Quick facts – Persecution of the Yazidi people
Thomson Reuters Foundation Nadia Murad, a Yazidi rights activist and survivor of sexual slavery by the so-called Islamic State, won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. Murad was 21 in 2014 when Islamic State militants attacked the village where she had grown up in northern Iraq. She was taken into captivity by the militants, […]
Nobel Peace Prize for two campaigners against rape as a weapon of war
World Watch Monitor The Congolese physician Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi, were awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday “for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict”, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. “Denis Mukwege is the helper who has devoted his life to defending […]
POSTCARDS: BUILDING HOPE – ART TRIUMPHS OVER WAR AT LONDON DESIGN BIENNALE
ADELE SULIMAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
ESSAY: WHEN CHRISTIANS SELL OUT CHRISTIANS FOR POLITICAL POWER
In an article first published on Religion News Service, SHANE CLAIBORNE and DON GOLDEN express their astonishment that evangelical leaders did not seem to have raised the plight of persecuted religious minorities at a special dinner with US President Donald Trump this week…