitarian action can be aware of and responsive to this. It is based on interviews with Shi’a Hazara refugees from ... -
Whose Heritage Counts? Narratives of Coptic People’s Heritage
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-12-02)This paper examines whose voices narrate official Coptic heritage, what the in-built biases in representations of Coptic heritage are and why, and some of the implications of omissions in narratives of Coptic heritage. It ... -
Vulnerability and Poverty During Covid-19: Religious Minorities in India
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11)The Covid-19 pandemic has had direct and indirect effects on religiously marginalised groups, exacerbating existing inequities and undermining the ambitions of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to reach (and include) ... -
Vulnerability and Poverty During Covid-19: Religious Minorities in Nigeria
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-11)The Covid-19 pandemic has had direct and indirect effects on religiously marginalised groups, exacerbating existing inequities and undermining ambitions for those ‘furthest behind’ to be reached and supported through the ... -
Preserving Communities' Heritage: A Workbook for Heritage Capturers
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021)This is a practical workbook to guide local communities and heritage gatherers through the process of capturing and storing their heritage for future generations. Through initiatives with the British Academy and the ... -
Understanding Inclusivity of Religious Diversity in Humanitarian Response
(Institute of Development Studies and and Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities (JLI), 2021)This report comes from a review of tools and guidance materials applicable to humanitarian response with regard to their inclusion or exclusion of questions on religious minorities and religious diversity. The authors find ... -
Understanding Intersecting Vulnerabilities Experienced by Religious Minorities Living in Poverty in the Shadows of Covid-19
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-10)The purpose of this study, conducted during the Covid-19 pandemic between November 2020 and March 2021 in India and Nigeria, is to explore the direct and indirect effects of Covid-19 on religiously marginalised groups ... -
Deaf Uzbek Jehovah’s Witnesses: The Case of Intersection of Disability, Ethnic and Religious Inequalities in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-06)This study explores how intersecting identities based on disability, ethnicity and religion impact the wellbeing of deaf Uzbek Jehovah’s Witnesses in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. By analysing the collected ethnographic data and ... -
Freedom of Religious Belief and People with Disabilities: A Case Study of People with Disabilities from Religious Minorities in Chennai, India
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-06)India has a unique and complex religious history, with faith and spirituality playing an important role in everyday life. Hinduism is the majority religion, and there are many minority religions. India also has a complicated ... -
Freedom of Religious Belief and People with Disabilities: Evidence from India
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-06)Around the world, people with disabilities can be the most marginalised in society. Having a disability and being a member of a religious minority or an excluded social group can compound the reasons why some people find ... -
Coalition Building for Better Religious Education Reform
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021)Developing a good pro-pluralism religious education curriculum requires much planning and a deep understanding of the context. In a country like Iraq, where the education system is in decline due to years of conflict, weak ... -
Towards Enriching Understandings and Assessments of Freedom of Religion or Belief: Politics, Debates, Methodologies, and Practices
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01)Promoting the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) is a foreign policy priority for several countries, their concerns accentuated by considerable evidence of rising levels of violations of this right worldwide. ... -
Using Participatory Action Research Methodologies for Engaging and Researching with Religious Minorities in Contexts of Intersecting Inequalities
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01)While there is growing scholarship on the intersectional nature of people’s experience of marginalisation, analyses tend to ignore religion-based inequalities. A lack of Freedom of Religion and Belief (FoRB) undermines ... -
Discrimination, Marginalisation and Targeting of Ahmadi Muslim Women in Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12)Ahmadi Muslims are criminalised for practising their faith in Pakistan which has resulted in widespread discrimination and continuous, sporadic acts of violence leading many to flee their cities or their country altogether. ... -
Experiences of Intersecting Inequalities for Christian Women and Girls in Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12)In Pakistan, where gender-based discrimination is already rampant, women and girls belonging to religious minority or belief communities face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination over and above those faced ... -
Experiences of Intersecting Inequalities for Poor Hindu Women in Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12)Through first-hand accounts of marginalisation and discrimination, the research paper in question explores the reality of life in Pakistan for poor Hindu women and girls who face intersecting and overlapping inequalities ... -
A Multi-layered Minority: Hazara Shia Women in Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12)Shia account for approximately 10–15 per cent of the Muslim population in Pakistan, which has a largely Sunni Muslim population. Anti-Shia violence, led by extremist militant groups, dates to 1979 and has resulted in ... -
A Case of Several Jeopardies: A Study on the Intersecting Inequalities in the Everyday Lives of Poor Minority Christian Women and Girls in Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12)This study is an effort to understand the situation of Christian poor women and girls in Pakistan, to bring poor Christian minority women’s issues to the attention of decision-makers, and to utilise its findings for awareness ... -
The Multi-Layered Minority: Exploring the Intersection of Gender, Class and Religious-Ethnic Affiliation in the Marginalisation of Hazara Women in Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12)The Shia Hazaras in Pakistan are one of the most persecuted religious minorities. According to a 2019 report produced by the National Commission for Human Rights, a government formed commission, at least 509 Hazaras have ... -
Poor Marginalised Hindu Women in Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12)The role of women is vital in the development of family, community, and society. Hindu women in Pakistan are facing multiple obstacles in their daily life. This study analyses the attitudes towards poor Hindu women living ...