Women of Other Faiths
Using common values contained in their respective teachings, women of all religious traditions can work together and collaborate in many areas especially peace building and women’s empowerment. Collectively women of all faiths can learn from each other’s struggles and histories, while showing support for women’s religious leadership roles worldwide. Please contribute to this archive by suggesting women of all faiths to be featured through our recommendation form.
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Dr. Kusumita P. Pedersen, PhD
It is useful to bear in mind that “human rights” is not merely an ethical theme, such as “justice”, and is also not sim¬ply a style of moral discourse, such as “rights language”. Human rights is now a system of international law.
Dr. Kusumita P. Pedersen, PhD
Faith: Christianity
Country: United States
About
Chair of the Department of Religion at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Pedersen has been involved for over twenty-five years with the international interfaith movement. Her academic interests include interreligious dialogue and cooperation, global ethics, and human rights.
Previously, she has been Executive Director of the Project on Religion and Human Rights, a group that provides a forum for study and advocacy and collaborates with academic resources and public policy centers to ensure that religion is included in the promotion of human rights; Joint Secretary for Religious Affairs of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human Survival and Executive Direction of the Temple of Understanding which is involved with interfaith education and supporting the U.N.
Currently, she is co-Chair of the Interfaith Center of New York which seeks to create understanding and respect between the different religious groups that can be found in New York City. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions which hopes to establish harmony and engagement between the world’s religions.
Dr. Pedersen has concentrated for much of her life to promoting interfaith dialogue and understanding and wrote for The World’s Religions After September 11 which highlights the changes in the relationships between the faiths that are occurring into the 21st century.
