HUMAN RIGHTS WITHOUT FRONTIERS

Promoting the universal and equal application of human rights for all people, regardless of one’s nationality, sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion, language, or any other status.

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Defending the rights of those who might otherwise be forgotten, helping to make their voices heard in the corridors of power..

Protecting Freedom of Religion & Belief (FoRB): the right of everyone to freedom of thought, conscience and religion as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

RUSSIA-UKRAINE: A pro-Russian propaganda school in occupied Ukraine

A pro-Russian propaganda school in occupied Ukraine Mediatopol in south-east Ukraine: officially a journalism school, in reality a propaganda school in the service of the Kremlin...

EU-INDIA: Religious freedom in the context of a Free Trade Agreement

EU-INDIA: Religious freedom in the context of a Free Trade Agreement HRWF (21.09.2023) - On 19 September, the DROI committee held an exchange of views on the human rights...

WORLD: ‘Break the silence on persecuted Christians’ (European Parliament)

WORLD: 'Break the silence on persecuted Christians' A conference and an exhibition held by MEP Bert-Jan Ruissen in the European Parliament denounces the silence and the impunity...

EU-INDIA: Human rights in the context of a Free-Trade Agreement

Human rights in the context of a Free-Trade Agreement HRWF (19.09.2023) - Today, 19 September, the DROI committee has held an exchange of views on the human rights dimension of...

RUSSIA: Religious issues and persecution – Bimonthly Digest September 01-15

Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly Digest September 01-15 15.09.2023 - The Court of the City of Kazan sent Sergey Gromov to a penal colony for six years for conducting...

EGYPT divided over recent government decision to ban niqab at schools

EGYPT: Egypt divided over recent niqab ban at schools Egyptians talk to Al Jazeera about the recent government decision to prohibit students from wearing niqab. By Umut Uras...

IRAN: Anniversary of Amini’s killing: USCIRF publishes a new FORB Report

IRAN: Anniversary of Mahsa Zhina Amini’s killing: USCIRF publishes a new FORB Report USCIRF (15.09.2023) - – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom...

FRANCE: Muslim students’ robes are latest fault line for French identity

Muslim students’ robes are latest fault line for French identity When the French education minister declared that the abayas favored by some Muslim women “can no longer be worn...

CHINA: Religious persecution and issues – Bimonthly digest September 01-15

Religious persecution and issues - Bimonthly digest September 01-15 General 11.09.2023 - With a little help from my friends: Russian anti-cultist supports China atrocities...

UKRAINE: Russia’s bombing of the Odesa Cathedral: Assessing the damages

UKRAINE: Russia’s criminal bombing of the Odesa Cathedral: Assessing the damages An interview with Architect Volodymyr Meshcheriakov, who led the rebuilding of the historical...

ALGERIA: Fact-finding mission of a UN Special Rapporteur and FoRB

ALGERIA: Religious freedom to be on the agenda of a UN Special Rapporteur before his fact-finding mission HRWF/ CAP (14.09.2023) - CAP/ Liberté de Conscience and Human Rights...

TURKEY: Over 100 members of persecuted religious minority held at the border

Members of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light arrive at the Turkish-Bulgarian border on May 24, 2023. Photo courtesy of Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light TURKEY: Over...

HRWF Prisoners 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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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

Report on Human Rights and Political Repression in Benin

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HRWF at the UN and the European Parliament

HRWF Presentation at UN Human Rights Council about the FIES system in Spain

HRWF Presentation at the European Parliament on Sexual Violence and Rape as Abuses of Power

HRWF on Religious Persecution in China at the European Parliament

HRWF reports

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.

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.

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