Europe
Scientology launches youth guide promoting EU VALUES
Online initiative explains EU values, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights with official sources, scenarios and a self-check quiz
Category: Human Rights
Europe
Dobrota psych hospital allegations revive CRPD calls to end institutions
A complaint by Montenegro’s Human Rights Action, prompted by leaked preliminary findings linked to the Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee, has put the Special Psychiatric Hospital in Dobrota back under…
Economy
EU Funding at Risk When Public Tenders Impose Faith Tests
Audit rules designed to protect the EU budget can collide head-on with “faith-breaker” clauses that ask bidders or applicants to renounce a religious practice to access work, grants, or contracts.
Council of Europe
PACE unanimously rejects a possible new protocol on involuntary measures in mental health
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) in a unanimous decision reiterated its long-term position against a possible new protocol on the involuntary placement and involuntary treatment of…
Council of Europe
Senator Carmen Leyte: “We cannot endorse a text that could reinforce coercive measures”
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) debated involuntary and coercive measures in psychiatry. In a unanimous decision the Assembly reiterated its long-term position against such measures and…
Christianity
Belgium discusses the work of Orthodox prison chaplains
On February 7, a seminar of the Orthodox prison ministry in Belgium was held at the St. Andrew’s parish in Ghent. The event began with a Divine Liturgy in the…
Africa
UN Special Session on El-Fasher Spotlights Sudan’s Humanitarian Crisis Fueled by Arms and Commerce
As the Human Rights Council prepares to convene on February 9, growing evidence links external support—to atrocities in the Darfur region, while the gum arabic trade emerges as a critical…
Christianity
Orthodox Fundamentalism: Social Portrait and Sources (part 1)
By Konstantin Kostyuk Among the social changes in the post-Soviet period, a phenomenon such as Orthodox fundamentalism has increasingly attracted attention. Due to the long atheistic tradition and the secular…
Europe
Human Rights for Youth: Scientology’s Community Focus
KINGNEWSWIRE // Press release // United for Human Rights and Youth for Human Rights expand rights-literacy resources used by educators, civic groups and local partners across Europe BRUSSELS, Belgium —…
FORB
Jehovah’s Witnesses, the most persecuted religious minority in Putin’s country
Since 2017, over 900 criminal prosecutions, resulting in over 1,000 years of prison sentences on bogus charges of extremism Apart from several religious minorities in China, Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia are…