HRC 39th session : PROTECTION FOR THE NON-MUSLIM RELIGIOUS MINORITIES OF AFGHANISTAN
PROTECTION FOR THE NON-MUSLIM RELIGIOUS MINORITIES OF AFGHANISTAN INTRODUCTION 1.1 We are a NGO that specializes in the freedom of religious minorities. This statement reports to the UN on the urgent need to protect the forgotten non-Muslim religious...Oral statement 39th HRC session: Protection for the Religious Minorities of Afghanistan
Oral statement 39th Human Rights Council session : Protection for the Religious Minorities of Afghanistan CAP Liberté de Conscience is making this statement jointly with UNITED SIKHS, a UN associated international advocacy NGO that defends religious freedom of...39th HRC session : UPR OUTCOMES ON GERMANY
On August 31, despite protests by the Red Cross, the German Evangelical Lutheran Church, and several NGOs, including mine, a member of The Church of Almighty God, Zhao Xueliang, was deported back to China from Germany. Her cell phone, money (she was left with 60 euros only), and even most of her personal belongings were confiscated and she was taken forcibly to the airport. She has now “disappeared” in China.
Side-event OSCE HDIM 2018 : How Universal is “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Globalization underline that the UDHR is often applied relative to regional culture, rather than securing universal principles. Especially when it comes to Freedom of Thought, Religion or Belief we find how cultural bias influence policy and law-making. What one considers a religious practice – such as devotional work in monastery – others consider criminality – in this case human trafficking.
RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION AND STATE NEUTRALITY: THE CASE OF HUNGARY
Alike other Eastern Europe countries, Hungary has adopted liberal legislation in the aftermath of the fall of Communism to consecrate freedom of religion and belief. However, subsequent political developments aimed at restoring Hungarian religious “heritage” and repressing nontraditional religious denominations. The 1990 liberal Law guaranteeing the right of freedom of conscience and religion for all and prohibiting discrimination has been replaced in 2011 by a new religion law that stripped approximately 200 religious communities of legal personality and established a two-tier system where the status of Churches is politically approved and non-recognized religious organizations are second-zone groups of parishioners deprived of the legal protection afforded to Churches.
Side-event OSCE HDIM 2018 : Freedom of Belief, No Discrimination and Telorance in the OSCE area
THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS INVALIDATES APPLICATION OF THE RUSSIAN LAW ON EXTREMISM TO PEACEFUL RELIGIOUS GROUPS By Patricia Duval Human Rights Attorney In a landmark decision, Ibragim Ibragimov and others v. Russia of 28 August 2018, the European Court of...
OSCE HIDM 2018 Working session 6 : The Denial of Religious Plurality in Russia
CAP Liberté de Conscience, a French NGO created in 2000 dedicated to the respect of the Right of Freedom of Religion and Belief. CAP LC is expert since now 20 years, in religious minorities’ discriminations in France and Europe. CAP Liberté de Conscience organizes events, conferences, meetings to unite minority religions to counter discrimination mainly in France but also in Europe and worldwide.
