Posted by Matt on May 22, 2013 in Around the World, China, Uncategorized |
Henryk Szadziewski Senior Researcher, Uyghur Human Rights Project Late in 2012, in an undisclosed location and over cups of sweet tea, I sat down with a former Imam to talk about Uyghur religious freedom in China. The man, a Uyghur, had served as a religious leader for five years in a small village to the north of the Uyghur region before he fled China in 2010. With a faint light seeping through the drawn curtains to the room in which we were sitting and an unusually pervasive silence in the streets...
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Posted by Matt on May 21, 2013 in Reports |
This week Secretary Kerry announced the publication of the State Department’s annual International Religious Freedom (IRF)Report. No ‘Countries of Particular Concern’ (CPCs) were announced, nor did the report or any participant in the press conference indicate when CPC designations will be made. With the passage of the 1998 IRF Act, Congress mandated that the State Department make annual CPC designations. The current designations, made in August 2011 will expire in August 2013. You can view the IRF...
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Posted by Matt on May 21, 2013 in Interviews, Uncategorized, Videos |
Interview with Jacob Mchangama Director of legal affairs of CEPOS Co-Founder & Director of The Freedom Rights Project Venn: Would you share a little about your background and what inspired you to make “Collision! Free speech and religion?” Mchangama: I’m trained as a lawyer and worked in corporate finance for a number of years but always had an interest in human rights. Since 2009 I have worked as director of legal affairs in the Danish think tank CEPOS and last year I co-founded and became director...
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Posted by Matt on May 8, 2013 in Advocacy, Featured, Interviews, Uncategorized |
An Interview with Mr. Adel Guindy, President of Coptic Solidarity Venn: What do you see as the greatest current threat to freedom and equality for all Egyptians? Guindy: The conversion of Egypt, slowly but surely, into a theocratic fascistic state makes it the ‘law of the land’ that the fundamental principles of state, such as liberties and equality, retreat. Venn: Muslim protesters aided and observed by Egyptian security forces attacked St. Mark’s Cathedral a few weeks ago. Would you...
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Posted by Matt on May 1, 2013 in Reports, Uncategorized |
An Analysis of Department of State 2012 Nigeria Country Condition Report by Ann Buwalda Executive Director Jubilee Campaign Recent press reports from Plateau State of Nigeria indicate that the killing spree by Fulani herdsmen are rivaling that of the Boko Haram. Hundreds of Christians in the north and middle belt of Nigeria have lost their lives this year to both the Fulani herdsmen who descend on peaceful villages at midnight and kill children, women, and anyone found in their beds with guns and...
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Posted by Matt on Apr 29, 2013 in Uncategorized, United States |
A Beacon of Hope for Besieged Communities? By Representatives Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA) March 2, 2013 marked the two-year anniversary of the assassination of Shabbaz Bhatti, then Pakistan’s only Christian cabinet member. He was brutally gunned down outside of his mother’s home for daring to challenge his nation’s blasphemy laws. A special envoy could stand up for the Shabbaz Bhattis of the world, and the countless others whose names we do not know, but who are seeking justice, equality and...
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