Human Rights Resource Centre newsletter end-2013
IARF-HRRC Newsletter Oct-Dec 2013 (PDF 48 pages, illustrated)
State-level Interfaith Fest, TamilNadu
HRET Baba Institute, Vishakhapatnam
Baba Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), P.M. Palem, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. 28th December 2013 Facilitators: Prof. N. Prakasa Rao & Prof. E. P. S. Bhagyalakshmi Report (PDF illustrated, 5 pages) Photos
RFYN Summit 2014 – program
Time Day One (24th Jan 2014) Day Two (25th Jan 2014) Day Three (26th Jan 2014) Day Four (27th Jan 2014) 07.00 am Arrival & Registration Prayer Meditation Yoga 08.00 am Breakfast 09.00am Inaugural Celebration Previous day Evaluation 10.00am Introductory Session Session Two :- Involvement of young adults in Youth education and learning Session Four:- […]
Kenya Chapter press conference
IARF’s new Chapter in Kenya held its first press briefing with reference to the Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi on 21 September 2013, by Somalia-based Al-Shabaab. The Chapter’s particular concern is a possible Islamophobic backlash against members of Kenya’s Somali community. It hopes to establish a media presence that advocates the principles for which […]
Member group leader detained
On Thursday 5th December 2013, Sheikh Maytham Al Salman, Head of the Religious Freedom Unit in the Bahrain Human Rights Observatory (BHRO), and chairman of the Bahrain Interfaith Centre, an Associate member group of the IARF, was summoned to Al Hoora police station by the investigation unit of the Ministry of Interior Affairs, Manama. For […]
UN Forum on Minority Issues – IARF Oral Submissions
Human Rights Council – Sixth session of the Forum on Minority Issues “Beyond freedom of religion or belief: Guaranteeing the rights of religious minorities” 26 and 27 November 2013@Room XX of the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland IARF’s six-person delegation included our two Zurich-based colleagues and two delegates from our partner organization based in Brussels (Human Rights Without […]
First Kenya Chapter upcountry events
South Nyanza Region interfaith program – Report (PDF 3 pages, illustrated) Human Rights Education event, Kitale [portfolio_slideshow] Chapter Secretary’s Introductory Address To our distinguished guest, leaders and the IARF members, Shalom! I would first want to acknowledge the presence on the stage of Hon. Governor, County Representative, area OCPD, Chief and other distinguished guests. I also […]
Launch of Human Rights Education Resource Centre (HRERC)
6th November 2013Launch of Human Rights Education Resource Centre (HRERC)@Sri.Venkateshwara College of Engineering & Technology Tiruvallur District, TamilNadu Following the launch of the HRRC at Hindupur in August this year, a second centre with the same objectives has been opened. Please see the report here (PDF 4 pages, illustrated)
13th Universal Periodic Review
In 2012, on the basis of our human rights education work in India, we submitted to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, our first contribution to this new mechanism of the UN (established 2006) for the monitoring of states’ human rights records. IARF Joint UPR Submission 2012 – India […]