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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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FRANCE: Statistics: Anti-Muslim, anti-Jewish and anti-Christian incidents in 2018
HRWF (18.02.2019) – After two years of decrease in 2016 and 2017, the number of anti-Jewish incidents in France increased by 74% in 2018: 541 against 311 in 2017. There were 81 acts of violence and homicide attempts, 102 incidents targeting Jewish places and 358...
read moreUKRAINE: Unknown individuals attempt to set church in Ukraine’s Nikolayev Region on fire
Interfax Religion (12.02.2019) - https://bit.ly/2TTd7nj - Kiev: Unidentified persons threw a bottle bomb in the building of the church of St. Elijah the Martyr in the village of Zelenyi Bor, Ukraine's Nikolayev Region on Sunday night, no one has been injured, the...
read moreUKRAINE: Russia moves to crush Orthodox Church of Ukraine in occupied Crimea
By Halya Coynash Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (14.02.2019) - https://bit.ly/2EiC46n - The Orthodox Church of Ukraine has been ordered to vacate the Cathedral of Vladimir and Olga in occupied Simferopol by the beginning of March, with this likely to...
read moreUKRAINE: Ukrainian official charged in acid attack on activist after outcry
Ukrainian prosecutors said Monday (11 February) they had charged a high-ranking regional official with organising a deadly acid attack on a prominent anti-corruption activist that prompted widespread outrage. EURACTIV (11.02.2019) - http://bit.do/eJqhT -...
read moreUKRAINE: Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, a Kremlin’s Trojan horse in Ukraine’s presidential election?
By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (18.02.2019) - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia hopes that he will be able to visit Ukraine in the future to meet with the believers of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, he said in an...
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