Egypt Launches 5-Year Human Rights Plan Amidst Religious Freedom DebateSeptember 23, 2021 — 09/23/2021 Egypt (International Christian Concern) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi announced a National Strategy for Human Rights for the next five years on September 11, the first human rights protection...
Iraq Launches 5 Year Human Rights PlanAugust 13, 2021 — 08/13/2021 Iraq (International Christian Concern) – Iraq adopted a five-year plan for the protection and building of human rights on July 26. The new Human Rights National Action Plan was launched...
Biden Administration Continues to Push Human Rights in Meetings with Saudi OfficialsAugust 11, 2021 — 08/11/2021 Saudi Arabia (International Christian Concern) - Yesterday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and emphasized to him the need...
Conservatives Push for Resurrection of Canadian Office of Religious FreedomsMarch 24, 2021 — 03/24/2021 Canada (International Christian Concern) - Calls are being made in Canada for the resurrection of the Office of Religious Freedoms with advocates saying that it’s closure by Liberals within the Canadian...
Senate Moves to Establish Human Rights CommissionMarch 2, 2021 — 03/02/2021 United States (International Christian Concern) – U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Chris Coons (D-DE), who currently serve as the co-chairs of the Senate Human Rights Caucus, introduced a...
United States Seeks Return to UN Human Rights CouncilMarch 1, 2021 — 03/1/2021 United States (International Christian Concern) - The United States is seeking to return the United Nations Human Rights Council nearly three years after it was removed from the body...
UN Expert Condemns Egypt’s Detention of Human Rights DefendersFebruary 12, 2021 — 02/12/2021 Egypt (International Christian Concern) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and their families has expressed concern over the Egyptian regime’s increasing crackdown...
UN Releases New Report on Human Rights in North KoreaFebruary 3, 2021 — 02/03/2021 North Korea (International Christian Concern) – In a 2014 report to the UN Human Rights Council, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) concluded that the human rights...
Vietnamese Catholic Activist Arrived in the U.S. for AsylumNovember 26, 2020 — 11/26/2020 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – A Vietnamese Catholic activist, who joined to protest the Nghe An police harassment of students organizing religious activities and was arrested, has arrived in...
Sudan Overturns Apostasy Law, NGOs Say It’s Not EnoughAugust 19, 2020 — 08/19/2020 Sudan (International Christian Concern) – In a stunning turn last month, Sudan’s current government overturned the long standing apostasy law. This law stated that those in Sudan who were...
Anti-Terror Act in Philippines Might Lead to Rights AbuseJuly 6, 2020 — 07/06/2020 Philippines (International Christian Concern) – On July 3, President Rodrigo Duterte signed the controversial anti-terrorism bill into law, which many fear would pave the way for rights abuses including...
Rights Group Urges EU to Highlight Religious Freedom in Vietnam DialogueFebruary 21, 2020 — 02/21/2020 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – On February 19, Human Rights Watch (HRW) submitted recommendations to the EU, asking the entity to focus on five priority areas regarding the dire...
More Than 70 Groups Urge Seoul to Confront Rights Abuses in North KoreaDecember 21, 2019 — 12/21/2019 North Korea (International Christian Concern) – A coalition of human rights and other organizations have joined force to urge South Korea to stop ignoring human rights abuses being committed...
Human Rights Worst Ever as Communist China Celebrates 70th AnniversaryOctober 2, 2019 — 10/02/2019 China (International Christian Concern) – 15,000 military personnel from the People’s Liberation Army marched in front of Tiananmen Square yesterday, as more than 100,000 civilians cheered and watched their...
Pastor in Southern Philippines Fears For Safety Over Red-taggingSeptember 4, 2019 — 09/04/2019 Philippines (International Christian Concern) – After posters and flyers were distributed last week branding him as a communist rebel, a pastor in southern Philippines has voiced concern over his...
Death Threats Won’t Stop Church Workers from Fighting for JusticeAugust 25, 2019 — 08/25/2019 Philippines (International Christian Concern) – Like many other church workers in the central Philippine province of Negros, Zara Alvarez could potentially lost her life for standing alongside poor farmers....
