Freedom
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Iffat Mirza Rashid, Alton The word ‘friend’ comes from the Old English frēond, meaning ‘loving one’, ‘friend’ or ‘relative’. This word ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European root prī-y-H (‘to love, to like’), which is also the root of the word ‘free’. Therefore, it can be said that the core meaning of ‘friend’ has always not only been tied to the concept of love and affection, but also has relations to the idea of ‘freedom’. The concept
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International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief Bareera Ghaffar, Nottingham The right to religion. The right to practice as one chooses, is a human right. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in articles 18,19 and 20 depicts how people across the world have a freedom of religion, expression
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By Tooba Khokhar, Cambridge, UK On the 14th of March 2017, the European Court of Justice ruled in favour of a corporation wishing to prohibit its employees from “the visible wearing of any political, philosophical or religious sign”. The plaintiff in this case, Belgian citizen Ms Samira Achbita was a “hijabi”, a woman observing the
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