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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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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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DRC election crisis is the litmus test for a true EU-Africa partnership
With diplomatic relations between the Democratic Republic of Congo and the EU at an all-time low, the country's election crisis will be a litmus test as to whether the EU has serious intentions about renewing its relationship with Africa, explain Willy Fautré &...
read moreUKRAINE/CRIMEA: “Anti-missionary” prosecutions double in 2018
Compared to the first year they were implemented, punishments in Russian-occupied Crimea for ill-defined "missionary activity" doubled in 2018. Of 23 prosecutions for sharing faith or holding worship at unapproved venues, 19 ended in punishment. Also, 17 cases were...
read moreEGYPT: Muslim throng converges on worship site of Coptic Church in Egypt
Priests evicted, building shuttered. Morning Star News (19.01.2019) - https://bit.ly/2VPtiU6 - Police in Upper Egypt evicted Coptic priests and shuttered their church building after an Islamist mob converged on the site over the weekend, according to...
read moreWORLD: One in three Christians face persecution in Asia, report finds
Threat levels rise in China amid crackdown and India enters top 10 for first time By Harriet Sherwood The Guardian (16.01.2019) - https://bit.ly/2ARc7bX - The persecution of Christians in China is the worst it has been for more than a decade, with at...
read moreAZERBAIJAN: Azerbaijani authorities failed to investigate serious invasion of well-known investigative journalist’s privacy
European Court of Human Rights (10.01.2019) - https://bit.ly/2sqr2VZ - In today’s Chamber judgment[1] in the case of Khadija Ismayilova v. Azerbaijan (application no. 65286/13) the European Court of Human Rights held, unanimously, that there had been: two...
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