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How the Chinese Communist Party Robs Children of Their Religious Faith Commentary By Ann Buwalda is the executive director of the Jubilee Campaign, a Fairfax, Virginia-based human rights and religious freedom advocacy organization. The U.S. State Department on Dec. 7 designated China a “country of particular concern” for its systematic, egregious, and ongoing violations of the religious freedom of its citizens. The Chinese Communist Party has rightly been under scrutiny for its persecution ...

  DATELINE—ROME (First iteration 26 Nov 2020) The political significance of this vote is clear: NATO members and partners boycotted the Resolution which, first of all, calls into question Ukraine without naming it, whose neo-Nazi movements have been and are used by NATO for strategic purposes. The United Nations Third Committee - in charge of social, humanitarian and cultural issues - approved on November 18 the Resolution "Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices th...

#HumanRightsDay: We still have a lot of work to do The values of Human Rights Day are still being threatened all too often today. Join us in a campaign to send messages of hope to those imprisoned for exercising their rights 10 Dec 2020 The six individuals who we are sending messages to as part of our #JailedNotForgotten campaign Today we once again marked Human Rights Day. A day that gives us an opportunity to reflect on how far we’ve come as a society of nations and yet how far we still h...

Human Rights Day: Educator and reformer Hansa Jivraj Mehta at the UN (File Photo) Human Rights Day 2020: Two Indian women, Hansa Jivraj Mehta and Lakshmi Menon, played a pioneering role in the formulation of the Universal Human Rights Declaration (UDHR) in the mid-40s. On Human Rights Day we remember the two Indian women reformers who played a key role in making critical changes in the language of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Hansa Jivraj Mehta, the Indian delegate to the UN Commi...