Section outline

  • Introduction

     

                                                                                                                                    Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; ​this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief ​in teaching, practice, worship, and observance. Violations of freedom of religion or belief have a devastating impact on individuals, communities, and societies.

    SMC and the FORB Learning Platform offer free courses, learning resources, and training materials for individuals, communities, organizations, and decision-makers. These resources cater to personal study, staff training, and can be used by educators and facilitators for both young people and adults.

    The FORB learning platform aims to foster a culture of freedom of religion or belief at all levels—from grassroots to the top. It emphasizes the importance of human rights in achieving peace, stability, and development, promoting acceptance of rights for all despite differences. The resources are available in multiple languages and are developed in collaboration with specialists and individuals from various religious and belief backgrounds.







  • FORB Capacity development and coaching


         Capacity development on FORB for SMC members and partners

      Kristina Patring

      kristina.patring@smc.global

    Reach out to Kristina Patring, the FORB advisor at the SMC office!

    She is more than happy to give your organisation training on FORB or just be a bouncing board on how you can integrate FORB into your projects or programmes and fulfil the SMC’s requirement of FORB as an integrated perspective in planning, applications, report and follow up.

    The SMC office offers either distance advice and digital in person trainings on FORB related to other perspectives OR opportunities for IRL capacity development learning weeks. 

  • courses

    We offer three courses including our facilitated FORB training of the trainers course and two self-study courses on Freedom of religion or belief (FORB), and the Relationship between women's rights and FORB, that you can take at your own pace, at any time. 

    Click on the images to access the courses!


  • Resources - The Local Changemakers Course

    Do you want to raise awareness and transform attitudes at the community level?

    The Local Changemakers Course is a series of nine face-to-face workshops, designed to enable groups of adults and young people to learn about, value and promote freedom of religion or belief (FORB) for all in their communities. A complete curriculum of course materials is available to download and use in any you find helpful. 

    Click on the image to navigate to the course, facilitator's manual, and resources! 


       Watch this film to discover the course!

       

  • learn with films

       Click on the images to access the films!





  • FORB Learning platform

    Click on the image to learn about Freedom of Religion or Belief (FORB)!


  • Exercise bank & reports