Events

Unholy Alliance: Women, Race, Faith and The Far Right

Faith & VAWG Coalition Annual Conference | 30 June 2026 | London (venue TBC)

The far right is using faith as a weapon. Against women. Against racialised and minoritised communities. Against the very services trying to protect them. Is our pushback doing enough? Could faith literacy help supercharge our resistance?

Over 100 women's rights organisations — led by EVAW, Southall Black Sisters and Women for Refugee Women wrote to the Prime Minister in 2025 concerned that far-right groups and mainstream politicians are weaponising violence against women and girls to advance a racist, anti-migrant agenda. We see it in attacks motivated by islamophobia and antisemitism that are immediately being co-opted by far-right politicians.

Our conference will explore how faith literacy can enable us to resist; how practitioners can identify when and how religion is being co-opted in the cases they work on; how funders can address this moment; and how we can resource ourselves to overcome division and hopelessness. This conference exists to build that capacity across our sector, and to turn it into collective action.

Unholy Alliance is a full-day conference for VAWG practitioners, funders, policy advocates, campaigners and faith community leaders. Whatever your background or your relationship to religion, if you are trying to protect women and dismantle the systems that harm them, this is for you.

Tickets are £5 to help us plan catering and reduce food waste. If the fee is a barrier, contact us at hello@faithandvawg.org.uk.

Speakers & Venue TBC.

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