OSCE Human Dimension Freedom of religion or belief 1st October 2012 FRANCE : “Sects” and children: the official figures
OSCE Human Dimension Freedom of religion or belief 1st October 2012
FRANCE : “Sects” and children: the official figures
OSCE Human Dimension Freedom of religion or belief 26th September 2011 : MIVILUDES exporting the French model
But this « About-Picard » law, named after its authors, contravenes the Council of Europe’s Recommendation 1412 in which it considered that major legislation on sects was undesirable on the grounds that such legislation might well interfere with the freedom of conscience and religion guaranteed by Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights as well as harm traditional religions.
Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Freedom of Religion or Belief, 9-10 December 2010, Vienna
According to this guide, a child born in a family in which the parents are followers of a religious minority, is immersed in their beliefs, which for MIVILUDES can be analyzed as a symbolic confinement in the family. For MIVILUDES, the world of the grown-ups imposes itself to the child as a reference in terms of behaviour, values, ideas and beliefs. Under constant construction, the future identity of the child will thus be deeply marked according to MIVILUDES by the beliefs of his parents.
2010 OSCE Human Dimension Freedom of religion or belief 8th October 2010
2010 OSCE Human Dimension Freedom of religion or belief 8th October 2010 France: Religious Minorities stigmatized as “mutating viruses” and “pathology of belief” Created over ten years ago to fight against discrimination of religious or belief minorities in France,...
2010 OSCE High-Level Conference on Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Kazakhstan, Astana, 29-30 June 2010
CAP LC wishes to set the record straight regarding discrimination of minority belief groups in France. We also wish to address the response made in February 2010 by the French government to the request of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief for updated information following her 2005 measures taken to implement them” in the event similar representations were made by the French government to ODIHR.
2009 OSCE Human Dimension Freedom of religion or belief 29th September 2009
With a whiff of Committee of Public Salvation which used to organise State repression in the name of “public salvation” and “general safety” during the troubled times of the French Revolution, the Interministerial Mission of Watch and Fight against Sectarian Deviations, headed by its new President Georges Fenech, organises the repression of groups it considers as “deviating” in the name of public interest.
CAP Submission Regarding the Appointment of Mr. Georges Fenech as President of MIVILUDES
On 19 September 2008, Prime Minister Fillon appointed Mr. Georges Fenech, former Magistrate and Member of Parliament, as Chairman of MIVILUDES (the Inter-Ministerial Mission of Vigilance to Fight against Sectarian Drifts). MIVILUDES was formed on 28 November 2002 by the Prime Minister. MIVILUDES is an inter- ministerial government entity tasked to collect data on religious movements and inform the public about the “risks of sectarian deviances”. MIVILUDES is composed of a President, a Secretary General with a task force of twelve
Officials assigned from government ministries, an Executive Committee composed of 18 government officials from nine ministries, and an Advisory Council composed of eight members of Parliament, eight associations, and 14 experts.
