HUMAN RIGHTS

Tennessee Woman Wins Complaint Over Forced Removal of Hijab by Authorities

Thanks to Johnston’s settlement, no one else will endure what she did.

Religious Freedom at Stake in Jehovah’s Witnesses Suit Against Norway

Jehovah’s Witnesses, the first ever of 700 recognized religious communities in Norway to lose their national registration, are suing the state.

“What America Is All About”: USCIRF Celebrates 25 Years of the International Religious Freedom Act

“America cannot stop all these horrors, but it can shine a light on them and that’s what makes this commission so valuable.”

European Court of Human Rights Again Upholds Religious Freedom, Handing Down Victory for the Church of Scientology

The Church of Scientology has to date won every case it has brought before the ECHR to protect the rights of its members to freely practice their religion in the Russian territory.

In Victory for Religious Freedom, European Court of Human Rights Sanctions Russian State, Awards Damages to Russian Scientologist

On September 28, 2021, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that Vladimir Leonidovich Kuropyatnik, a Moscow Scientologist, was illegally detained by a Russian police officer who questioned him for over one hour on the basis of his membership in the Scientology religion—an act which violated his human rights.

30 Diverse Religious Traditions Join Government Leaders to Tackle Religious Freedom

The bipartisan, three-day summit, with over 1,000 registered to attend, was organized by U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom (2018-2021) Sam Brownback, and Katrina Lantos Swett, chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (2012-2015), president of the Lantos Foundation and daughter of the late U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress.

STAND Joins With the Faith Community on Religious Freedom Day to Celebrate the Right to Believe

October 27, 2020 marks the 22nd anniversary of the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRF Act), described by the U.S. State Department as “landmark legislation that—for the first time—made promoting and defending international religious freedom a specific focus of U.S. foreign policy.

Honoring International Human Rights Day

Sixty-nine years ago today, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights —what would become the most widely agreed upon text on the subject of human rights and the most translated document in the world—was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.