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 […]
XIX Session of the Human Rights Council
29 February to 23 March 2012 IARF has two involvements in this 2012 session: 1 Written & Oral Statements Written Statements to the Human Rights Council (HRC) exist as a means for NGOs to directly lobby the HRC’s member states. The Statements are intended to highlight specific thematic issues or country […]
HRET-RFYN KLE Law College, Chikodi, Belgaum
Human Rights Education workshop@KLE Law College, Chikodi, Belgaum District, Karnataka State, India22-23, October 2013 Facilitators: Mr. K. Ramachandran & Mr. Gautham Bharathi K. Report (PDF 5 pages, illustrated) Photos
First Pakistan HRE trainings
Human Rights Education training@Sargodha, Pakistan 27 – 28 September 2013 Participants: Muslim, Christian and Baha’i youth Photos (both days) ; 28th Human Rights Education training@Sādiqābād, Punjab, Pakistan 9 – 10 November 2013 Participants: Muslim and Christian Photos – 9th ; 10th On both occasions, the message was “Respect the Human, and Religion”. IARF’s India-produced training docu-dramas were screened, […]