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BANGLADESH: 2,500 booked for clashes over ‘blasphemy’
BANGLADESH: 2,500 booked for clashes over 'blasphemy' The violence was triggered by an alleged blasphemous post on Facebook insulting Prophet Muhammad By Emran Hossain UCA...
YEMEN: USCIRF calls for immediate release of 17 Baha’is forcibly disappeared by the Houthis
YEMEN: USCIRF calls for immediate release of 17 Baha’is forcibly disappeared by the Houthis USCIRF (02.06.2023) – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)...
BELARUS: Journalist Yauhen Merkis sentenced to 4 years in prison on extremism charges
Journalist Yauhen Merkis sentenced to 4 years in prison on extremism charges CPJ (30.05.2023) — In response to a Belarusian court sentencing journalist Yauhen Merkis to four...
TURKEY: Physical and sexual violence by police against 100+ Ahmadi asylum-seekers
TURKEY: Physical and sexual violence by police against 100+ Ahmadi asylum-seekers The European Times (05.06.2023) - On 24 May, over 100 members of the Ahmadi Religion – women,...
RUSSIA: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest May 15-31
Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest May 15-31 31.05.2023 - Two pastors charged with collaborating with an unwanted organization SOVA - On May 31, 2023, the...
TAIWAN: China’s infiltration strategy into Taiwan’s religious organizations
TAIWAN: China’s infiltration strategy into Taiwan’s religious organizations By Zsuzsa-Anna Ferenczy reporting from Taiwan for Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (02.06.2023) -...
CHINA: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly digest May 15-31
Religious persecution and issues - Bimonthly digest May 15-31 General 25.05.2023 - China: Theological seminaries inspected to check how “sinicized” they are On May 10, 2023,...
SUDAN: Journalists shot, beaten, and harassed covering the conflict in Sudan
Journalists shot, beaten, and harassed covering conflict between Sudan’s rival military groups CPJ (30.05.2023) - On May 1, freelance Sudanese photographer Faiz Abuabkar was...
УКРАИНА: повреждение 110 религиозных объектов проверено ЮНЕСКО
Упавший купол возле храма Пресвятой Богородицы («Всех скорбящих Радость»), разрушенного российской авиабомбой 18 января 2023 года в Богородичном, Украина. Global Images Украина...
PAKISTAN: Forced marriages and forced conversions, and the European Union
PAKISTAN: Forced marriages and forced conversions in Pakistan and the European Union HRWF (31.05.2023) - On 8 May, HRWF organized a conference titled “EU-Pakistan: Human rights,...
IRAN: Religious persecution and issues – Monthly digest May
Religious persecution and issues – Monthly digest May Christians ‘We use money that could feed hungry Muslims to restore Christian churches’ – tourism minister Article 18...
TURKEY-EU: 103 Ahmadis to be deported/ HRWF calls upon the UN, EU and OSCE
TURKEY-EU: HRWF calls upon the UN, EU and OSCE to ask Turkey to annul a deportation order to 103 Ahmadis By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers The European Times...
HRWF Database of Documented Cases of FORB Prisoners Worldwide
HRWF Prisoners Database
Human Rights Without Frontiers tracks incidents worldwide where people are imprisoned for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief.
In Prison for Their Faith 2020
Ahmadis – Baha’is – Buddhists – Catholics – Church of Almighty God – Falun Gong – Jehovah’s Witnesses – Orthodox – Protestants – Said Nursi – Sufis – Sunnis – Tabligh Jamaat
Report on Human Rights and Political Repression in Benin
HRWF at the UN and the European Parliament
HRWF Presentation at UN Human Rights Council about the FIES system in Spain
HRWF Presentation at the European Parliament on Sexual Violence and Rape as Abuses of Power
HRWF on Religious Persecution in China at the European Parliament
HRWF reports
Freedom of Religion or Belief
Women's Rights & Religion
This HRWF report explores the ways in which religious texts and practices as well as cultural influences and patriarchal systems influence the infringement of women's rights. It aspires to highlight the powerful potential that religion and religious leaders have to help guarantee these rights around the world.
