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DRC: Hundreds of women raped and burned to death after Goma prison set on fire

Women's Rights & Gender Equality

DRC: Hundreds of women raped and burned to death after Goma prison set on fire Atrocity follows escape of thousands of male inmates amid chaos as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels seize eastern DRC city By Joost Bastmeijer, Saskia Houttuin and Mark Townsend The Guardian...

ECHR/FRANCE: French divorcee wins appeal in case over refusing husband sex

Women's Rights & Gender Equality

ECHR/FRANCE: French divorcee wins appeal in case over refusing husband sex By Rachel Hagan BBC News (23.01.2025) – A French woman who stopped having sex with her husband has won a ruling from Europe’s highest human rights court, which has stated she should...

CANADA: Jehovah’s Witnesses: No systemic problem of child abuse

Freedom of Religion and Belief

Ontario Superior Court of Justice states Jehovah’s Witnesses have no “systemic” problem of child sexual abuse A certification motion for a class actions lawsuit making the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization liable for individual members’ abuses was rejected.   by...

ETHIOPIA: The UN needs to investigate massacres of civilians in war and non-war zones

Human Rights in the World

ETHIOPIA: The UN needs to investigate massacres of civilians in war and no-war zones By Willy Fautre The European Times (16.02.2022) – https://bit.ly/3gR8iZ3 – An independent UN inquiry commission needs to investigate the innumerable killings of civilians...

RUSSIA: Sexual abuse of minors: 18 and 12 years of prison for 2 Orthodox clerics

Human Rights in the World

Credo (08.11.2021) – https://credo.press/239598/ – Hieromonk Spiridon (his real name in the world being Yuri Abramov), who headed the parish of the church of the Holy Prophet Elijah in the village of Amurzet, Oktyabrsky district, Jewish Autonomous Region...
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