On 26 February 2021, news broke in the early morning that an unidentified group of gun-wielding assailants abducted some 317 Nigerian schoolgirls in a midnight ambush on Jangebe Government Girls’ Secondary School. Zamfara State’s Commissioner of Information, Hon. Saluiman Tunau Anka, confirmed that the kidnapping occurred sometime around midnight, and that some of the students …
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On Monday, February 22, 2021, the Canadian parliament’s House of Commons passed a non-binding motion to formally designate the Chinese government’s persecution and treatment of the Uyghur population as genocide. The landmark decision, spearheaded by the Conservative Party, passed through the House on a vote of 266-0. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been relatively unwilling …
In mid-February, the Religious Liberty Commission of the Evangelical Fellowship of India reported that, similarly to the stream of incidents of violence and persecution against Indian Christians that took place in January, the frequency has remained steady this month. Within just the first fifteen days of February 2021, eleven incidents were reported; also as is …
On Tuesday, 16 February, President Biden participated in a CNN Town Hall in which he addressed questions regarding coronavirus relief and vaccination rollout plans, the possibility of schools reopening, and the United States’ relationship with China. The latter topic heavily focused on China’s human rights abuses against Uyghur and Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, as well …
In late 2020, yet another harrowing case of abduction and forced religious conversion came out of Pakistan and drew international attention and outcry. This time, 14-year-old Roman Catholic girl Maira Shahbaz, was abducted in broad daylight in April of 2020, being forced at gunpoint into an unknown car. Shahbaz reveals how her kidnapper, Mohamed Nakash, …
In February 2021, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom released its updated factsheet on the pervasive violence in northern Nigeria at the hands of radical Islamist militant groups Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), who, together, have caused no less than 37,500 civilian deaths within the past decade. Boko Haram’s …
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Last week, on 4 February 2021, the Hong Kong Education Bureau (HK EDB) issued a new set of regulations for schools pursuant to the novel Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (a.k.a. the Hong Kong National Security Law) which was implemented in June …
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On 11 January 2021, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet published her report Promoting accountability in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in which she observed the human rights situation in North Korea seven years after the Commission of Inquiry’s 2014 assessment. This landmark seven-year-old report revealed the horrifying and exhaustive …
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In early February 2021, the BBC published chilling details of what the struggle was like for a group of Uyghur women that survived months on end in China’s mass internment system in Xinjiang. Of no shock to the international community that has for the past three years exposed China’s crimes against humanity and human rights …
On Monday, 1 February 2021, the world watched on with shock as Tatmadaw, the official military of Myanmar, staged a massive coup, effectively seized control of the government, and declared a year-long state of emergency. The coup came hot on the heels of an election in which the National League for Democracy, headed by Chancellor …
