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Iran: Belgian aid worker sentenced to 40 years in prison and 74 lashes

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The distraught family of a Belgian national held in Iran have appealed to their government to do its utmost to get him freed after he was sentenced to 40 years in prison and 74 lashes
Human Rights

Turkey breaks record for deportation of “illegal migrants”

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Turkey has deported 119,817 illegal migrants this year alone. Its efforts to combat illegal migration continue unabated, the Ministry of the Interior said. In a statement, the presidency said it was the largest number...
Europe

Europe rules to fight Human Trafficking

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Human Trafficking - Last December 19th 2022, the Commission proposed to strengthen the rules that prevent and combat trafficking in human beings. Every year over 7000 people become victims of human trafficking in the...
Human Rights

Kazakhstan deports defecting Russian officer

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Kazakhstan is preparing to deport a senior Russian security official who fled the country because he disagrees with the invasion of Ukraine and hoped to find refuge in the West. Hundreds of thousands of Russians...
Human Rights

Piracy and terrorism in the poorest country in the world

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A daring attack on a hotel in central Mogadishu turned into a 20-hour hostage crisis that left eight civilians dead. Such attacks are the most common news when it comes to one of the...
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Trial of Humanity vs Psychiatrist Ernst Rudin as part of the UN 2023 Holocaust Remembrance and Education program

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Theme “Home and Belonging” A mock trial on Psychiatrist Ernst Rudin will take place at the ECOSOC Room of the UN New York on January 31st 2023, as part of the UN 2023 Holocaust Remembrance and Education...
Human Rights

Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Scientology and Sikhism joined at the UN to protect Human Rights

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GENEVA, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, December 22, 2022 - At a time when human rights are under threat all over the world, both in so-called developing countries and in countries whose motto is linked to human...
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Russia – Four Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to prison for up to seven years

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On 19 December 2022, Judge Yana Vladimirova at the Birobidzhan District Court of the Jewish Autonomous Region passed harsh sentences to four Jehovah’s Witnesses for supposedly organizing and financing extremist activities while they were...
Bahai

The Bahrain Forum for Dialogue highlight religion’s pivotal role in social progress

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MANAMA, Bahrain — The discourse on coexistence in Bahrain has received renewed attention in recent weeks following a series of national gatherings titled “The Bahrain Forum for Dialogue: East and West for Human Coexistence,"...
Asia

TAIWAN – UN Human Rights Day and the Tai Ji Men Case

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UN Human Rights Day and the Tai Ji Men Case HRWF (20.12.2022) – The 10th of December is the day when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948 and it is commemorated...
Human Rights

Indonesia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and countries where extramarital sex is prohibited

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Sex has always been something completely normal, but in most cases it seems to be a taboo subject that people are afraid to talk about openly. Of course, there is the other extreme, where everything...
Human Rights

Prison for the mayor of Istanbul

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A Turkish court today sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu to prison and banned the opposition politician, who is seen as a strong potential challenger to President Tayyip Erdogan in next year's election, from political...
Human Rights

Footballer sentenced to death in Iran for “women’s rights campaign”

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An Iranian soccer player faces the death penalty for "campaigning for women's rights," Anadolu Agency reported, adding that earlier in the day the world players' union FIFPRO called on Tehran to overturn his punishment. "FIFPRO...
Human Rights

Bulgaria will extradite a Turkish colonel suspected of murdering a famous writer 20 years ago

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Goktash will remain in custody until he is handed over to the Turkish side Court of Appeal - Plovdiv overturned the decision of the Haskovo District Court, which refused to extradite the murder suspect, the...
Christianity

Kishan Manocha: “this extraordinary document [UDHR] is not a monument to human progress to be admired from afar”

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EINPRESSWIRE - Geneva, Switzerland. 74th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) - Over 30 speakers from Civil Society, Government, supranational organizations, Academia and Faith Communities, gathered in Room XVIII of the...
Human Rights

In North Macedonia, the chairman of the Bulgarian club in Bitola is being tried as a racist

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An accusation of racism and xenophobic acts has been officially brought against the chairman of the Bulgarian cultural club "Ivan Mihailov" in Bitola in the Republic of N. Macedonia, Lyupcho Georgievski. Georgievski must "appear as...
Bahai

QATAR – In the shadow of the Football World Cup, a forgotten issue: the situation of the Baha’is

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In the shadow of the Football World Cup in Qatar, voices of non-Muslims have been heard and listened to at the European Parliament at a conference organized on 6 December by Dutch MEP Bert-Jan...
Human Rights

A Chechen opposition blogger liquidated

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A Chechen opposition Telegram channel reports that prominent blogger and dissident Tumso Abdurakhmanov has been killed in Sweden, RFE reports. Channel 1ADAT on December 5 quoted unidentified sources as saying that Abdurakhmanov had been shot...
Human Rights

After 2 months of protests: Iran disbands moral police

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Iran has abolished its morality police after more than two months of protests sparked by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country's strict women's dress code, local media reported. Women-led protests...
Human Rights

This year‘s Nobel Peace Prize winner faces 12 years in prison

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This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bilyatsky, a long-time defender of human rights in Belarus, is threatened with a sentence of up to 12 years in prison in a case of currency smuggling,...
Human Rights

Actresses in Iran were photographed without hijab

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They supported the protests in the country Several Iranian actresses have photographed themselves without a hijab as a sign of support for the country's protests, AFP reported, citing a video shared on social networks. It is...
Human Rights

Patriarchate of Constantinople won a case in Strasbourg for church property in Istanbul

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A few days ago, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg announced that it respects the appeal of the board of trustees of the Church of the Holy Archangels in the Arnautkoy district...
Human Rights

Ayatollah‘s niece called on world to sever ties with Iran, arrested

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A niece of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is a prominent human rights activist, has called on governments around the world to sever ties with Iran over the Iranian authorities' violence against demonstrators, Reuters reported. A...
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Ukraine: Draft law on banning the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church

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HRWF (28.11.2022) – On 24 November, the website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine published the text of draft law No. 8221 banning the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church represented on the territory of...
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FECRIS under fire: 82 prominent Ukrainian scholars ask MACRON to stop funding it

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On November 11, 82 of the most prominent religious scholars of Ukraine, wrote a letter to the French President Emmanuel Macron about the funding of FECRIS.
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