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Iraqi Religious Authorities Adopt Interfaith Statement on Victims of ISIL
Iraqi Religious Authorities Adopt Interfaith Statement on Victims of ISIL
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Iraq: ISIL’s acts of terror ‘divorced from the values of all faiths’
Religious leaders from communities across Iraq called for greater “healing and reconciliation” during a UN-organized event on Thursday, reaffirming their commitment to support survivors of crimes perpetrated by ISIL terrorist fighters. Key signatories of a landmark Interfaith Statement on the Victims and Survivors of ISIL – representing Islam, the Christian church and other faiths –…
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“Making cities belong to those who work to build them”: Baha’i Chair in India looks at urbanization
Baha’i Chair in India invites economists and academics to examine how new conceptions of human nature can enhance long-term approaches to urban development.
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USCIRF Expresses Outrage at the Killing of U.S. Citizen Over Blasphemy Charges in Pakistan
USCIRF Expresses Outrage at the Killing of U.S. Citizen Over Blasphemy Charges in Pakistan
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Why using the language of war is counterproductive
Why using the language of war is counterproductive in our global public health crisis: some reflections from self-isolation Originally published at the Quaker Council for European Affairs One of the things that has really struck me in today’s peculiar times is the rhetoric of war used by many political leaders to talk about the COVID-19…
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New report on the Persecution of Ahmadi Muslims
New report on the Persecution of Ahmadi Muslims
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Book Trailer Launched for Massimo Introvigne’s Book on The Church of Almighty God
Marco Respinti, Director of Bitter Winter reports that it has already introduced to its readers the new book by its editor-in-chief Massimo Introvigne, Inside The Church of Almighty God: The Most Persecuted Religious Movement in China, published in 2020 by Oxford University Press. In this video book trailer, its author Massimo Introvigne explains some key…
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Guterres gives hard hitting Mandela Day message: “Inequality defines our time”
18 July 2020 UN NEWS – Human Rights Inequality, an issue which “defines our time”, risks destroying the world’s economies and societies, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a hard-hitting speech on Saturday. Mr. Guterres was delivering the 2020 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, held online for the first time, in light of the ongoing COVID-19…
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UN appoints new ECOSOC President
.@UNECOSOC has a new President: It is H.E. Mr. Munir Akram, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the @UN@PakistanPR_UN#UN75#GlobalGoals#SDGs#2030Agenda 23 July 2020UN Affairs Now is the time to implement policies and commitments to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and implement the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, the new…
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Srebrenica: Honour victims and survivors by preventing future atrocities, UN experts urge
Srebrenica : 25th Anniversary – Srebrenica Memorial Day, 11 July 2020 Remembering Srebrenica: Honour victims and survivors by preventing future atrocities, UN experts urge GENEVA (9 July 2020) – UN human rights experts today urged governments to honour victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide by building peaceful, inclusive and just societies to prevent a repetition…