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SOUTH KOREA: Kim Ju-hye: Kidnapped and forced into a coercive de-conversion programme for 51 days by her family
HRWF (12.11.2020) – Kim Ju-hye, a university student, joined the Shincheonji Church in 2018 after growing up in a Presbyterian household. Her father is a reporter for a newspaper...
JOINT STATEMENT: Trans Day of Remembrance 2020: Fighting for our futures
On Trans Day of Remembrance (TDoR), 20 November, we remember and honour trans and gender-diverse people whose lives were taken away from us. ILGA-Europe (19.11.2020) -...
WORLD: Caster Semenya to take fight to European Court of Human Rights
Caster Semenya plans to fight rules forcing intersex athletes to reduce their naturally high levels of testosterone with drugs or surgery to compete. Reuters (17.11.2020)...
FRANCE: De Ligonnès’ prayer group allegedly abusing the weakness of a 60-year-old is fake news, a court rules
Anti-cult organisations UNADFI and CCMM, the controversial state anti-cult institution MIVILUDES and George Fenech (a magistrate, former president of MIVILUDES and MP of the LR...
Call to the EU: “Assist Belarusians Seeking Democracy and Human Rights. Do more”
Reform movement facing crushing regime violence THE EU AND ITS MEMBER STATES NEED TO DO MORE, The Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe and Human Rights Without Frontiers say. Other...
CHINA: Special Weekly FoRB Newsletter (10-17.11.2020)
17.11.20 - Propaganda bases replace religious venues The CCP expands its propaganda bases across China to exert ideological control over the population. Numerous places of...
Lee Hyo-jae, champion of women’s rights in South Korea, dies at 95
Ms. Lee was a prominent activist and a founder of women’s studies programs. She also stood up to the country’s dictators. By Michael Astor The New York Times...
UK report calls out Saudi Arabia over women’s rights abuses
UK legislator Baroness Helena Kennedy demands world leaders shun G20 meeting in Riyadh over jailed women activists. Al Jazeera (12.11.2020) - https://bit.ly/3f8jaQx - A...
RUSSIA: Special bimonthly FORB Digest (01-15.11.2020)
13.11.20 - A Cherkessk resident is suspected of extremism for talking about the Bible. Her daughter's drawings were seized as evidence from the believer Link to full text in...
HRWF Prisoners Database
Human Rights Without Frontiers tracks incidents worldwide where people are imprisoned for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief.
In Prison for Their Faith 2020
Ahmadis – Baha’is – Buddhists – Catholics – Church of Almighty God – Falun Gong – Jehovah’s Witnesses – Orthodox – Protestants – Said Nursi – Sufis – Sunnis – Tabligh Jamaat
HRWF VIDEOS
REPORT: Freedom of Religion or Belief
This HRWF report exposes the practice of kidnapping, confinement and forced de-conversion that is currently ongoing in South Korea. It discusses the history, cultural context and drivers of this gross human rights violation, highlights 10 individual cases and provides recommendations.
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.
