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UN Human Rights Council Adopts Sixth Resolution on Child, Early and Forced Marriage – with New Language Addressing Coerced Religious Conversion
GENEVA, Switzerland – 9 August 2023 |The UN Human Rights Council officially adopts its 6th resolution on child, early and forced marriage on 12th July 2023, this year for the first time bringing visibility to cases such as Leah Sharibu with new language raising concern with the use of coerced conversions by armed groups. Jubilee …
Jubilee Campaign Raises Concern with the Enjoyed Impunity by Perpetrators of the Trafficking and Coerced Conversion of Coptic and other Indigenous and Religious Minority Women and Girls During the 53rd Human Rights Council Session’s Annual Discussion on Women
GENEVA, Switzerland – Jubilee Campaign addresses the Human Rights Council during the Annual Full-Day Discussion on the Human Rights of Women. Jubilee Campaign calls on the Council to ensure women enjoy the right to have and adopt the religion or belief of their choice by repealing anti-apostasy laws and discriminatory family laws and apprehend and prosecute …
Anwar Kenneth, a Christian Man on Death Row on Blasphemy Charges, Files Final Appeal Against the Death Sentence in Supreme Court of Pakistan
Lahore, 22 July – Anwar Kenneth, a Christian man who has been on death row for over 22 years, has filed a final appeal against his death sentence in the Supreme Court of Pakistan. This appeal comes as a desperate bid to overturn the original conviction, which was based on charges of blasphemy under section …
Algeria: Religious Prisoner of Conscience Hamid Soudad Released Following Reduced Sentence
WASHINGTON, D.C., 21 July 2023 – Jubilee Campaign welcomes the news of the release of Hamid Soudad, Christian exMuslim and member of the Evangelical protestant church of Algeria (EPA) on July 20th 2023. The release comes following a presidential decree commuting the five-year sentence against Hamid Soudad for Algeria’s Independence Day. Authorities have been detaining …
Jubilee Campaign Welcomes EU Resolution in Support of the Release of Yahaya Sharif Aminu and the Repeal of Anti-Blasphemy Laws in Nigeria
April 24, 2023 Washington DC | The resolution which passed the EU parliament nearly unanimously last Thursday called for the immediate withdrawal of the use of the capital punishment for blasphemy in Nigeria and to take steps towards its full abolition. Jubilee Campaign welcomes this resolution which brings much needed political and diplomatic attention to …
Pakistan Expands Criminalisation of Freedom of Conscience and Belief
WASHINGTON, D.C., Wednesday 18 January 2023 Pakistan’s National Assembly approved legislation on Tuesday, in violation of its human rights commitments, to extend the penalty of life imprisonment to additional blasphemy accusations. The new legislation increases the punishment for those accused of defaming wives, members and friends of Islam’s prophet Muhammed, with up to “life imprisonment” and not …
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Jubilee Campaign Joins USCIRF in Outrage Over the Absence of Nigeria on the CPC List
WASHINGTON, D.C 7 December 2022 – In the afternoon of the 2nd December the State Department quietly released its Country of Particular Concern (CPC). While several countries were listed – Nigeria [where InterSociety reported that Islamist militants killed 4 400 unarmed Christians] – was absent. “How many people have to be slaughtered before Nigeria is …
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