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.
LATEST NEWS
Ukrainian MPs endanger independence of key anti-corruption body
- With 239 votes, Ukrainian MPs appointed scandalous and much-criticized members to the commission that will select the head of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, a key anti-corruption institution. Article by: Olena Makarenko Euromaidan Press...
UKRAINE: Fight against corruption: a suspicious silence and inaction of the Prosecutor General
HRWF comment: Another bribe scandal in the parliament sheds light on the mechanisms of corruption interconnecting politics, business and judiciary, the cornerstone of the whole system. Prosecutor general blocks bribery charges against Zelensky lawmaker By Oleg Sukhov...
Iran’s secular shift: New survey reveals huge changes
- HRWF (17.09.2020) - In June 2020, the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in IRAN (GAMAAN), conducted an online survey with the collaboration of Ladan Boroumand, co-founder of the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran. The results...
WORLD: Where rights have gone wrong
By Peter Kurti CIS (28.08.2020) - https://bit.ly/2Rz95AZ - Before COVID-19 overwhelmed Australia’s political life in early 2020, the Morrison government’s Religious Discrimination Bill was making its unsteady way through the parliamentary process in Canberra....
RUSSIA: Special bimonthly FORB Digest (02-15.09.2020)
15.09.20 - Danish Jehovah's Witness returned to punishment cell Link to full text in Russian: www.zaprava.ru/svidetelya-iegovy-dennisa-kristensena-snova-otpravili-v-shizo-2/ The Jehovah's Witness (organization ruled to be extremist in R.F.) Dennis Christensen, who was...