by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Nov 1, 2012 | news
States should ensure that school curriculums, when providing information on religious or belief-related issues, contribute to the elimination of negative stereotypes and prejudices against converts and persons or groups engaged in non-coercive missionary activities. This should also be a guiding consideration for assessing the quality of textbooks used in schools;
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Oct 17, 2012 | news
First, the NGO Branch should be apprised that FECRIS is in actuality not an NGO because it is almost entirely financed by the French State in order to forward France’s policies to “combat” minority belief groups in international forums. Under Article 70 of the UN...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Oct 10, 2012 | news
The launching, tomorrow in Paris, of a new observatory of cultural and religious pluralism testifies that there is a growing concern in Europe about defending religious freedom. Motivated from the beginning by solidarity with Eastern Christians, this mobilization...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Sep 24, 2012 | news
Human Rights Without Frontiers recommends to the French authorities to put an end to religious discrimination in prison and to allow detainees to have access to JW chaplains HRWF (17.09.2012) – For many years, the French authorities have denied the...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Aug 31, 2012 | news
In the Miviludes 2009 report, Georges Fenech, as President of the Miviludes, did a full review of the problems that could have occurred in EU countries regarding children and so called “sects”. Results of the review made clear that no real problem existed in Europe...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Aug 31, 2012 | news
Under the cover of fighting “sects” minority faiths are widely discredited in the media and often their right to answer is simply scoffed. The word “sect” has already proved discriminatory in History; it has no legal definition and is charged with a strong emotional...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Aug 29, 2012 | news
Introduction International human rights organizations have warned that the French government has retreated from its mandate toward respecting religious pluralism. In spite of the principles of non-discrimination and equal treatment, the French government has...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Aug 10, 2012 | news
HRWF (09.08.2012 ) – On November 26, 2011, the Belgian Parliament voted a Law adding articles to the Penal Code criminalizing “Abuse of Weakness”. Obviously, every citizen agrees that a person in a situation of weakness because of his age, physical...
