Women’s rights and freedom of religion or belief

by Marie Juul Petersen Blog BORRAR, By invitation, By invitation BORRAR, Religion, Thematic human rights issues

In China, women from the Muslim Uighur minority are allegedly subject to rape and forced sterilisation in the so-called ‘re-education camps’ where hundreds of thousands of people are detained solely because of their religious affiliation. In Egypt, religiously justified family laws on e.g. marriage, divorce and custody of children discriminate not only against women, but also religious minorities, leaving religious …