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HUMAN RIGHTS
UN Lawyer Arielle Silverstein’s Support for Backpage Sex Trafficking Apologist Raises Integrity Questions
As the UN champions global efforts against modern-day slavery, scrutiny is mounting over whether its attorney’s financial support of her husband—who long defended the world’s largest child sex trafficking marketplace—undermines the institution’s human rights mandate.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Churches of Scientology Build Bridges for Interfaith Harmony Week—and the 51 Other Weeks of the Year
Inspired by L. Ron Hubbard’s writings on respect for religious belief, Churches of Scientology help create forums where diverse traditions meet, collaborate and uplift their communities.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Senior UN Official Arielle Silverstein Is a Secret Bigot and Public Relations Catastrophe on Human Rights Day
On December 10, the UN will celebrate dignity and non-discrimination. So why is Arielle Silverstein—an ethics insider who mocks believers, cheers on cyber-harassment and openly urges the targeting of minority faiths—still wearing a UN badge?
HUMAN RIGHTS
UN Experts Warn Japan’s School Pamphlets Threaten Religious Minorities
Government-issued “child abuse” pamphlets conflate faith with harm, targeting minority religions and worsening an already perilous environment for religious freedom in Japan.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Los Angeles Marks 44th International Day of Peace with Interfaith Solidarity March
Clergy, scholars and activists from across traditions rallied Angelenos against war and hate in a march from St. Basil Catholic Church to the Islamic Center of Southern California—and all in the name of peace.
HUMAN RIGHTS
CCHR Brings Global Case Against Coercive Psychiatry to UN Rights Committee in Geneva
From electroshock of five-year-olds to deaths in US for-profit hospitals, CCHR told the UN that psychiatry’s coercive practices amount to torture and must be banned worldwide.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Young Voices for Human Rights Gather at the United Nations to Redefine Our Future
In a world where conflict dominates headlines and human rights fall victim to spin, censorship and competing agendas, a global summit at the UN gave young delegates the mic—and a mission.
MENTAL HEALTH
The Shock Treatment That Won’t Die—Psychiatrists Want to Electrocute Your Kids
Psychiatrists push for electroshock on children—even as global bodies condemn it, courts rebuke it and victims recount the brain damage it leaves behind.
MENTAL HEALTH
The Death of Alice Figueiredo—How a Conviction Exposed the Psychiatric System Built to Forget Her
As a jury convicts the guilty over a young woman’s preventable death, the deeper scandal is now impossible to deny: Psychiatric “care” in Britain isn’t failing—it’s functioning exactly as designed.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Italy’s Constitutional Court Ends Unlawful Forced Psychiatric Detention
In a major human rights victory, Italy bans involuntary psychiatric detention without due process. The ruling challenges coercive mental health practices worldwide.