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Communications Officer Whether fuelled by political and religious leaders, or the media, hate speech in Iraq taps into deeper problems of structural inequality in society and has been greatly exacerbated by conflict and Covid-19 in recent months, as uncovered by researchers from Independent Media Organization in Kurdistan (IMOK), part of the IDS-led Consortium for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) programme. Engaging leaders, training journalists and equipping civil society a...

The most intriguing books on religion we read this year Our reading list this year, like the rest of our lives, was colored by the triple whammy of 2020: the pandemic, the racial justice protests and the presidential election. Photo by Jason Leung/Unsplash/Creative Commons December 23, 2020 (RNS) — Our reading list this year, like the rest of our lives, was colored by the triple whammy of 2020: the pandemic, the racial justice protests and the presidential election. But given th...

Published on 17 December 2020 Save Darfur activists from Orange County. Credit: Genocide Intervention Network (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) The roundtable, which included parliamentarians, civil servants, researchers and NGO representatives, heard from the following speakers: Archbishop Angaelos, Founder and Director of Refcemi Professor Mohammed Ihsan, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London and former senior official with the Iraqi Government Dr Enve...