This video portrays football superstar Liverpool FC striker Mohamed Salah as a positive role model for kids in Egypt. As an openly Muslim athlete he is helping to change the negative perception of Islam in the UK and around the globe. This clip also ...
This video is covering FC Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah influence extending beyond the football pitch. In an era of rising Islamophobia and hate crime in the UK, Salah is also challenging prejudice and changing attitudes, with his Muslim identity ...
Those who in early modern Europe had a different faith than the majority of their fellow citizens often had a hard time. Other faiths were suppressed, their followers persecuted or expelled. In the Peace of Westphalia some regulations were laid down ...
The following text from a science blog is helpful for the understanding of maps depicting historical situations, especially about religion. ‘Maps can be helpful. Maps can also be misleading. Many maps of Reformation Europe show ...
Article 1 of the 200 Protocol no. 12 of the ECHR, reads as follows: ‘General prohibition of discrimination: 1. The enjoyment of any right set forth by law shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, ...
Article 14 of the1950 Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms reads as follows: ‘Prohibition of discrimination: The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be ...
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union constitutes a set of rights, freedoms and principles organised in seven subchapters and 54 articles. Article 10, titled ‘Freedom of thought, conscience and religion’, is part ...
The 2016 Insafe’ report provides a platform for raising questions of racism, hate speech and religious intolerance. A Romanian caller to the Insafe helpline, pointed to the following argument: ‘I don’t know if ...
The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibits discrimination and obliges the EU Member States to fight crimes motivated by racism, xenophobia, religious intolerance or by a person’s disability, sexual orientation or gender ...
Hate crime is the ‘violence and crime motivated by racism, xenophobia, religious intolerance or by a person’s disability, sexual orientation or gender identity’. These types of crimes are reported to be ‘a daily reality ...
During the religious and political conflict in the Low Countries, at the beginning of the seventeenth century the Southern Low Countries were controlled by the Spanish king. At that time, many Protestants lived in the region. The government forced ...
The Declaration on the Rights of Man and of the Citizen protected also the rights of believers who were not members of the Catholic Church. The declaration thus broke the monopoly of the Catholic Church in France. For more than a century, ...