Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers
pour la Liberté de Conscience
(CAP Freedom of Conscience)
NGO with ECOSOC consultative status at the United Nations
Registration on EU Transparency Register 628479527756-78
Civil society platform of Fundamental Rights created by the EU FRA
French non-benefit association register : W751082307
Member : European Federation for Freedom Of Belief – FOB
Member : Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations – ConGo
Advisory Board : International Council for Diplomacy and Dialogue
Advisory committee : New Generation Uniting Nations
2024 Friends of Falun Gong Human Rights Award
DAFOH Partners in Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting
Contact : contact@coordiap.com
phone : +336 70 66 04 42
CAP Liberté de Conscience – 117, rue de Charenton – 75012 – France
What is “Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience” (CAP Freedom of Conscience)?
CAP Freedom of Conscience is a secular European NGO with United Nations Consultative Status, created in 1995 and dedicated to protect the Right of Freedom of Religion and Belief.
CAP Freedom of Conscience combats all forms of discrimination based on religion or belief by alerting European and International bodies.
CAP Freedom of Conscience collects testimonies of discrimination and human rights violations affecting religious or belief communities in order to disseminate them to international bodies, and in order to raise awareness and inform them as well as to generate debate on the protection of Freedom of Religion and Belief.
CAP Freedom of Conscience also advocates for any religious or spiritual group facing discrimination to have their right to Freedom of Religion and Belief recognized.
CAP Freedom of Conscience is a member of the European Federation for Freedom of Belief (FOB), European Network Of Religion and Belief (ENORB) and participate to the Civil Society Platform of Fundamental Rights created by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency.
CAP LC General Assembly report 2021
CAP FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE SUPPORT :
FoRB Roundtable Brussels-EU
https://www.forbroundtable.org/
The FoRB Roundtable Brussels-EU is an informal group of individuals from civil society who gather regularly to discuss FoRB issues on a non-attribution basis. It is simply a safe space where participants gather, speak freely in sharing ideas and information, and propose joint advocacy actions to address specific FoRB issues and problems globally.
Latvia’s expulsion of historian Valery Engel: CAP LC takes the case to the OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference
CAP Liberté de Conscience calls on the OSCE to examine the use of national security instruments to suppress academic freedom and independent scholarly opinion.
General Comment No. 27 on children’s access to justice adopted: the concerns we documented echo in the outcome of the consultation
In June 2025, we contributed to the public consultation on draft General Comment No. 27 of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. Our submission was prepared by Sarah Thierrée, Johnny Dousse and Marie Sablon, and signed by Sarah Thierrée. It focused on systemic failures observed in France that prevent children, in particular victims of intrafamily violence, from obtaining an effective remedy.
International Day of the Girl 2026: End Child Marriage and Invest in Girls’ Rights
Every year on 11 October, the world marks the International Day of the Girl Child. In 2026, the observance carries a theme chosen with unusual clarity: end child marriage and invest in girls’ rights. For CAP Liberté de Conscience, the day is not only a celebration. It is a reminder of the girls whose rights are violated in the name of tradition, extremism or institutional failure, from Pakistan to France.
MIVILUDES: CAP LC’s follow up report to the OSCE published at the Warsaw Human Dimension Conference
From 5 to 15 October 2026, delegations of the participating States, civil society representatives and independent experts gather in Warsaw for the annual Human Dimension Conference organized by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the principal human rights event of the OSCE calendar. CAP LC contributed to the conference with a report on France and the MIVILUDES, published on the OSCE website under reference CIO.WHDC.CS/0086/26/EN. The report documents the judicial sanctions pronounced against the French interministerial mission and its partner associations, and examines the structural role of the media in the stigmatization of religious minorities.
OSCE 2026 : Side-Event Moving the debate from religion to rights
I would like to begin with three numbers. Six hundred and thirty nine. Forty seven. Three.
In the school year that followed the French law of 15 March 2004 on religious symbols in schools, the Ministry of Education recorded 639 pupils who had come to class wearing a visible religious sign. Within a year, 47 young girls had been formally excluded from public education. And three Sikh boys had been expelled for refusing to remove their turbans.
Every Day Must Be a 10 October: World Day Against the Death Penalty 2026
On 10 October, the World Day Against the Death Penalty, United Nations human rights experts renewed their call for the complete abolition of capital punishment. Their message this year is simple: look beyond labels, crimes and sentences, and recognize the humanity of those affected. The death penalty is not an abstract concept. It is imposed on people with families, life stories, aspirations and inherent dignity.