Excerpt: In hopes to discover and highlight the powerful potential that religion and religious leaders have to help guarantee women’s rights around the world, this report examines current tensions that exist between women’s rights and some interpretations of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish doctrines. This report addresses early, forced and child marriages, female genital mutilation, violence […]
CONTINUE READING →Crimes targeting Jews increased by 37% in 2017; anti-Muslim crimes fell by 11% By Joseph De Avila Wall Street Journal (13.11.2018) – https://on.wsj.com/2Pt6SZl – Hate crimes rose 17% in 2017, the FBI said Tuesday, a jump that was partly driven by a spike in anti-Semitic incidents. The number of hate-crime incidents targeting Jews […]
CONTINUE READING →FBI National Press Office (13.11.2018) – https://bit.ly/2B7AgLW – Today the FBI released Hate Crime Statistics, 2017, the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s latest compilation about bias-motivated incidents throughout the nation. The 2017 data, submitted by 16,149 law enforcement agencies (up from 15,254 agencies in 2016), provide information about the offenses, victims, offenders, and locations of […]
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