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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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NORTH KOREA/POLAND/NETHERLANDS: Dutch shipbuilder in dock over North Korean’s Polish slave claims
A North Korean man is suing a Dutch shipbuilder he accuses of profiting from slave labor when he was employed in a Polish shipyard. The first case of its kind, his lawyers hope it will open up more such cases. By Jo Harper Deutsche Welle (14.02.2019) -...
read moreFRANCE: Church of Scientology wins case in appellate court of Caen against the former head of Miviludes, Georges Fenech
By Willy Fautré HRWF (13.02.2019) - Georges Fenech, 64, former president of the MIVILUDES (Interministerial mission for the monitoring and fight against cults) from 2008 to 2012 and three times member of the National Assembly, recently lost a case against the...
read moreWORLD: ‘Religious freedom’ claims used to defend FGM in courts in four countries
Cases come as rights advocates warn such arguments are increasingly being ‘weaponised’ against women’s and LGBT equality. By Nandini Archer and Claire Provost OpenDemocracy.net (12.02.2019) - https://bit.ly/2GNjHYK- Doctors and lawyers in at least four...
read moreUSA: Bill aims to put an end to ‘child marriages’ in Minnesota
By Briana Bierschbach MPR News (12.02.2019) - https://bit.ly/2GrCxFt- Kaohly Her was a teenager when an older man caught a glimpse of her at a community event. The next day, his family called her father to ask for her hand in marriage. “I remember...
read moreJORDAN: Lawmaker who changed rape law takes on child marriage
VOA News (12.02.2019) - https://bit.ly/2tlNrUN- A Jordanian lawmaker praised for her role in abolishing a law that let rapists off the hook if they married their victims has targeted child marriage as her next challenge. Nearly 10,500 girls in Jordan were...
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