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EU: Does the EU have hijab bans? World Hijab Day celebrated on 1 February
EU: Does the EU have hijab bans? As women around the world mark World Hijab Day, people are calling on the European Union to create safer spaces for conversations about...
CUBA: Documented religious freedom violations more than double in 2022
CUBA: Documented religious freedom violations more than double in 2022 'Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together. You cannot harm or strive to achieve one...
IRAN: Wife of imprisoned church leader released on bail
IRAN: Wife of imprisoned church leader released on bail CSW (03.02.2023) - https://bit.ly/3I9qUlz - The wife of a leader from the Church of Iran denomination was released on bail...
ERITREA: Latest mass imprisonment of Christians takes place
ERITREA: Eritrea likened to ‘giant prison’ as latest mass imprisonment of Christians takes place Premier Christian News (30.01.2023) - https://bit.ly/3RBUvHh - The Christian...
RUSSIA: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly digest Jan 16-31
RUSSIA: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly digest Jan 16-31 31.01.2023 - The Court keeps an elderly believer from Maykop in a pre-trial detention Center for months....
IRAN: Religious persecution and issues – Monthly digest January
IRAN: Religious persecution and issues – Monthly digest January Christians Son of murdered pastor releases film in response to Iran executions Article 18 (23.01.2023) - The son...
CHINA: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest Jan 16-31
CHINA: Religious persecution and issues - Bimonthly digest Jan 16-31 Buddhists 24.01.2023 - Report offers fresh examples of destruction of religious sites in eastern Tibet A new...
BENIN in the dock at the UN Universal Periodic Review in Geneva
Benin in the dock at the United Nations in Geneva HRWF full report HRWF (27.01.2022) – https://hrwf.eu - On 26 January, a few weeks after the controversial parliamentary...
IRAN: The persecution of Christians in Iran debated at the European Parliament
IRAN: The persecution of Christians in the world, especially in Iran, highlighted at the European Parliament By Willy Fautré The European Times (26.01.2023)- The...
SOUTH KOREA: Objection to military service to be on the U.N. agenda
SOUTH KOREA: Conscientious objection to military service to be on the agenda of the United Nations HRWF (24.01.2023) - On 26 January, the human rights record of the Republic of...
GERMANY: Hate speech and incitement to violence of a Turkish AKP lawmaker
GERMANY: Hate speech and incitement to violence of a Turkish AKP lawmaker in Neuss By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (25.01.2023) – “Just as we...
INDIA: Concern in Goa as Hindu group storms Catholic college
INDIA: Concern in Goa as Hindu group storms Catholic college The student wing of ruling pro-Hindu party stage a protest and disrupt classes in Goa's St. Xavier’s College UCA News...
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.
