The human right that keeps on giving
Sep 29,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Kailash Satyarthi; Nobel Laureate, 2014 I once met a boy working on a cocoa farm whose only dream was someday to taste the rich brown […]
Russia plans to ban ‘baby boxes’ for unwanted infants
Source: BBC Russia is moving towards banning “baby boxes” – the hatches introduced in many countries where desperate mothers can safely abandon an unwanted infant. But there has been sharp […]
JORDAN: Watchdog calls for removing charge on ‘defamation of religion’
By JT – Sep 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday called on Jordan to remove blasphemy charges from the Kingdom’s legislation in a statement condemning the murder of Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar. “Jordan’s new Cabinet should take immediate steps to introduce legislation to […]
Iran opposes appointment of ‘Qadiani’ Asma Jahangir as UN Rapporteur on Human Rights
September 21, 2016 | by Rabwah Times | Iran has slammed the decision by United Nations to appoint Asma Jahangir as special rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran and called her out as a ‘Qadiani’, a derogatory term used for members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Sect. Pakistani Lawyer and Human […]
President Obama Addresses UN General Assembly – Full Speech on Refugee Crisis
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Barack Obama conceded Tuesday that the United States and other world powers have limited ability to solve the most profound challenges facing the world, while […]
It’s sad but true that in colonial times, our government was better at responding to human rights abuses abroad than it is now
Those we trust to represent us will not take up the battle against injustice these days because they are now too involved in the infliction of this injustice, albeit by proxy Robert Fisk @indyvoices Friday 5 August 2016 Yemen children waving national flags at rally in support of the Houthi rebels on […]
Syria: Forced Disappearances
Source: Aljazeera By Mohsin Ali More than 65,000 have vanished in Syria since 2011, according to The Syrian Network for Human Rights. They are victims of Forced (or Enforced) Disappearance – when a person is abducted, arrested or detained by the state or agents acting for the state, who then deny […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad: Genuine Justice cannot be established without creating a link with God
Source: Press Release The 50th Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the United Kingdom concluded on Sunday 14 August 2016 with a powerful and faith-inspiring address by the World Head […]
Video: Imran Khan on Equal Rights for All Ahmadi Muslims and Every Faith
.@mehdirhasan asks politician @ImranKhanPTI if he fears for his life when discussing Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.https://t.co/h5leWOIfjY — UpFront (@AJUpFront) July 27, 2016 Interviewer is Mehdi Hasan of Al Jazeera
I am a Muslim doctor. I saved a Christian in Pakistan and it nearly cost me my life
Guardian: I am a Pakistani medical doctor, currently receiving political asylum in the US for the past year and a half. I sought refuge here after having to go through much humiliation and outright hatred for trying to practice ethical medicine and for belonging to a religious minority in my […]
Gambia and Tanzania outlaw child marriage
Source: BBC The Gambia and Tanzania have banned child marriage, with tough penalties for those who breach the rulings. Gambia’s President Yayha Jammeh announced that anyone marrying a girl below […]
Muslim men in India speak out against triple talaq and halala
Source: Herald Muslim women’s rights collectives have long been campaigning against the practices of instant triple talaq, polygamy and nikaah–halala in India. Two Supreme Court cases by Shayara Bano and […]
British police accused of helping Saudi torturers
The Times: British police are teaching the Saudi Arabian regime to use high-tech detection skills despite accepting that they could “identify individuals who later go on to be tortured”. Senior MPs called last night for the suspension of the programme amid concerns about the human rights record of the Saudi […]
Hindus from Pakistan, Bangladesh will get to claim Indian citizenship
Times of India: New Delhi: In a move that is as much political as it is humanitarian, the home ministry is ready with draft amendments to citizenship law that will exempt minority citizens of Pakistan and Bangladesh who have come to India out of fear of religious prosecution from being […]
German Cardinal Makes Impassioned Plea For Migrants From A Refugee Boat
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. (Matthew 5:7) Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor “Someone who lets people drown in the Mediterranean […]
We need an immediate suspension of British military sales to Saudi Arabia
IBTimes: For over a year now, the British government has flatly rejected claims that the Saudi Arabian-led coalition has violated the laws of war during its conflict in Yemen, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Although the British government supplied nearly £3 billion worth of weapons and equipment to the […]
Reality Check – United States: Democracy or oligarchy? Mehdi Hasan on how money and racism undermine US democracy
Watch as Mehdi Hassan takes down the USA Listen here in Twitter United States: A ‘flawed democracy’?@AJUpFront @mehdirhasan‘s Reality Checkhttps://t.co/Nmvxu1THnk — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) May 12, 2016
Ideas Hub: The Problem with the Marrakesh Declaration
Source: Muslimwise A blog of the Centre of Islamic Studies at SOAS, University of London By Michael Mumisa (Shaykh) In January this year (2016), the “Marrakesh Declaration on the Rights of […]
Swapping voodoo convents for classrooms in Benin
Source: Aljazeera By Angela Singh Couffo, Benin – As the hazy morning air lifts, a group of villagers dance into focus, kicking up dust as they make their way down a […]
Humanists push for a National Day of Reason
Source: RNS By Kimberly Winston Kimberly Winston is a freelance religion reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She covers atheism and freethought for RNS. (RNS) Not all Americans […]