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 …
On September 29, 2020, Amnesty International released some disheartening news that its operations in India would be ending.
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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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 …
Amnesty International has released a groundbreaking report discussing the plethora of human rights violations that refugees and migrants in Libya suffer on a daily basis.
On September 23, 2020, Barnabas Fund received news and subsequent confirmation from their contacts on the ground that Eritrea has formally released 69 Christian prisoners of conscience- some of whom have been in imprisoned for almost two decades- in a new wave of releases. This major step follows the September 4th release of 27 Christians, …
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Jubilee Campaign participated during the Human Rights Council’s 45th Session’s Interactive Dialogue with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. Thanks to ChinaAid, Grace Gao – the human rights lawyers Gao Zhisheng’s daughter, was able to raise the case of China’s involvement in the enforced disappearance her father. Read her full statement below: Oral …
#HRC45 Human Rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng’s daughter addresses the Human Rights Council Read More »
On September 11, it was confirmed by Christian Solidarity Worldwide that 27 Eritrean Christian prisoners of conscience were released from Mai Serwa Prison near Asmara in early September, likely due to the increasing dangers of COVID-19 in detention centers across the world
In late August 2020, the public’s fears that Hong Kong’s new National Security Law would allow Hong Kong citizens to be arrested for their political activism and tried under China’s convoluted and corrupt justice system have regretfully come true.
