by admin_HRWF | Apr 2, 2020 | Security x Religion
As Islamic clerics refuse to stop allowing religious congregations, Prime Minister Imran Khan continues to downplay the coronavirus threat to his country. Could this be a “recipe for disaster” for Pakistan? By Haroon Janjua DW News (31.03.2020)...
by admin_HRWF | Mar 25, 2020 | Security x Religion
On 23 March, the South Korean government stepped up measures to enforce its guidelines on social distancing among the public. See the “64 new cases of coronavirus on Monday, some from abroad” by Shim Kyu-seok in Koreajoongang Daily Koreajoongang Daily (24.03.2020)...
by admin_HRWF | Mar 3, 2020 | Security x Religion
By Animesh Roul The James Town Foundation (25.02.2020) – https://bit.ly/2vAnsO3 – The image of the Maldives as a tropical paradise received a significant jolt on February 4, when three foreign nationals—two Chinese and one Australian—were stabbed and...
by admin_HRWF | Feb 28, 2020 | Central Asia, Freedom of Religion and Belief, Islam, Religion, Security x Religion
– By Willy Fautré – HRWF (02.03.2020) – In February 2016, the EIAS published a briefing paper entitled “Rising Extremism in Central Asia? Stability in the Heartland for a Secure Eurasia”, by Sebastiano Mori and Leonardo Taccetti. This paper...
by admin_HRWF | Dec 28, 2019 | Christians, Freedom of Religion and Belief, Nigeria, Security x Religion
– Reuters (26.12.2019) – https://reut.rs/37e2kKM – Islamic State released a video purporting to show its militants beheading 10 Christian men in Nigeria, saying it was part of a campaign to avenge the deaths of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and its...
by admin_HRWF | Jun 26, 2019 | Security x Religion
Ankara is funding thousands of mosques out of more than just goodwill By John M. Beck The Atlantic (01.06.2019) – https://bit.ly/2MwXnHI – The mosque being built in Albania’s capital will be the largest in all the Balkans. Still a few months away from...
