Law and Religion Headlines
Thursday, 15 November 2012
UN: Family planning pays huge benefit for developing countries
(Lisa Schlein, Voice of America New)
Uzbekistan: "They simply prayed together"
(Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18 News Service)
Woman denied haircut goes to Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
(Tim Alamenciak, The Star.com)
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Abbott wants child abuse to be reported
(AAP, The Australian)
African Union asks UN to authorize Mali deployment
(Kirubel Tadesse, Associated Press)
Autralian prime minister announces royal commission will probe child sex abuse
(AAP, The Australian)
Canada: Sikhs divided over baptism resolution
(Tom Zytaruk, The Now Newspaper)
Defiant Cardinal George Pell says sex abuse royal commission will 'separate fact from fiction'
(AAP, News.com.Au)
In Russia, fears of Central Asians being abducted to face rough justice at home
(Daisy Sindelar and Tom Balmforth, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)
Indonesia: UN urges to address ‘lawful’ persecution
(Margareth S. Aritonang and Yohana Ririhena, The Jakarta Post)
Israeli strike kills Hamas commander
(Joshua Mitnick and Charles Levinson, The Wall Street Journal)
Jamaica stops preaching on public buses
(Jamaica Gleaner)
Miscreants trying to create sectarian strife in Karachi: PM
(Associated Press of Pakistan)
Murgan Salem al-Gohary, Egyptian jihadist, wants pyramids and sphinx destroyed
(Cavan Sieczkowski , Huff Post Religion)
November surprise: The United States wins second term on UN Human Rights Council
(Guest Blogger for Stewart M. Patrick, The Internationalist (Council on Foreign Relations))
Parents to appeal ruling that religion classes don't discriminate against the non-religious
(Rachel Baxendale, The Australian)
President congratulates FM for Pakistan’s election to UN’s Human Rights Council
(APP, AAJ News)
Religious freedom award for Nigerian Christian leader
(Christian Post)
U.S. to legitimize U.N. Human Rights Council for three more years
(Anne Bayefsky, The Alegemeiner)
UN refugee agency urges countries to open borders to people fleeing Myanmar’s Rakhine state by boat
(UN News Centre)
UNHRC Periodic Review Working Group, meeting highlights, fourteenth session
Why not polygamy?
(John Witte Jr., The Washington Post)
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Abu Qatada: Preventing a flagrant denial of justice
(Jim Duffy, UK Human Rights Blog)
Bin Laden's right hand man Abu Qatada goes free
(Herald Sun (Melbourne))
Dalai Lama presses China to investigate Tibetan self-immolations
(Lisa Twaronite, Jonathan Thatcher, Reuters)
Extremist wins case against expulsion
(Mark Hennessy, Irish Times)
Human Rights Council elections results
(UN Watch)
India: Can Hindu law cover Sikhs, Jains, asks SC
(Dhananjay Mahapatra, The Times of India)
Japan: Abduction and deprivation of freedom for the purpose of religious de-conversion
(VIDEO of the Event, Human Rights Without Frontiers)
Libertad Religiosa en Los Estados Unidos de America, LA. Un estudio a través del sistema educativo y de la educación en familia
(Briones Martinez, I.M., Atelier Libros Jurídicos)
Morocco reacts to terror arrests
(Siham Ali, Magharebia)
Putin agrees to go slow on law against hurting believers' feelings
(Interfax-religion via Stetson University)
Religious oppression continues to increase
(Shayne Looper, Enterprise News)
Russia: Anti-Mormon demonstration a diversion
(Gazeta.ru, Russia Religion News (Stetson University))
Russia: Khakamada to initiate alternative bill on protection of believers' feelings in rights council
(Interfax-religion)
Saudi Arabia denounces Bahrain blasts
(MENAFN - Arab News)
The current Talibani assault on the Pakistani nation
(P. K. Upadhyay, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Tibet: Self-immolations continue amid heightened Chinese security
(Eurasia Review)
Tunisian Jews demand protection from extremists
(Monia Ghanmi, Magharebia)
Uganda to pass anti-gay bill this year
(Manila Bulletin)
UN: Noncompetitive elections weaken Rights Council, says HRW
(Eurasia Review)
Vatican launches 'anti-gay media blitz,' compares gay marriage to polygamy, polyandry
(Dominique Mosbergen, Huff Post Religion)
Monday, 12 November 2012
At UN, Pakistan calls for collectively combating religious intolerance
(Associated Press of Pakistan)
Ukrainian Christian Churches urge V. Yanukovych to veto amendments to the Law on Freedom of Conscience
(Institute for Religious Freedom)
Anti-gay marriage group targets Starbucks Middle East business
(Travis Pittman and Elizabeth Wiley, KING 5 News)
Egypt: Brief Salafi occupation of Coptic land part of larger problem, Copts say
(Eurasia Review)
Getting back to Soviet standard? Ukraine’s administration wants control over all religious organizations
(Oksana Klymonchuk, The Day (Kjiv))
Hindus urge new Archbishop of Canterbury to promote interfaith dialogue
(Eurasia Review)
Israel fires missile into Syria, first since 1973
(GenevaLunch.com)
Kazakhstan: Religion Law restricting faith in the name of tackling extremism?
(Joanna Lillis, EurasiaNet.org)
Lebanon: Harirism exposed
(Mohammad Aslam, Foreign Policy in Focus)
Let's talk about religious faiths in Auckland
(Dionne Christian, The New Zealand Herald)
Liberals vs. Salafis: The fight to contain the Muslim Brotherhood
(Mustafa Salama, Al Arabiya News)
Muslim cleric shot dead in Dagestan
(Ria Novosti)
No compulsion in religion ....
(Robert Hunt, Patheos Blog - Interfaith Encounters)
PM's religoius advisor: There should be an understanding among Muslim leaders
(The Star Online)
Religious freedom concerns in Russia
(Statement by the European Association of Jehovah's Christian Witnesses, OSCE HDIM)
Selection by religion 'should be banned in state schools'
(Graeme Paton, The Telegraph)
Shanghai surprises: Religious tourism in the 'New New York'
(Noel Irwin Hentschel, Huffington Post)
The caretaker of ‘Allah’s House’ in Hanoi
(VietnamNet Bridge)
Tibetans in SF protest Chinese repression
(John King, San Francisco Chronicle)
To some Mennonites in Mexico, Russia looks like Promised Land
(Tim Johnson, The Kansas City Star)
Tunisia battles over pulpits, and revolt’s legacy
(Neil MacFarquhar, The New York Times)
Uncertainty hangs over post-Mendes Ethiopia
(Jerome Mwanda, InDepth News (IDN))
Vatican historian says church is not losing same-sex marriage battle
(Matthew Brown, Deseret News)
Sunday, 11 November 2012
'No compulsion in religion' only for non-believers?
(Malaysiakini)
40 Islamists file lawsuit accusing ElBaradei of 'insulting sharia'
(Ahram Online)
Australia: Non-religious tax avoidance
(Max Wallace, On Line Opinion)
Egypt's ultraconservative Muslims rally demanding bigger role for Islamic law in constitution
(Associated Press, Fox News)
How to end government intolerance of Islam in Ethiopia – OpEd
(Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, Eurasia Review)
Inda: School bridging the religious differences
(Syed Ali Mujtaba Syed, The Ground Report India)
Malaysia: Common understanding needed among Muslim leaders to protect Islam – PM's religious advisor
(Bernama)
Malaysia: Nurul Issah's statement politicising religious belief, says Home Minister
(Bernama)
Malaysia: Who’s politicising religion here?
(Ahmed Zakaria, The Malaysian Insider)
This week in religion history: Where God's law cannot be next to man's law
(Canadian Press, National Post)
UN gets it right re: religious freedom
(Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow)
USCIRF deeply concerned by emerging religious freedom violations in Ethiopia
(United States Commission on International Religious Freedom)
Saturday, 10 November 2012
A vague role for religion in Egyptian draft constitution
(David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times)
Achieving Malala Yousafzai’s dream for education in Pakistan
(Rabia Alavi, Common Ground News Service)
Egypt Muslims sisters rise with conservative vision
(Maggie Fick, Associated Press)
Malaysia: Nurul not anti-Islam, but a true Muslim
(Malaysiakini)
Religious education: For tolerance or fanaticism?
(Samsul Maarif, Jakarta Post)
Friday, 9 November 2012
Azerbaijan: Former prisoners of consciences' homes raided, literature confiscated
(Felix Corley, Forum 18 News Service)
Bahrain security boosted around opposition Mosque
(Reem Khalifa, Associated Press via Yahoo! News)
Bahraini police kill teen headed to Friday prayers
(RT)
China mobilizes paramilitary to suppress Tibetan protest after another self-immolation
(Eurasia Review)
Egyptian Islamists rally for Shariah Law
(Aya Batrawy, Associated Press via Times)
Hatred 'locks Myanmar's Rohingya in legal limbo'
(Amélie Bottollier-Depois, AFP via Google News)
Militiamen ‘behind Italian priest’s killing’
(Kerima Bulan T. navales, UCA News)
Nigeria: CAN alleges conspiracy to cause religious war
(All Africa)
Nigeria: Muslim leader wants veil for female students
(Vanguard)
Tibetan official says inciting self-immolation is "crime of murder"
(China Daily)
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Ansar al-Din new position raises questions
(Jemal Oumar, Magharebia)
Civics clashes with religion as women face bans from some Indian shrines
(Arnika Thakur, Reuters Blog - India Insight)
Czech parliament OKs landmark religious compensation law
(Associated Press, The Boston Globe)
Haji Ali curbs women's entry, activists protest
(Hindustan Times)
Human rights review, Pakistan: ‘Govt should admit its helplessness’
(Ali Usman, The Express Tribune)
India: Religion no bar for Diwali celebrations in city
(Mugdha Variyar and Anagha Sawant, Hindustan Times)
Malawi lauded on anti-gay law moratorium
(Raphael Tenthani, Associated Press)
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