HRWF Prisoners Database
Human Rights Without Frontiers tracks incidents worldwide where people are imprisoned for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief.
SURVEY: State repression of Uyghur women
HRWF is conducting a confidential survey of Uyghur women to learn more about their experiences in China and East Turkestan. The survey is secure and submissions are encrypted to ensure the highest level of safeguarding the information provided. The survey is available in Uyghur and English. If you’re a Uyghur woman, we would greatly appreciate your participation!
CHINA: The Church of Almighty God Prisoners
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REPORT: Women's Rights & Religion
This report by HRWF addresses early, forced and child marriages, female genital mutilation, violence against women, 'honour' killing, public dress codes, and reproductive rights. Through these various violations of women's rights, the report explores the ways in which religious texts, practices, cultural influences, and patriarchal systems influence or motivate the infringement of these rights; and to discover and highlight the powerful potential that religion and religious leaders have to help guarantee women’s rights around the world. read more
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read moreQatar covered up the death of 1200 workers
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read moreUK: The Home Office, asylum and religious conversion
Home Office cites Bible to deny asylum By Kaya Burgess The Times (22.03.2019) - https://bit.ly/2GnTDBV- The Home Office refused asylum to an Iranian who converted from Islam to Christianity because, it said, Christianity was not a peaceful religion....
read moreCrimean Tatar Imam arrested on charges of ‘calls to extremism’ in Russian-occupied Crimea
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read moreEgyptian govt legalizes 900 churches in three years
New law replaces the 1934 legislation that made the construction of new churches subject to ten conditions By Arnaud Bevilacqua La Croix International (15.04.2019) - https://bit.ly/2GwjkQX - President Abdel Fatteh al Sissi's Egyptian government legalized...
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