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Helene Fisher, Global Gender Persecution Specialist at Open Doors International, joins the Middle East File podcast to discuss Invisible: The Gender Report 2022. the latest gender specific religious persecution report from Open Doors. The report was featured in the Middle East File | 14. 

Over the past five years, this report from Open Doors has helped shine light on the particular ways in which religious persecution impacts women and girls, distinct from men and boys, and how that help to inform policy and practice in the efforts to protect the religious freedom of all people. 

Related:

• Hear Her Cries: The kidnapping, forced conversion and sexual victimisation of Christian women and girls by ACN
• Violence and Discrimination against Women of Religious Minority Backgrounds in Pakistan by Jaffer Mirza, M.K, Mariz Tadros, Maryam Kanwer, Naumana Suleman, Sadiqa Sultan, Seema Rana Maheshwary (CREID)
• Live What You Believe: Building Bridges Between Gender Equality And Religious Freedom by Shirin Taber, Jasmine Ljungberg, Nancy Sawyer Schraeder (Empower Women Media)
• Gender Specific Religious Persecution Hansard Debate by Jim Shannon MP, et al. (UK Parliament)
• The Forgotten Women: Persecuted Women and Girls from Religious Minorities by Open Doors and ACN UK (Video event)

To learn more about the Religious Freedom Institute and find more of the Middle East File podcast visit: https://www.religiousfreedominstitute.org/middle-east