HRWF Prisoner Database
Human Rights Without Frontiers tracks incidents worldwide where people are imprisoned for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief.
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REPORT: Women's Rights & Religion
This report addresses early, forced and child marriages, female genital mutilation, violence against women, ‘honour’ killing, public dress codes, and reproductive rights. Through these various facets of women’s rights, the report explores the ways in which religious texts, practices, cultural influences, and patriarchal systems influence or motivate violations of these rights. read more
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UNITED STATES/IRAQ/SYRIA: H.R.390 – Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018 115th Congress (2017-2018) | 11 December 2018
Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2017 Congress (11.12.2018) - https://bit.ly/2PzUamI - (Sec. 4) This bill states that is U.S. policy to ensure that humanitarian, stabilization, and recovery assistance for nationals and residents of Iraq or...
read moreWORLD: US condemns 10 countries for severe religious freedom violations
By Jennifer Hansler CNN (11.12.2018) - https://cnn.it/2ErhOkr - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday announced the US has deemed 10 countries guilty of severe religious freedom violations. The nations -- China, Eritrea, Iran, Myanmar (also known as Burma),...
read moreEGYPT: Copt sentenced to three years in prison for ‘blasphemous’ Facebook post
World Watch Monitor (12.12.2018) - https://bit.ly/2SEULFM - An Egyptian court has sentenced a Coptic Christian to three years in prison after he was found guilty of “insulting Islam in the first degree”. Abdo Adel, 43, from Menbal, a village in Egypt’s Minya...
read moreCHINA: Roundtable discussion at the European Parliament about religious freedom (video)
On the occasion of Human Rights Day (10 December), Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) in collaboration with EU Reporter has held a roundtable discussion at the European Parliament about religious freedom in China. China is regarded as one of the worst offenders of...
read moreCHINA: 100 church attendees in custody, attacks ongoing
ChinaAid (10.12.2018) - https://bit.ly/2C5rXRc - Around 100 leaders and seminary students from Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, Sichuan have been arrested today. Among the arrested are Pastor Wang Yi and his wife, Jiang Rong, who were seen being taken away...
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