In honour of International Women’s Month 2026, women connected to KAICIID’s dialogue networks reflect on the barriers still holding women and girls back in their communities, the action already underway and the urgent need to turn formal commitments into meaningful change. 

From a volunteer facilitator in Bangkok to convenor of a regional youth network, Kenny Lloyd Lucina Angon demonstrates what happens when KAICIID's mandate meets a leader who transforms dialogue into tangible change.

Following last year’s 6th European Policy Dialogue Forum (EPDF), in Geneva, the International Dialogue Centre – KAICIID has launched the ‘Creating Change from the Inside Out’, a grant scheme supporting local initiatives that strengthen trust, participation and mutual understanding in Europe’s diverse urban communities.

As discrimination, hate speech and identity-based violence continue to rise globally, a group of diplomats, UN officials, religious leaders and civil society representatives gathered in New York to reflect on how interreligious dialogue, grounded in human rights, can strengthen peaceful coexistence and prevent violence.