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As religious actors and networks of faith-based organisations, who work for the achievement of the Beijing Platform for Action and support the Action Coalitions, we welcome the Generation Equality Forum. We take this opportunity to speak out about our role and recommendations to the UN and its Member States, to the leaders and fellow commitment-makers of the Action Coalitions and the WPS-Humanitarian Action Compact, and to our civil society colleagues.

The World Council of Churches (WCC) and Religions for Peace speak out against gender-based violence and commit to widen religious participation in the Thursdays in Black campaign.

WCC ambassadors of the Thursdays in Black campaign are standing behind a joint statement that urges both awareness and protection from the “dual pandemics” of COVID-19 and gender-based violence.

Report of the general secretary to the Executive Committee, November 2018.

Love Makes All Things New: Introductory Remarks by Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches at the Swedish Ecumenical Weekend, 3-4 November 2018

Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit's address on "Gender Justice: The Vital Element in the Churches’ Journey toward Justice and Peace"

“The Love of Christ Compels Us”: Sermon of the WCC General Secretary Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit in the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam on 23 August 2018

Lecture by the WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit at the summer course offered by the foundation Pro Oriente

In his report to the Executive Committee, WCC general secretary Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit noted that we are living in a time when the purpose and the objectives of the WCC are highly relevant.

Based on these realities, there is a need for a new search for unity, he said. “Through the many dimensions of its work, the WCC contributes to the unity of the church, and the unity that the WCC is able to express, in turn, contributes to the unity of humankind.”