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  • EU Special Envoy for Religious Freedom Jan Figel: “Europe needs to stand up to help minorities in Iraq

    EU Special Envoy for Religious Freedom Jan Figel: “Europe needs to stand up to help minorities in Iraq

    “Iraq is in an incredibly difficult situation. Minorities especially, were since 2014 abandoned by the central government of Baghdad and also felt abandoned by the Kurdish authorities. They became the victims of a genocide by ISIS,” EU Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion and belief Jan Figel told The European Post. Jan

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  • Burma’s Yet Incomplete Democratic Transition

    The United Nations on Friday issued a report on the Burmese military’s abuse of Rohingya Muslim civilians in northern Rakhine State over the past four months. The campaign of murders, mass gang-rapes, brutal beatings and disappearances clearly rises to the level of crimes against humanity. The report draws on interviews with 204 Rohingyas who fled

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  • CIFoRB interviews Ján Figeľ

    CIFoRB interviews Ján Figeľ

    Angela Garvey Hammond interviews Ján Figeľ, the EU Special Envoy for the Freedom of Religion or Belief outside the European Union. More information on the CIFoRB project: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/ciforb

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  • EU Special Envoy

    EU Special Envoy

    Interview on the mission to promote Freedom of Religion and Belief

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  • “Embattled” – Conference speakers Jan Figel and Andreas Thonhauser

    “Embattled” – Conference speakers Jan Figel and Andreas Thonhauser

    Conference “Embattled: Christians Under Pressure in Europe and Beyond”; Session I with presentations by Andreas Thonhauser (ADF International) and Jan Figel (European Commission, Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom and religion and belief outside the EU) A conference with the goals of informing lawmakers, professionals, clergy, and media from Austria and neighboring countries about

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  • What US President-elect D. Trump can do for Syria and Aleppo

    (CNN) The US President-elect walks onto the world stage facing a question: Will this century of genocides end or continue? Donald Trump comes to power amid what has been called „the complete meltdown of humanity“ in Syria, with US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power demanding of UN member states Syria, Iran, and Russia:

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  • What US President-elect D. Trump can do for Syria and Aleppo

    What US President-elect D. Trump can do for Syria and Aleppo

    The US President-elect walks onto the world stage facing a question: Will this century of genocides end or continue? Donald Trump comes to power amid what has been called “the complete meltdown of humanity” in Syria, with US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power demanding of UN member states Syria, Iran, and Russia: “Are

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  • What US President-elect D. Trump can do for Syria and Aleppo

    (CNN) The US President-elect walks onto the world stage facing a question: Will this century of genocides end or continue? Donald Trump comes to power amid what has been called “the complete meltdown of humanity” in Syria, with US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power demanding of UN member states Syria, Iran, and Russia: “Are

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  • Address by Ján Figeľ at The Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy 2016 in the theme of “Promo

    “Freedom of Religion, Interfaith Dialogue and Development Policy” A Keynote Address by The Hon. Jan Figel (EU Special Envoy for Promotion of Freedom of Religion or Belief outside the EU) The Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy 2016 “Promoting Global Human Rights through Cultural Diplomacy” (Berlin, December 14th- 19th, 2016) The Center for Cultural Diplomacy Studies

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