Human Rights in the World
RUSSIA: Workers from Bangladesh sought jobs in Russia but got sent to war in Ukraine By SAMYA KULLAB AP News (27.01.2026) – A labor recruiter persuaded Maksudur Rahman to leave the tropical warmth of his hometown in Bangladesh and travel thousands of miles to...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
UKRAINE: Drawing “New Borders” means choosing which pastors to condemn By Steven Moore and Colby Barrett Providence (22.01.2026) – Last summer, we traveled to Sloviansk, a free city in the Donetsk Oblast of eastern Ukraine. There we met Oleksandr Pavenko, the...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
UKRAINE: The legal fate of the UOC MP against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine HRWF (07.10.2025) – Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the attention of the Ukrainian authorities to religious organizations with actual or...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Buddhist leader given longest known anti-war jail term By Victoria Arnold Forum18 (04.05.2025) – A Moscow court jailed Buddhist leader Ilya Vasilyev on 25 June for eight years for allegedly disseminating “knowingly false information” about...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
UKRAINE: Zelensky revokes citizenship of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Onufriy By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree on the deprivation of citizenship of Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church...
