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
HRWF VIDEOS
REPORT: Freedom of Religion or Belief
This HRWF report exposes the practice of kidnapping, confinement and forced de-conversion that is currently ongoing in South Korea. It discusses the history, cultural context and drivers of this gross human rights violation, highlights 10 individual cases and provides recommendations.
REPORT: 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.
LATEST NEWS
UKRAINE: Anti-corruption institutions under attack again and again
HRWF (26.09.2020) - Ukraine’s whole anti-corruption infrastructure and judicial reform are now coming under attack from pro-oligarch and pro-Russian forces, according to participants of “Ukraine’s judiciary’s and anti-corruption in peril.” an online panel held by...
Ukraine needs a judicial ombudsman to solve its corruption problem
This is the theory of Bate C. Toms, Chairman of the British-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce. HRWF (25.09.2020) - In various articles and webinars, Bate C. Toms, Chairman of the BUCC (Managing Partner of B C Toms & Co, Kyiv and London; JD Yale Law School and...
IRAN: Christian convert released on bail after two months in prison
Article18 (23.09.2020) - https://bit.ly/2RTy7Lt - An Iranian woman convert to Christianity detained since her arrest at the end of June has finally been released on a reduced bail. Article18 understands that Malihe Nazari, who is 46 years old, was released from...
CHINA: Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act
U.S. House of Representatives House passes legislation to crack down on business with companies using China's forced labor. HRWF welcomes the House of Representatives’ passage of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and calls upon the European Union to take a...
45% of Ukrainians will fall below actual poverty level in 2020: study
An elderly woman begging for money in central Kyiv, 2018. Photo by Oleg Petrasiuk By Igor Kossov Kyiv Post (18.09.2020) - https://bit.ly/3hTa2z2 - Close to half of Ukrainians will experience poverty in 2020, according to a study by the M.V. Ptukha Institute of...