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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...
HRWF Prisoners Database
Human Rights Without Frontiers tracks incidents worldwide where people are imprisoned for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief.
REPORT: Freedom of Religion or Belief
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.