The Prime Minister‘s Christmas message highlighted the ongoing challenge of persecution and the threat to Freedom of Religion or Belief. She said “Let us remember those around the world today who have been denied those freedoms – from Christians in some parts of the Middle East to the sickening persecution of the Rohingya Muslims. And let…
On 13 December APPG stakeholder Open Doors launched its latest report in Parliament as part of its Hope for the Middle East campaign: What next for Syria and Iraq? The Enduring Relevance of the Church in the Middle East. The day before an Open Doors delegation – led by 12-year-old Noeh from Karamles, Iraq –…
Jim Shannon MP and Fiona Bruce MP hosted a meeting in the Palace of Westminster on 13 December designed to raise awareness about claims of forced organ harvesting from the religious group known as the Falun Gong. Over the past decade, reports have emerged which claim that the Chinese Government is killing religious prisoners of…
Today is International #HumanRightsDay #StandUp4HumanRights pic.twitter.com/7c3u4G59fd — Human Rights at FCDO (@FCDOHumanRights) December 10, 2017 Freedom of religious belief is a fundamental human right. We support projects around the world to protect it. #HumanRightsDay pic.twitter.com/ieHBk0lWdz — Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (@FCDOGovUK) December 10, 2017 Today is #HumanRightsDay and the start of events…
The 2017 Freedom of Thought Report — on discrimination and persecution against humanists, atheists and the non-religious — highlights seven countries that have actively persecuted non-religious people this year. New incidents or trends in seven countries show active persecution of atheists and humanists in 2017 85 countries in total exhibit severe discrimination against non-religious individuals IHEU warns of impunity for…
The Officers of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief are deeply saddened by the attack on a mosque in Egypt’s North Sinai province which took place today. According to local police, men in four off-road vehicles opened fire on worshippers who were attending Friday prayers at the al-Rawda…
UN General Assembly Third Committee, 72nd Session, 49th meeting The representative of Egypt, speaking on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), introduced a draft resolution titled “Combating intolerance, negative stereotyping, stigmatization, discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against persons, based on religion or belief” (document A/C.3/72/L.37). The draft was a follow-up to the…
The Commission on Security & Cooperation in Europe: U.S. Helsinki Commission briefing Religious Freedom Violations in the OSCE Region Participants: Ambassador Michael Kozak, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, U.S. Department of State; Dr. Daniel Mark, Chairman, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom; Dr. Kathleen Collins, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota; Philip Brumley, General Counsel, Jehovah’s…
UN Geneva Universal Periodic Review Side-Event Highlights the Ongoing and Systematic Persecution of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Pakistan Today, the Coordination of Associations and Individuals for Freedom of Conscience, (CAP) held a side event at the Palais des Nations alongside Pakistan’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the United Nations Human Rights Council. The side event…
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday affirmed the rights of devotees of faiths outside the country’s officially recognized religions, in a move activists welcomed as a “new chapter for religious freedom”. Against a backdrop of rising intolerance toward minorities in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation, the court said Indonesians would not be required…