Jubilee Campaign HRC 45 Side Event: “China Bans Faith for All Children”
Event transcript below: To read Jubilee Campaign’s corresponding report, ‘China Bans Faith for All Children’, please click here.
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Jubilee Campaign Hosts United Nations Human Rights Council Side Event: “China Bans Faith for All Children”
On October 5, 2020, human rights and religious freedom NGO Jubilee Campaign hosted their side event to the United Nations Human Rights Council 45th Session, titled China Bans Faith for All Children. This event, which featured both expert speakers as well as survivors of persecution in China, seeks to inform international activists about China’s violations …
Jubilee Campaign et al. Urge the State Department to Designate Nigeria as Country of Particular Concern
October 1, 2020United States Secretary of State Mike PompeoUnited States Department of State2201 C St., NWWashington, DC 20520 cc:1. Ambassador Sam Brownback2. Assistant Secretary Bob Destro3. Ms. Sarah Makin, International Religious Freedom Advisor, NSC Letter calling on the State Department to Designate Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern Dear Secretary Pompeo, We are grateful …
#HRC45 Oral Statement on China’s violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
Jubilee Campaign drew the Council’s attention to the People’s Republic of China’s continuous and increasing violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Already in 2013 the Committee on the rights of the child urged China to not discriminate regarding the right to religious freedom for Uighur and Tibetan children, including children of …
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#HRC45 Oral Statement – Repeal Apostasy laws
On the 24 September 2020, Jubilee Campaign addressed the Human Rights Council, welcoming the repeal of the apostasy law in Sudan and calling for other countries to follow their example. Jubilee Campaign highlighted the Secretary General’s report A/HRC/42/28 which called for the repeal the death penalty for apostasy. Watch and read the full oral statement …
PRESS RELEASE: NGOs Release Rejoinder to Nigeria Response to UK APPG Report “Nigeria: Genocide Unfolding?”
Read the full rejoinder here Summary of the claims that the Nigerian government made and the rejoinder response: 1) Information in the report is political and the Nigerian government continues to uphold the constitutional fundamental freedoms. Disingenuous – This report was not written to generate a political discussion or ‘criticize’ the Nigerian government’s response but …
#HRC45: Interactive Dialogue on the report of Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar
Myanmar continues to disrespect the ceasefire rules and target religious minorities but also the Buddhists in the Arakan [known as Rakhine] state. Jubilee Campaign raised this at the Human Rights Council session, September 2020. You can read the full oral statement below. Jubilee Campaign also submitted a written statement raising the persecution of religious minorities …
Jubilee Campaign Press Release: Letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-In Regarding Religious Persecution During Pandemic
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jubilee campaign delivers Joint letter calling on the south koreaN Government to cease religious persecution in response to covid-19 The letter from 266 organizations and 14,832 individuals representing 57 countries highlights the troubling practices of the South Korean government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. WASHINGTON D.C., September 1, 2020 – Jubilee …