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UN Report Focuses on Children’s Rights, Particularly Minorities and Converts

    In the report, which was presented to the UN General Assembly in New York, Heiner Bielefeldt says that every child must be respected as...

Egypt Rights Groups Demand Immediate Release of Activist Bahgat

    The undersigned organisations call for the immediate and unconditional release of the journalist Hossam Bahgat who has been arbitrarily detained solely for the peaceful...

Egypt State TV Suspends Host for ‘Lack of Neutrality’

    The state-run Egyptian Radio and TV Union (ERTU) announced on Monday it has suspended a local channel host and her crew for lack of...

UN Secretary-General ‘Concerned About Detention of Rights Defender in Egypt’Anchor

  This is just the latest in a series of detentions of human rights defenders and others that are profoundly worrying to the Secretary-General.   The Secretary-General...

Syrian Christians in a European No-Man’s Land

    As European countries continue to struggle to absorb hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria and other parts of the Middle East and Africa,...

Leading Journalist and Rights Advocate Interrogated by Egyptian Military

    After several hours, he was transferred to Military Prosecution, where several lawyers headed as soon as news was received that Bahgat was to be...

Egypt Detains a Top Journalist as Fears of a Crackdown Grow

    The detention of Hossam Bahgat, 36, has been widely regarded as a signal of the Egyptian government’s ongoing clampdown on its critics.   The circumstances of...

Iraq Passes Law Forcing Children to Convert to Religion of Muslim Parent

  Assyrians, Yazidis, Mandeans, Kakai and Bahai leaders vigorously fought the law and their representatives walked out of the Parliament session in protest after it...

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