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 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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EU: The European Commission’s second anti-trafficking report: A call to end the “culture of impunity”
By Brianna Hertford, Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (18.09.2019) – On the 12th of September 2019, Dr Myria Vassiliadou, the EU Anti Trafficking Coordinator, presented the EU Commission’s second report on trafficking to the FEMM and LIBE committees at the...
ASIA: Gender equality and women leaders benefit companies and society: President Halimah
The Straits Times (18.09.2019) - https://bit.ly/2lX2WlP - Companies and society will benefit from increasing participation by women in the economy and leadership positions, said President Halimah Yacob on Wednesday (18.09.2019). Madam Halimah told the Women's...
Ukraine’s delegation leaves OSCE meeting over statements on ‘Russian Crimea’
Ukrinform (17.09.2019) - https://bit.ly/2kGZGe7 - A delegation from Ukraine has left the OSCE session hall in Warsaw during the discussion of the topic of freedom of speech in protest at statements about "Russian Crimea," according to Crimean Tatar television channel...
SOUTH KOREA: Hye Jeong Lim: VIDEO of her kidnapping masterminded by her family and a Presbyterian pastor
HRWF (18.09.2019) - It is not usual to film a live kidnapping in broad daylight and in the middle of a crowd, but that is what happened to Hye Jeong Lim, when she was 21 years old. She was near the university in Chonnam city when it occurred. A car...
INDIA: Card Alencherry wants justice for priest and catechist arrested for “forced conversions”
The two Catholics have been held in Jharkhand since 6 September. A court has rejected their request for bail. In a note, Syro-Malabar Major Archbishop says, “It is clear that those who are not happy with the social and educational activities of the missionaries among...