HRWF Prisoner Database
Human Rights Without Frontiers tracks incidents worldwide where people are imprisoned for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief.
CHINA: The Church of Almighty God Prisoners
VIDEO: EU Reporter & HRWF Roundtables
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
LATEST NEWS
RUSSIA: Almost two-year-long trial of Jehovah’s Witness nears end
In trial of case of Danish believer in Orel, defendant himself provided explanations Russia Religion News (18.01.2019) - https://bit.ly/2AVCJZv - On 15 and 16 January 2019, Dennis Christensen, who is charged with "arranging the activity of an extremist...
read moreRUSSIA: Jehovah’s Witnesses in prison as of 1 January
HRWF (01.01.2019) - As of 1 January 2019, authorities had placed 25 Witnesses in pretrial detention and 24 under house arrest, and 38 are not allowed to leave the area where they live. All have been charged with organizing, participating in, or financing the activity...
read moreWORLD: Recorded increase in human trafficking, women and girls targeted
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage IPS (09.01.2019) - https://bit.ly/2D1vpNb - Human trafficking is on the rise and it is more “horrific” than ever, a United Nations agency found. In a new report examining patterns in human trafficking, the U.N. Office on Drugs...
read moreWORLD: Human trafficking – hidden in plain sight
Human trafficking destroys lives, robs people of their dignity and basic human rights as it causes unfathomable misery to the immediate victims, their families and their communities. By Roman Hawatt* IPS (21.12.2018) - https://bit.ly/2TviLvx - The media...
read moreDRC 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 more