USCIRF and the U.S. Department of State disagree on the state of religious liberty in Turkmenistan. They may both be right.
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Documenting the Horror. 4. Time for Revising the “Convention on Genocide”?
A re-calibration of its language, in the full spirit of Raphael Lemkin, can meet recent developments in the heinous practice of genocides.
Documenting the Horror. 3. Cultural Genocides
The planned, organized, and systematic suppression of distinctive cultures aims at annihilating human groups for what makes them what they are. One perpetrator is the People’s Republic of China.
Moscow Terrorist Attack: Russian Anti-Cult Leader Blames “Ukrainian Cannibals,” “Cults,” and the U.S.
Archpriest Novopashin claims his theories that Ukrainians are “cannibals” and the U.S. trains “cultists” to attack Russia, ridiculed by “Bitter Winter,” have now been proven true.
Documenting the Horror. 2. Of Genocides and Culture
The UN “Convention on Genocide” excludes cultural destruction as a marker for genocide, to avoid a vague use of the term “culture.” But culture is not a fuzzy concept. It identifies peoples.
Documenting the Horror. 1. A Valuable Report on the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide
Testimonies collected on the ground by the European Bangladesh Forum confirm scholarly studies, calling on the international community, and by extension the UN, to recognize an overlooked truth.
Opinion: Italy, the Great Ramadan Scare, and the Need for a “Mature Secularity”
A public school’s decision to give its students (many of whom are Muslims) a day off for Eid al Fitr has generated unnecessary controversies.
Shri Ram Chandra Mission: The MIVILUDES Loses a Court Case
The respected Indian raja yoga organization won the right to receive copies of the reports used to accuse it of “cultic deviances.”
Artemisia Gentileschi versus Japan’s Ministry of Education
The Genoa exhibition of the great Italian Baroque painter is an opportunity to reflect on how protecting children from “sexy” Biblical images is not an intelligent idea.
Anti-Trafficking Campaigns in Argentina: The Strange Story of Director Gustavo Vera
The new Security Minister dismissed an officer strictly connected with an expansive definition of victims and anti-cult campaigns. Why?