Bishops from Nigeria ask the UK Parliament to consider the underlying drivers for the mass displacement of over 3 million people who wish to return to their lands to farm and to live in peace.
The APPG on International Freedom of Religion or Belief celebrates the release of Mahvesh Sabet, a 71-year-old Iranian Baha’i prisoner of conscience jailed by the Islamic Republic for over 13 years for her beliefs. Mahvesh is an award-winning poet and teacher from Iran. She spent several long years in detention between 2008 and 2017, until…
This week in Parliament, MPs, stakeholders, activists, students, and visitors gathered together to engage in conversation about the human rights crisis currently happening in North Korea. The APPG on North Korea hosted a powerful film screening by defector and director Mr. Heo Young C., exposing the harrowing reality of women and children trafficked and repatriated…
Parachinar’s Growing Humanitarian Crisis: Urgent Action Needed At a recent APPG FoRB meeting, experts from various fields came together to highlight the escalating humanitarian crisis in Parachinar. The discussion was moderated by Maryam Anwar from the AlKhoei Foundation, and included distinguished professors, authors, religious scholars, activists, and a human rights defender and lawyer based in…
Jim Shannon MP asked the following Business Question on 13 Feb 2025:
“I wish to highlight the case of Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a Nigerian Sufi musician sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2020. in March 2020, authorities arrested Sharif-Aminu, a musician and follower of the Sufi islamic beliefs, after a series of audio messages circulated via WhatsApp were made public of him for sharing allegedly “blasphemous” song lyrics on WhatsApp about …..
Transnational repression includes cross-border acts of intimidation, violence, harassment against people by one state (State A) in another (State B). There is no universally accepted definition of transnational repression and there is no published definition in the UK. Freedom House defines transnational repression as a set of physical and digital tactics used by governments to…
At the EU parliamentary launch of the World Watch List 2025, MPs heard from speakers from Cameroun, Pakistan, and North Korea.
Open Doors Europe 28 January 2025 Several members of the European Parliament, diplomats, policymakers, organization representatives, religious leaders, and activists gathered in Brussels to hear the 2025 World Watch report by Opens Doors International. They heard poignant testimonies by survivors of FORB abuses in Cameroun, North Korea, and Pakistan. Lukas Mandl, MEP Austria, opened by…
Safeguarding Freedom of Religion or Belief: Open Doors Event in EU Parliament
Through the World Watch List 2025, Open Doors UK highlighted the escalating persecution of Christians worldwide. The launch underscored the importance of defending freedom of religion or belief as a fundamental human right, with Blyth concluding, “What we demand for ourselves, we must support for others.”