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JAPAN: About the killing of PM Shinzo Abe : a press conference in France
JAPAN: About the killing of PM Shinzo Abe : a press conference in France Press release of a delegation of the Universal Peace Federation Version en français ICI FFWPU...
INDIA: 12th state plans law to criminalize conversions
INDIA: 12th state plans law to criminalize conversions UCA News (23.06.2024) - Yet another Indian state has announced plans to enact a draconian anti-conversion law, which is...
BELGIUM: Sex workers can now have regular job contracts
BELGIUM: Sex workers can now have regular job contracts See Euronews Video here By Dimitri Korczak Euronews (21.06.2024) - The new rules allow them to sign job contracts with...
RUSSIA: Shootings in Dagestan, a synagogue and churches attacked
RUSSIA: Shootings in several cities of Dagestan, a synagogue and churches attacked By Willy Fautré The European Times (24.06.2024) - At least 19 people were victims of an...
UKRAINE: The war, religious beliefs and conscientious objection (1)
UKRAINE: The war, religious beliefs and conscientious objection: the case of Jehovah’s Witnesses (1) HRWF study of the judicial practice of Ukraine regarding the cases of...
RUSSIA: Heavy prison terms for 9 Jehovah’s Witnesses in Crimea
RUSSIA: Heavy prison terms for 9 Jehovah’s Witnesses in the occupied territory of Crimea By Willy Fautré The European Times (21.06.2024) - Nine Jehovah’s Witnesses living in the...
MEXICO: No solution for Protestant families after fifty days of displacement
MEXICO: No solution for Protestant families after fifty days of displacement Fifty days after the forced displacement on 26 April of more than 150 Baptist Protestants...
FRANCE: Anti-Semitic gang-rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl by teenagers
FRANCE: Anti-Semitic gang-rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl by teenagers The French authorities go on keeping silent about the family background of the rapists, most probably to...
INDIA: New wave of violence erupts against Christians in the State of Manipur
INDIA: New wave of violence erupts against Christians in the State of Manipur By Ganesh Rajaraman Religion Unplugged (13.06.2024) - Manipur is witnessing renewed violence, with...
FRANCE: MIVILUDES defamed Jehovah’s Witnesses, a court says
FRANCE: Administrative court finds MIVILUDES’ statements about Jehovah’s Witnesses defamatory The Paris Administrative Court has concluded that it is “factually incorrect” to...
BULGARIA: Russian pressure weighs heavily on Orthodox Church election
BULGARIA: Russian pressure weighs heavily on Orthodox Church election Andreja Bogdanovski Balkan Insight (18.06.2024) -The election of a new patriarch is intensifying divisions...
RUSSIA: Ukrainian children deported to Russia listed on adoption websites
RUSSIA: Ukrainian children deported to Russia listed on adoption websites Euromaidan (13.06.2024) - In March last year, the International Criminal Court issued warrants for the...
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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.