Events & Programmes
IARF Training Workshop on UN Human Rights Mechanisms
Published on 14/05/2012
26-27 May 2012 Geneva, Switzerland In response to specific requests during the last 19th Session of the Human Rights Council in March 2012, from grassroots NGO representatives and human rights defenders, IARF in collaboration with the David M. Kennedy Centre for International Studies is organizing an international training workshop on the UN Human Rights...
Advocacy & Public Affairs
London Conference on plight of Sabian Mandaeans of Iraq
Published on 14/05/2012
26th April 2012House of Lords, London IARF was contacted on 20 March 2012 by Dr Layla Alroomi, the spokesperson of the Mandaean Human Rights Group (MHRG), with a request to attend a conference regarding: The plight of the Sabian Mandaeans of Iraq as a Religious, Ethnic and Linguistic minority …getting more...
Advocacy & Public Affairs
Policing Belief: The Impact of Blasphemy Laws on Human Rights
Published on 13/05/2012
Case studies of seven countries—Algeria, Egypt, Greece, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and Poland—where such laws exist both on paper and in practice.
Ideas & Reflections
The politics of religious freedom
Published on 12/05/2012
…what is religious freedom, and why are we talking about it now? From The Immanent Frame blog (“interdisciplinary perspectives on secularism, religion, and the public sphere”), recent academic articles on the subject.
Events & Programmes
EME 2012 conference – forms
Published on 10/05/2012
EME region conference 2012 – Trifold flyer (PDF, 2 pages) EME region conference 2012 – Updated Programme Information (4 July) (PDF, 2 pages) EME region conference 2012 – Registration Form (PDF, 1 page)
Advocacy & Public Affairs
Arab world’s Charlie Chaplin sentenced for defaming Islam
Published on 26/04/2012
Egypt court upholds conviction of top Arab actor The 71-year-old celebrity, described as the Arab world’s Charlie Chaplin, has a long history of legal tangles with Islamists who regard the actor’s work as blasphemous.
Ideas & Reflections
Unitarianism & the web
Published on 22/04/2012
People have often asked me whether the Web design was influenced by Unitarian Universalist philosophy. I have to say that it wasn’t explicitly, as I developed the Web well before I came across Unitarian Universalism at all. But looking back on it, I suppose that there are some parallels between...
Ideas & Reflections
Islam & Buddhism
Published on 22/04/2012
The Common Ground project This is an important and pioneering book, which seeks to find common ground between the teachings of Islam and of Buddhism. It is my hope that on the basis of this common ground, followers of each tradition may come to appreciate the spiritual truths their...
