A new report entitled ‘Religious Freedom in the World report 2014’ was launched in Britain today in the House of Lords, and included a video message from the Prince of Wales. The document, which looks at 196 countries around the world and is an assessment of the state of religious freedom for all people of faith, was…
APPG Chair on International Religious Freedom or Belief Baroness Berridge asked Her Majesty’s Government what projects they fund within the educational services in Pakistan that promote religious tolerance. Lords Spokesperson on International Development Baroness Northover (LD): DFID’s provincial education programmes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces support the implementation of Pakistan’s 2006 reformed curriculum which…
Ahead of the United Nations Human Rights Council in January 2015 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Kyrgyzstan, Forum 18 reports that the country has not fully implemented its commitments to implement freedom of religion or belief for all. Despite official promises, the state continues to limit this fundamental freedom and other human rights in both…
Stephen Timms MP (East Ham) (Lab) asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations he has made to the Iranian government about the persecution of Christians, Baha’is, and other religious minorities in that country? Foreign Office Minister Tobias Ellwood MP (Bournemouth East) (Con): The UK welcomed President Rouhani’s comments in…
“Where so much suffering has occurred, and is still occurring, action is the shared responsibility of the entire international community” – UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) reported on…