As part of its contribution to the 20th Human Dimension Implementation Meeting of the OSCE in Warsaw, Poland, Core Issues Trust today (27th September 2016) released a trailer of its new production - "Voices of the Silenced: experts, evidences and ideology". The side event - a working breakfast, preceeded Working session 12 (Tolerance and non-discrimination) is a continuation from yesterday's Working Session 11, at which CIT also offered a side event on Pansexual Humanism. Working Session 12 continued to examine progress on tolerance and non-discrimination, including prevention and responses to hate crimes in the OSCE area, and combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination. It also also focused on intolerance on religious grounds.
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September 27th, 2016
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September 27th, 2016
Two widely recognized trends in American society might have something to do with each other.
Divorce rates climbed to the highest levels ever in the 1980s, when about half of all marriages ended in divorce.
And in the present day, Americans are rapidly becoming less religious. Since 1972, the share of Americans who say they do not adhere to any particular religion has increased from 5 percent of the population to 25 percent.
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September 27th, 2016
Warning that unsafe abortions kill nearly 50,000 women each year, United Nations human rights experts today called on States across the world to repeal restrictive abortion laws and policies, and all punitive measures and discriminatory barriers to access safe reproductive health services.
“Criminalization of abortion and failure to provide adequate access to services for termination of an unwanted pregnancy are forms of discrimination based on sex,” they said in a joint statement on the eve of the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion.
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September 27th, 2016
Half of adults in Scotland say they are not religious, according to new statistics.
The latest Scottish Household Survey reveals that 49.8% of those surveyed said they did not have a religion - up from 40% in 2009.
There was also a fall in the number of people aligning themselves with the Church of Scotland, from 34% in 2009 to a quarter of people last year.
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September 27th, 2016
It’s a boy! A five-month-old boy is the first baby to be born using a new technique that incorporates DNA from three people, New Scientist can reveal. “This is great news and a huge deal,” says Dusko Ilic at King’s College London, who wasn’t involved in the work. “It’s revolutionary.”
The controversial technique, which allows parents with rare genetic mutations to have healthy babies, has only been legally approved in the UK. But the birth of the child, whose Jordanian parents were treated by a US-based team in Mexico, should fast-forward progress around the world, say embryologists.
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September 26th, 2016
20 churches were destroyed in Syrian Aleppo, Deputy Chairman of the Commission for UNESCO of the Russian Federation and the Committee for Russian-Syrian cooperation Alexander Dzasokhov said.
"It is a magnificent city in Syria that was famous not only for its renowned architecture and cultural sites, but it was a place where Christian aspect of this long-suffering nation has always been present. It suffers great destructions now. According to the recent data, 20 churches were destroyed there," he said on air The Church and the World TV program on Rossiya-24 channel.
Dzasokhov believes the future of humanity depends on the outcome of the Syrian question.
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September 20th, 2016
In 2013 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, declared war on Wonga and other payday lenders crucifying borrowers with 5,000% interest loans. Three years later it looks as if his prayers may have been answered.
CFO Lending, which was fined £34m this week by the Financial Conduct Authority, is just the latest operator brought to its knees by regulators punishing bad lending behaviour. CFO, which traded under brand names Payday First, Money Resolve and Flexible First, will have to hand money back to nearly 100,000 victims of its unfair practices.
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September 20th, 2016
Conservative and liberal Christians have criticised a new bishops' group set up to discuss the issue of homosexuality.
Some conservatives are upset that such a group has been set up at all.
Liberal Anglicans are equally angry, complaining that the new Bishops' Reflection Group contains no members who have advocated a change in the Church's traditional teaching on marriage.
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September 20th, 2016
Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have agreed to block ads for services that determine the sex of unborn children in India, adhering to an order from the country's highest court. As the BBC reports, India's health ministry told the Supreme Court on Monday that the three web companies will block 22 keywords related to prenatal sex testing. The court was hearing a case that seeks to block online content that promotes prenatal sex-selection services, which were outlawed in 1994.
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September 20th, 2016
The family court service in England and Wales is facing a “clear and imminent crisis” because of a sustained increase in the number of child care cases, its most senior judge has said.
In an emergency statement issued through the judicial office, Sir James Munby, the president of the family division, said he could not simply ask lawyers or court staff to work harder. “The fact is that we are approaching a crisis for which we are ill-prepared and where there is no clear strategy to manage the crisis. What is to be done?” he asked.