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Promoting the universal and equal application of human rights for all people, regardless of one’s nationality, sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion, language, or any other status.

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Defending the rights of those who might otherwise be forgotten, helping to make their voices heard in the corridors of power..

Protecting Freedom of Religion & Belief (FoRB): the right of everyone to freedom of thought, conscience and religion as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

MEXICO’s top court to vote on gay marriage in Yucatan state

by Christine Murray If the Supreme Court orders Yucatan state to legalize same-same marriage, other states across Mexico could follow Openly News (24.02.2021) -...

CHILE: Petition to preserve religious liberty in Chile launched

Catholic News Agency (23.02.2021) - https://bit.ly/3uCbPQG - Alliance Defending Freedom International has launched a petition addressed to the Inter-American Court of Human...

TAJIKISTAN: Jehovah’s Witness Shamil Khakimov (70) adopted as a prisoner of conscience by USCIRF Commissioner Nury Turkel

Human Rights Without Frontiers calls upon the Tajik authorities to release the two Jehovah’ Witnesses and the 15 Sunni Muslims that are behind because of their peaceful religious...

ERITREA: Christian prisoners Twen Theodros and Mussie Eyob are free!

Human Rights without Frontiers still has over 160 Protestants, 20 Jehovah’s Witnesses and 4 Coptic Orthodox in its Database of FoRB prisoners. See...

RUSSIA: Two and six years in prison for mother (69) and son (46)

HRWF (25.02.2021) - On 24 February, a Russian court convicted Valentina Baranovskaya (69) and her son Roman Baranovskiy (46), both Jehovah’s Witnesses) and sentenced them to two...

RUSSIA: Omarov sentenced to 3 years in prison

HRWF (25.02.2021) - On 20 February 2021, the Kirovsky District Court of Makhachkala (Dagestan) sentenced Bagavudin Omarov to three years in prison and one year of restricted...

RUSSIA: First sentence in Russia against activist from an ‘undesirable organization’

By Halya Coynash Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (19.02.2021) - https://bit.ly/3uvx0nd - A Russian court has convicted Rostov civic activist Anastasia Shevchenko of...

UKRAINE: Will anyone answer for the killing of 49 activists on Maidan?

By Halya Coynash Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (22.02.2021) - https://bit.ly/2NWLzQ7 - It is seven years since the worst day of bloodshed on Maidan left 49...

INDIA: Hindutva, the political ideology that puts Christians under suspicion

Vijayesh Lal, leader of the Evangelical Fellowship of India, says Christians are making a difference in times of Covid-19: “Local churches are providing relief to their...

Human Rights Without Frontiers tracks incidents worldwide where people are imprisoned for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief.

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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

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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.

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