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National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) members have stressed the need for taking non-Muslims on board in the legislative and policymaking process during a consultative meeting on the rights of minority groups held here on Monday.

The UN Human Rights Committee has again found that the authorities violated the rights of Jehovahs Witnesses by arbitrarily refusing their communities in Naryn, Osh and Jalal-Abad state registration. The State Commission for Religious Affairs must review the denials, provide "adequate compensation", "take all steps necessary to prevent similar violations from occurring", and inform the UN of what it has done within 180 days. The SCRA ignored a similar 2019 UN decision. Deputy...

The National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR) held its first board meeting after the appointment of new Chairperson NCHR Rabiya Javeri Agha.

On 2 December, the upper house of Parliament approved in revised form amendments to the Religion Law to make holding religious events away from state-registered places of worship more difficult. The amendments now return to the lower house. The Senate narrowed the type of events that would need to undergo the burdensome process of seeking special official permission in advance. A legal specialist questions whether ordinary police officers would know that the new requirements – if adopted &...

The move shows that tech start-ups attacking climate issues can attract the most qualified engineers.

IHEARTMEDIA has named JOHN IVEY Pres./CHR Content Development & Strategy, effective immediately. In his new role he will focus on the recruitment, training, deployment and career growth of talent across all of iHEART’s CHR stations. IVEY will work closely with DENNIS CLARK, EVP/Talent Development, to coach and develop talent. He will continue to report to TOM POLEMAN, Chief Programming Officer and Pres. of the National Programming Group for iHEARTMEDIA.IVEY has served as Pres./CHR ...

Jehovahs Witness teaching "is contradictory and oriented towards people who dont know the fundamentals of religion and the Bible" and based on "the personal views of the founders of the organisation who misinterpret the Bible", NSC secret police chief Kamchybek Tashiyev claimed to the General Prosecutor in July. He called for their literature to be banned and a ban on the entire organisation to be considered (while the NSC continues a criminal case). Without informing Jehovah...

Freedom of religion and belief, with interlinked freedoms of expression, association, and assembly, remains severely restricted in Uzbekistan. Forum 18s survey analysis documents violations including: jailing and torturing prisoners of conscience whose only crime is to exercise their freedom of religion and belief; banning education and worship meetings without state permission; complete state control of all expressions of Islam; and religious literature censorship and destruction.

"This case is one of the first and it could create a European precedent," Raphaël Mahaim, one of the lawyers for the activists, told Reuters from Strasbourg. A spokesperson for the court did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Despite another European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decision that Azerbaijan violated the human rights of two more conscientious objectors, Saadat Novruzova of the Presidential Administrations Human Rights Protection Unit told Forum 18 that changing the law to introduce a civilian alternative to compulsory military service "is not under discussion". Azerbaijan committed to the Council of Europe to introduce an alternative service by January 2003. The 7 October ECtHR decision reminde...