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Freedom of religion and belief is crucial to any sustainable development process, yet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pay little attention to religious inequalities.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of how efforts to achieve SDGs can be enhanced by paying greater attention to freedom of religion and belief. In particular, it illustrates how poverty is often a direct result of religious prejudice and how religious identity can shape a person’s job prospects, their children’s education and the quality of public services they receive. Drawing on evidence from Asia, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, the book foregrounds the lived experiences of marginalized communities as well as researchers and action organizations.
Belief systems profoundly influence people’s health and wellbeing and shape how patients, nurses and doctors engage with health questions and healthcare systems. This is something the authors of this chapter, both children’s doctors in the UK, and both first-generation immigrants (from India and Iraq) – have learnt first-hand and deal with in our day-to-day work and research.
With this short chapter, which cannot do justice to the full complexity of the issue, our aim is to provide an opportunity for reflection. Unrestrictedly infusing our own views, we draw on experience from several decades working at the ‘coalface’ of medicine in our home and adopted country settings.
This chapter describes a project to address a pressing sustainable development issue, access to clean drinking water in Joseph Colony in Pakistan, an area populated by the socio-economically excluded Christian minority. The project shows how discrimination in access to water intersected with the broader issue of religious discrimination that minority communities of Pakistan face on a daily basis. The chapter explains how a project sought to address this disparity in access to water in a community-sensitive way.
Although there is a significant body of work exploring uneven SDG gains resulting from digital inequalities experienced by marginalized groups, the implications for religious ethnic minorities have not been addressed. This chapter outlines five mechanisms which may result in religious and ethnic minorities being less likely to benefit from digitalization: lack of internet access, increased likelihood to experience barriers once online, greater risk of online hate speech, internet shutdowns, and automated discrimination.
Inclusive reporting is a significant tool in highlighting inequalities in the provision of health services to the unheard communities of Iraq. The Iraqi mainstream media deals with underprivileged groups as numbers, not as human beings. Inclusive and objective reporting privileging the voices of minorities will greatly contribute towards exposing injustice, holding local officials accountable in healthcare provision. Eventually, objective and inclusive reporting will help to empower Iraq’s minority communities, enhancing solidarity across Iraq’s diverse communities.
Freedom of religion and belief is crucial to any sustainable development process, yet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pay little attention to religious inequalities.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of how efforts to achieve SDGs can be enhanced by paying greater attention to freedom of religion and belief. In particular, it illustrates how poverty is often a direct result of religious prejudice and how religious identity can shape a person’s job prospects, their children’s education and the quality of public services they receive. Drawing on evidence from Asia, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, the book foregrounds the lived experiences of marginalized communities as well as researchers and action organizations.
Freedom of religion and belief is crucial to any sustainable development process, yet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pay little attention to religious inequalities.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of how efforts to achieve SDGs can be enhanced by paying greater attention to freedom of religion and belief. In particular, it illustrates how poverty is often a direct result of religious prejudice and how religious identity can shape a person’s job prospects, their children’s education and the quality of public services they receive. Drawing on evidence from Asia, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, the book foregrounds the lived experiences of marginalized communities as well as researchers and action organizations.
SDG5 is the stand-alone goal focused on the promotion of gender equality, while the expectation is that all other SDGs would also be gender-sensitive in their application. However, the relationship between women’s right to gender equality and freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) in development hardly features in academic scholarship. The first part of this chapter will review some of the key academic and grey literature sources on the FoRB-gender equality nexus. The second part will then adopt a FoRB-lens onto gender equality with respect to the indicators drawn for SDG5, drawing primarily on the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) programme’s scholarship.
At first, ‘religion’ and ‘health’ seem to be an easy match, and therefore religion and religiously affiliated and motivated entities and efforts would seem to carry obvious potential towards the achievement of the massive third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG3): ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages, as well as the array of other health-related SDG targets and indicators. This chapter considers whether and how ‘religious inequality’ might affect progress on the health-related SDGs.
Protecting and promoting this heritage in contemporary culture will create safe communication spaces between diverse groups of people. This chapter describes the restoration of the ancient city of Mosul’s multicultural heritage after the liberation of the city from ISIS’ occupation. The cultural recovery of Mosul can be an essential step toward a full-scale reconciliation, to building trust for the Christians and Yazidis to be able to return to Mosul, and to ensuring a safe and peaceful future.
