What was religious intolerance

Violence takes the form of arrest, prison, and execution. Barely trailing the North was Afghanistan, supposed U. Believers there are under extraordinary social pressure and sometimes are violently targeted.

Afghanistan leads a parade of Islamic states, which dominate the list. Next in line are Somalia, Sudan, and Pakistan. Eritrea, known as the African North Korea, comes in at number six. Libya, Iraq, and Yemen all have been devastated by conflict which loosed Islamist furies on vulnerable religious minorities.

India comes in at number The Hindu nationalist government largely ignores local intolerance and violence directed against Christians and Muslims. Two more Islamic states follow. Saudi Arabia is essentially a totalitarian state, without a single church, synagogue, or temple. Maldives is similar: all citizens must be Muslims. The divided nation of Nigeria comes in at number 14, highlighted by the depredations of the violent Islamist movement Boko Haram.

Three more Islamic nations follow. Syria became a refuge for many Christians forced from Iraq, but the Islamic State and other Muslim radicals have murdered and brutalized Christians and other religious minorities living in Syria.

Uzbekistan combines a Muslim culture and authoritarian state. In Egypt Christians face both social pressure and government discrimination. Converts from Islam are treated especially harshly. Hindu radicals are active in Nepal. Another three Muslim countries then follow on the list: Brunei, Qatar, and Kazakhstan.

Divided Ethiopia is number 29, suffering from government repression, Islamic radicalism, and Orthodox favoritism. This article was updated on 19 November to replace the main image with a more suitable photograph.

This article is more than 11 months old. Attitudes to faith said to drive negative perceptions more than ethnicity or nationality. The survey found more tolerance for those from different ethnic backgrounds than religious groups.

Europe's Muslims are European. Stop outsourcing their plight to foreign leaders Shada Islam. Read more. Practices of a religion or belief in which a child is brought up must not be injurious to his physical or mental health or to his full development, taking into account article 1, paragraph 3, of the present Declaration.

In accordance with article 1 of the present Declaration, and subject to the provisions of article 1, paragraph 3, the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief shall include, inter alia , the following freedoms:. The rights and freedoms set forth in the present Declaration shall be accorded in national legislation in such a manner that everyone shall be able to avail himself of such rights and freedoms in practice.

Nothing in the present Declaration shall be construed as restricting or derogating from any right defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenants on Human Rights. The core international human rights instruments. Universal human rights instruments. The International Bill of Human Rights. Turn on more accessible mode. Turn off more accessible mode. Article 2 1. Article 3 Discrimination between human beings on the grounds of religion or belief constitutes an affront to human dignity and a disavowal of the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and shall be condemned as a violation of the human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and enunciated in detail in the International Covenants on Human Rights, and as an obstacle to friendly and peaceful relations between nations.

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