Protecting Religion or Proscribing Expression? Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law
Defamation of the Prophet Muhammad in Pakistan is punishable by death, under the state’s blasphemy law. As a State Party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Pakistan is...
View ArticleThe Role of Religion on Justice in Latin America Today
American University’s Center for Latin American & Latino Studies presented a panel February 28, 2014 on “Religion & Justice in Latin America Today,” examining religions, but primarily the...
View ArticleDushanbe Mayor Bans Non-Traditional Music
Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev, the mayor of Dushanbe, Tajikistan, signed a resolution outlawing certain genres of music from the city’s buses and taxis. In early 2014, Radio Ozodi, Radio Free Europe’s Tajik...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Releases Report on Abuse of Transgender Individuals in...
A recent Human Rights Watch report, “I’m Scared to Be a Woman: Human Rights Abuses against Transgender People in Malaysia,” chronicles the abuse of transgender individuals in Malaysia and has revealed...
View ArticleInternational Bar Association Documents Threats to Two Sri Lankan Human...
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has called on the Sri Lankan government to protect Namal Rajapakshe and Manjula Pathiraja, two human rights lawyers who have received...
View ArticleResponse to Charlie Hebdo Attack Should Not Exacerbate Already Tenuous Human...
Photo of Charlie Hebdo office on Rue de Turbigo by Brigitte Djajasasmita on Flickr, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. On January 7, 2015, armed gunmen stormed the office of French satirical magazine,...
View ArticleAmnesty International Decries Murder of Coptic Christians in Libya
by Menendj, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 Amnesty International has called the gruesome beheading of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya by the Tripoli Province of Islamic State a “war crime and an attack on...
View ArticleBahrain Center for Human Rights Reports on Shia Discrimination in Bahrain
by Mahmood Al-Yousif, licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0 The Bahrain Center for Human Rights recently put out a press statement regarding a report jointly released with Americans for Democracy and Human...
View ArticleSocial Media, The Unexpected Instigator in Israeli and Palestinian Tensions
Photo courtesy of Flickr user Rusty Stewart, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Recent tensions between Israel and Palestine have surfaced due to disputes over the future of the Old City of Jerusalem, an...
View ArticleImpact of Extractive Industries on the Sacred Sites of Indigenous Peoples in...
Petitioners address the IACHR (Photo courtesy of Inter-American Commission on Human Rights via Flickr, licensed under CC BY 2.0) Commissioners: Felipe González, Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, and Rosa María...
View ArticleActivists Call for the Pope to Address Human Rights in Africa
Photo courtesy of Flickr user US Papal Visit, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Human rights activists have called for Pope Francis to address human rights in Africa during the Pope’s first official...
View ArticlePrison Sentence for Homosexuality in Tunisia
Photo Credit: Andrea Flynn-Schneider In September 2015, a Tunisian court sentenced a 22-year-old student to one year in prison for homosexuality after he allegedly failed an anal exam that the public...
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