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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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RUSSIA: Prosecutions of religious organisations and believers
- Sova Center (14.02.2020) - https://bit.ly/38ccOKI - Three Jehovah's Witnesses were sentenced in January. The Nadezhdinsky District Court of Primorsky Krai found Grigory Bubnov (born in 1965) guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Article...
CENTRAL ASIA: How to thwart religious extremism
- By Willy Fautré - HRWF (02.03.2020) - In February 2016, the EIAS published a briefing paper entitled “Rising Extremism in Central Asia? Stability in the Heartland for a Secure Eurasia”, by Sebastiano Mori and Leonardo Taccetti. This paper addressed several major...
South Korea: Intolerance against Shincheonji Church after coronavirus incident
- By Massimo Introvigne - CESNUR (28.02.2020) - https://www.cesnur.org/2020/shincheonji.htm - Media all around the world are focusing attention on Shincheonji Church, a South Korean Christian new religious movement, after members of the church’s Daegu congregation...
BREAKING NEWS: BELARUS-RUSSIA: A Russian Jehovah’s Witness to be extradited from Belarus to Russia?
- Human Rights Without Frontiers (Brussels) and Forum for Religious Freedom Europe (FOREF, Vienna) are urging the international community to advocate against this extradition HRWF (26.02.2020) – A Russian Jehovah’s Witness is under threat of being...
The grisly deaths of a woman and a girl shock Mexico and test its president
The murders of Ingrid Escamilla, 25, and Fátima Aldrighett, 7, are forcing a reckoning in a country that has wrestled with violence against women. The president’s response has been harshly criticized. By Kirk Semple and Paulina Villegas The New York...