by admin_HRWF | Feb 18, 2020 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
Syria’s refugee crisis has shone a light on sex trafficking in Lebanon, where victims are often treated as criminals. By Daniela Sala Al Jazeera (11..02.2020) – https://bit.ly/2uLjXUU – “How do I know most of the women working as...
by admin_HRWF | Nov 4, 2019 | Women's Rights & Gender Equality
A former inmate speaks out. “The screaming, pleading, crying, is still in my head,” she says. According to the UN, around a million minority Muslims are being held in facilities built by Beijing in the region. For Chinese authorities, they are necessary to fight...
by admin_HRWF | Mar 11, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (11.03.2019) – In 2018, more than 11,000 members of the Church of Almighty God (a new Christian movement with continuities to the Protestant tradition) were arrested in China for merely engaging in...
by admin_HRWF | Mar 7, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Religious communities including Jehovah’s Witnesses meeting for worship continue to be raided, with interrogations lasting between 20 minutes and 14 hours and in some cases involving torture. Other religious communities also face renewed questioning, especially...
by admin_HRWF | Feb 22, 2019 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia (19.02.2019) – https://bit.ly/2VjHJyX – At least seven of Jehovah’s Witnesses were subjected to torture—electric shocks, suffocation, and cruel beatings—on the first floor of the Russian Investigative Committee’s building at...
