Region: Asia

A month after a Pashtun Sunni teen was lynched by a mob in Hazara Town, Shia Hazara women express their fears from outside the community…

14SHARES14 A legislative bill, passed on the pretext of protecting Islam, stoked controversy in almost all quarters of the country. The fundamental flaw lies in…

10SHARES10 The domestic workers from the Christian community found themselves trapped in the myriad challenges arising out of joblessness and poverty amplified by the Corona…

She was on her way to Church. Saneha Kinza Iqbal, a 16-year-old girl, was abducted last month in Pakistan by a man helped by two…

For the Hazara community, not organising the Ashura procession will pave the way for further marginalisation Shiite Muslims hold religious flags as they march in Quetta.…

The majority of sanitation workers in Pakistan are from religious minorities, primarily Christian and Hindu. Sanitation work is low-paid and low-status, and street and sewer…

https://youtu.be/SSUOA41WXPQ In the early stages of Pakistan’s coronavirus outbreak, Shia Hazaras were blamed for bringing the virus from Iran. Many were racially profiled and stigmatized as carriers…

In many countries around the world, religious minorities face discrimination, marginalisation and violence. On the anniversary of Pakistan’s Independence, Siobhain McDonagh MP, Chair of the…

Following the Twitter boycott in response to anti-Semitic tweets by British rapper Wiley, the IDS-led  Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) have warned…

Hazaras are both an ethnic and religious minority in majority Sunni Pakistan. In Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, there are about half a million Hazara…

CREID online event, opened by the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, Rehman Chishti, and bringing together over 100 academics, faith…

Prime Minister's Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, Rehman Chishti, opened this event which discussed what needs to be done to address religious…