We want to thank those of you who responded to our earlier, brief email regarding the death sentence received by Pastor Yousef. We wanted to take the time to send out a more extensive email detailing the history of Pastor Yousef’s case, along with our Press Release and materials for use in your churches. While this atrocious miscarriage [...] Read more »
Nepal Moves To Restrict Religious Freedom
We ask for your prayers. While Jubilee Campaign has been working hard to promote religious freedom in Nepal, the tools available to us work slowly. Unfortunately, the political landscape of a nation in transition changes very rapidly, and we may have run out of time. On Monday, the Prime Minister of Nepal promised to negotiate an agreement on [...] Read more »
Jubilee Campaign seeks improved ICC operations
July 25th, The Hague, The Netherlands – International Human Rights Non-governmental organization, Jubilee Campaign, is seeking the improvement of the International Criminal Court’s processes to expedite the handling of investigations and review of reported crimes against humanity. After meetings with the ICC in an attempt to find out the status of preliminary examinations the ICC prosecutor had announced [...] Read more »
Mob Boss on the Police Force: The D.P.R.K and the UN Conference on Disarmament
To the Member States of the United Nations and the Human Rights Community: Permitting the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K.) to chair the United Nations Conference on Disarmament makes a mockery of this once noble institution. The Conference on Disarmament was established in 1978 to create a single negotiating forum for the purpose of international disarmament. It [...] Read more »
UN Defamation Resolution Threatens Freedom of Religion
Over the past decade several actors on the UN scene have been passing resolutions against “Defamation of Religion.” These resolutions condemn anything which offends “religious sensibilities” as racism and hate-speech. Unfortunately the resolutions provide support for blasphemy and similar laws, like the ones which have been used to brutally suppress dissent and religious minorities in Pakistan, Egypt, Iran [...] Read more »