Four everyday people lie dead, another fifteen injured, as a result of yet another senseless terror attack that took place on November 2, 2020, this time in the streets of Vienna. Other victims will soon be found and, throughout Europe, the body-count is on the rise
Ce qui était au départ une réaction spontanée, légitime et populaire, face à une série d’assassinats barbares et qui cimentait l’opinion publique autour de valeurs universelles : le droit à la vie et la liberté d’expression…, risque de devenir une source de divisions, de conflits et la négation d’autres valeurs, tout aussi universelles, que sont le respect de l’autre, le droit à la différence et la tolérance…
France has a serious problem with radical Islam, but the draft law against “separatism” announced by President Macron may create more problems than it claims to solve. This is the conclusion of a “White Paper” co-authored or endorsed by well-know scholars of new religious movements Massimo Introvigne, Italian sociologist and managing director of CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions) and Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, from the University of Bordeaux, French lecturer in law Frédéric-Jérôme Pansier, and human rights activists Willy Fautré, of Brussels-based Human Rights Without Frontiers, and Alessandro Amicarelli, human rights attorney in London and chairperson of the European Federation for Freedom of Belief (FOB).
Coordination des associations et des particuliers pour la liberté de conscience noted
that a religious minority was undergoing trial in unacceptable conditions. The evidence had
been gathered by persons who were opposed to that religious minority. It was concerned that
Czechia had refused to listen to requests for that minority to be treated fairly, as any other
religious group in the country
A series of organizations denounce that the agreement of October 9, 2020, between the regional government surrounding the KDP and the Iraqi central government is another basis for the continuation of the genocide of August 3, 2014
We write as an informal group of organizations and individuals who are scholars, religious leaders and human rights advocates. We are from many faiths or acting in a secular capacity, representing a high degree of diversity. While there is very little we agree on theologically, or politically, we all agree on the importance of religious freedom for all faiths and none.
Nous vous écrivons en tant que groupe informel d’organisations et d’individus qui sont des universitaires, des leaders religieux et des défenseurs des droits de l’homme. Nous sommes de confessions diverses ou agissons à titre séculier, et représentons un degré élevé de diversité. Bien que nous soyons très peu en accord théologiquement ou politiquement, nous sommes tous d’accord sur l’importance de la liberté de religion pour toutes les religions et ceux qui n’en ont pas.
Eleven NGOs and academic research centers specialized in human rights and religious liberty, two of them with special consultative status at the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) wrote on October 28, 2020 to Disney CEO Bob Chapek, protesting an episode on A&E’s History Channel, part of its program “America’s Book of Secrets,” entitled “Cults, Hate Groups, and Secret Societies.” Disney is the co-owner of the A&E Networks, which in turn owns the History Channel.
