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…
Q Asked by Lord Alton of Liverpool on: 23 October 2017 – Foreign and Commonwealth Office Religious Freedom HL2309 To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to mark International Freedom of Religion or Belief day on 27 October; whether they will publish details of those countries responsible for violations of Article 18 of the Universal…
Commonwealth Summit 2018 – Question for Short Debate in the House of Lords on 2nd November 2017. Baroness Berridge: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Chidgey, for securing this debate, and declare an interest as the co-project director of the Commonwealth Initiative for Freedom of Religion or Belief and co-chair of the all-party parliamentary…
Foreign Office Minister Mark Field gave a statement in Parliament on the government’s commitment to promoting freedom of religion or belief: I am delighted to represent the Government in this debate and, along with everyone else, to congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) on securing it on such an important occasion….