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 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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UKRAINE: Coalition of religions and believers to ban the Gay Pride in Odessa
Dumskaya (20.08.2019) - “Undermining the reputation of the city": the Moscow Patriarchate, along with individual Catholics and Protestants, asks Trukhanov to ban the LGBT march in Odessa A number of religious organizations in Odessa addressed Gennady Trukhanov,...
North Korean soldier defects across DMZ
By Eugene Whong Radio Free Asia (01.08.2019) - https://bit.ly/2ZkyfJ8 - A North Korean active-duty soldier crossed the military demarcation line (MDL) Wednesday night in the heavily fortified demilitarized zone (DMZ) into South Korea in an apparent defection....
European companies get rich in China’s ‘open air prison’
Volkswagen, Siemens and more are making money in Xinjiang, where minorities are being herded into detention camps. By Benjamin Haas The New York Times (21.08.2019) - https://nyti.ms/33Sh7d5 - Many people around the world may just now be learning that around a million...
SOUTH KOREA: Hyeon-Jeong KIM: 50 days of confinement for forced de-conversion (1)
Presbyterian pastors inciting domestic violence and breaches of Korean laws By Willy Fautré, Director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (22.08.2019) - Hyeon-Jeong KIM, the victim of kidnapping and confinement for the purpose of religious...
UGANDA: Kampala’s market women unite against harassment
Tired of suffering physical and verbal abuse at one of the Ugandan capital’s largest markets, female vendors are holding perpetrators to account By Alice McCool The Guardian (19.08.2019) - https://bit.ly/2Z1CtGe - Some men are in the habit of touching...