Law and Religion Headlines
Tuesday, 8 March 2016
International Women's Day: Putting an expiration date on gender inequality
(CNN)
On International Women’s Day, let’s not forget migrant women and girls
(William Lacy Swing, World Economic Forum)
Photo essay: A day in the life of women
(UN Women)
Getting more women into ministerial jobs is not that hard – here’s how to do it
(Claire Annesley, The Con)
New data shows women clergy earn 85 to 90 cents for a man’s dollar (analysis)
(Tobin Grant, Religion News Service)
Why the world needs a UN treaty to combat violence against women
(Ronagh McQuigg, The Conversation)
On International Women’s Day, 7 reasons we still need to fight for women’s human rights
(Corallina Lopez-Curzi, Rights Info)
Knesset celebrates International Women’s Day, calls for improvements
(Lahav Harkov, The Jerusalem Post)
Ten ways Israeli and Jewish women cracked the glass ceiling this past year
(Judy Maltz, Haaretz)
Namibia: 42% of women in top jobs
(Tuyeimo Haidula, The Namibian)
Statement by the President Obama on International Women's Day
(Barack Obama, The White House)
Japan observes International Women's Day with mimosa flowers and grim statistics
(Global Voices)
10 ways we've defended women’s rights in the past year
(Amnesty International)
Women are the ones fighting the tough environmental battles around the world
(Marlene Cimons, Climate Progress)
The courage of Cuba’s Ladies in White
(CSWPress, ForB in Full)
More Headlines on Women's Human Rights Issues
Missouri Democrats stall religious objections measure
(Summer Ballentine, ABC)
Talking to India on religious freedom, says U.S
(Varghese K George, The Hindu)
Ban Ki-moon says Europe's border restrictions not in line with international law 'or human decency'
(UN News Centre)
Migration evidence shows how badly the EU needs to rethink its strategy
(Vicki Squire and Nina Perkowski, The Conversation)
Gunmen kill 4 nuns and 12 others in Yemen
(Barbara G. Baker, World Watch Monitor)
Chino Valley Unified hires law firm to appeal no-prayer ruling
(Beau Yarbrough, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
Egypt: 'suicide' claim for third Christian conscript in nine months
(World Watch Monitor)
EVENT: 8 March, 2016, The Israeli Mosaic: Identity, Society and Religion, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel
(The Institute for National Security Studies)
Jury agrees: If you weren’t a polygamist in two towns, you couldn’t get basic services like police or water
(Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post)
Monday, 7 March 2016
FFRF halts public school coach from organizing prayer
(Freedom From Religion Foundation)
EU Refugee Crisis: Turkey as an Effective Partner? Appeasing Erdogan’s Turkey without regard for European values won’t create an effective border
(Aykan Erdemir, The Globalist)
Erdogan’s war on media enters a new phase
(Aykan Erdemir, Foundation for Defense of Democracies)
Refugee crisis: Turkey seeks $3.3bn extra at EU talks
(Al Jazeera)
Pakistan’s religious minorities demand new laws to guarantee civil rights
(Shafique Khokhar, AsiaNews.it)
Pakistani lawyers' group behind spike in blasphemy cases
(Reuters)
Sisters of Mother Teresa killed in Yemen, witnesses to the love of Christ
(Cardinal Oswald Gracias, AsiaNews.it)
Pope terms massacre of the Sisters of Mother Teresa, senseless and diabolical act
(Cardinal Pietro Parolin, AsiaNews.it)
ISIS threatens 'apostate Putin' in new propaganda video
(Damien Sharkov, Newsweek)
Islamic council praises Malcolm Turnbull after first prime ministerial visit in decades
(Shalailah Medhora and Michael Safi, The Guardian)
Egypt says Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood killed chief prosecutor
(Maram Mazen, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Aging, indebted Japan debates right to 'die with dignity'
(Linda Sieg, Reuters)
Gunmen kill 16 at nursing home in Yemen started by Mother Theresa
(Saeed Al-Batati and Kareem Fahim, The New York Times)
New proposal to divide Jerusalem unites people against it
(Isabel Kershner, The New York Times)
Indonesia leader calls on Muslim world to unite on Palestine
(Niniek Karmini, The Associated Press, The Big Story)
Pope: 'We can speak of an Arab invasion' of Europe
(Lewis Sanders IV, Deutsche Welle)
No ‘discriminatory’ tests for Sikh soldier, judge tells the Army
(Cathy Lynn Grossman, Religion News Service)
‘New IRA’ claims responsibility for Belfast bomb attack
(Josh Lowe, Newsweek)
U.S. strikes al Shabaab training camp in Somalia, more than 150 killed
(Phil Stewart, Reuters)
Nominations are open for the 2016 Global Business & Interfaith Peace Awards
(The Weekly Number)
Supreme Court reverses Alabama court that denied lesbian woman’s adoption
(Richard Wolf, Religion News Service)
Pope Francis calls murdered nuns in Yemen ‘today’s martyrs’
(David Gibson, Religion News Service)
Israeli-American journalist compares Jewish Iranians to pets
(Mint Press News)
Who's really taking Christian homes in Iraq?
(Omar Sattar, Al-Monitor: Iraq Pulse)
Omar al-Bashir attends Islamic summit in Jakarta
(Al Jazeera)
Calais: 'Jungle' destruction resumes
(Shafik Mandhai, Al Jazeera)
Euthanasia: let’s clarify what the law is before we debate changing it
(Paul Komesaroff, The Conversation)
Euthanasia: more options doesn’t always expand our freedoms, sometimes it limits them
(Neil Levy, The Conversation)
Refugee-run school in Indonesia a model for governments to emulate
(Sally Clark and Carly Copolov, The Conversation)
How should Indonesia deal with emerging religious cults?
(Ismatu Ropi, The Conversation)
Australia: Morrison will fight same-sex marriage
(Michelle Grattan, The Conversation)
Top Pakistani religious body rules women's protection law 'un-Islamic'
(Mehreen Zahra-Malik, Reuters)
Ukrainian parliament may intervene in church seizures
(Russia Religion News)
Ukrainian religious leaders issue frantic call to save Ukrainian democracy
(Russia Religion News)
Head of Muslim community believes searches are intimidation of Crimean Tatars
(RISU: Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Pope expresses gratitude to Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
(RISU: Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Let us make the “year of mercy” a reality for the people of Ukraine, Head of the UGCC commented on meeting with Pope Francis
(RISU: Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishops met the Pope Francis
(RISU: Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Foreign minister of Ukraine: Religious and cultural identity of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar peoples destroyed in Crimea
(RISU: Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Why are Jehovah's Witnesses persecuted in Russia?
(Russia Religion News)
Nigeria’s membership of Islamic coalition not religious – Foreign Affairs Minister
(Levinus Nwabughiogu, Vanguard)
The Ukrainian religious leaders prepared proposals to the draft law ‘on countering discrimination’
(RISU: Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Pakistan and blasphemy: Worryingly, a liberal’s killer is honoured in Pakistan
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
A bill on transfer of religious communities to another jurisdiction presented in Parliament
(RISU: Religious Information Service of Ukraine)
Orthodox Christianity: Eastern Christian leaders face ultra-conservative grumbles as they prepare for a summit
(ERASMUS, The Economist [Erasmus: Religion and public policy])
Strange bedfellows: Turkey cracks down on Zaman, an opposition newspaper
(The Economist)
Look at the Hindu Maha Shivaratri Festival
(Gary Nguyen, World Religion News)
DCOP Kofi Boakye, Ampah-Bennin are my spiritual sons – Obinim
(Ghana Web)
Congo-born priest in Germany steps down after death threats
(Associated press, Daily Mail)
Supreme Court reverses Alabama court that denied lesbian woman’s adoption
(Richard Wolf, USA Today)
Stop forcing our girls into marriage, religion – Christians in Kano warn Muslims
(Ameh Comrade Godwin, Daily Post)
Bangladesh cannot have a State religion and be secular at the same time
(Hindustan Times)
After 28 years, Bangladesh revives case to drop Islam as state religion
(Searjul Quadir, Reuters)
‘No religion sanctions violence against women’: Interfaith leaders
(Nyein Nyein, Irrawaddy)
Jewish primary school hosts Imam in groundbreaking interfaith project
(Jewish News)
Adolescents promote embracing diversity during World Interfaith Harmony Week
(Carl Buhariwala, Indian Link)
Harakat al-Hawiya al-Arabiya al-Druziya: Defending Druze Identity in Suwayda’
(Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, Syria Comment (Joshua Landis))
Decision in case 1409/2014/MHZ on the European Commission's failure to carry out a prior human rights impact assessment of the EU-Vietnam free trade agreement
(European Ombudsman)
Fighting female genital mutilation among India's Bohra
(Sophie Cousins, Al Jazeera)
Will America's Olympic flag bearer be wearing a hijab?
(Robin Wright, The New Yorker)
Rohith Vemula-Kanhaiya Kumar link irks BJP as it brushes caste under the flag
(Vandita Mishra, The Indian Express)
Findings & Footnotes: March 2016
(Religion Watch, Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion)
Charity Commission guidance on EU referendum
(David Pocklington, Law & Religion UK)
*Risen* the Movie: a scholarly review and comparison
(Greg Carey, OUPblog Religion)
Chief rabbis to draw up alternative deal for pluralistic prayer area at Western Wall
(Jeremy Sharon, Jerusalem Post)
In Israel, Western Wall compromise may be unraveling
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
When voting and religious freedom collide
(The Campaign Legal Center)
Religious accommodations for Saturday presidential caucuses surveyed
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Court enjoins Army from requiring special testing of Sikh officer
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Alabama Supreme Court dismisses petitions opposing gay marriage
(Kent Faulk, AL.com)
Alabama Supreme Court narrowly avoids confrontation with SCOTUS on same-sex marriage
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
Cannabis church founder sues, says he was defamed
(Mark Alesia, WKYC News)
WND author testifies on behalf of school-prayer bill
(Paul Bremmer, WND)
Church of Cannabis leader sues former police chief for defamation
(Howard Friedman, Religion Clause)
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