United for Human Rights and CAP LC submitted this joint written statement during the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (15 June – 10 July 2026) under Agenda Item 3, informing the Council of a serious and worsening pattern of transnational discrimination affecting members of Shincheonji, a Korean Christian new religious movement.
CAP LC submitted this written statement during the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (15 June – 10 July 2026) under Agenda Item 3, highlighting the case of Nicole Daedone and Rachel Cherwitz of OneTaste and warning against the dangerous expansion of trafficking law into a tool for policing belief and spiritual authority.
United for Human Rights and CAP LC submitted this joint written statement during the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (15 June – 10 July 2026) under Agenda Item 3, updating the Council on the deteriorating situation of Russian spiritual teacher Konstantin Rudnev, currently detained in Argentina, and exposing the risks of transnational repression.
CAP LC submitted this written statement during the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (15 June – 10 July 2026) under Agenda Item 3, drawing the Council’s attention to a global pattern of misuse of taxation as a tool to target, stigmatize, or weaken spiritual and religious minorities.
United for Human Rights and CAP LC submitted this joint written statement during the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (15 June – 10 July 2026) under Agenda Item 3, drawing the Council’s attention to a growing pattern of discrimination affecting ArtExtasia, a Budapest-based artistic collective whose members include students of MISA, the Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute.
CAP LC submitted this written statement during the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (15 June – 10 July 2026) under Agenda Item 3, updating the Council on the escalating situation facing members of the Christian Gospel Mission (CGM), also known as Providence, in the Republic of Korea and Taiwan (Province of) China.
CAP Liberté de Conscience, Global Human Rights Defence, and United Village co-hosted a side event at the Palais des Nations during HRC 62 on the China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway and its impact on snow leopard habitat and high-mountain ecosystems in Kyrgyzstan. Speakers including Gary Cartwright (EU Today) and Sascha Fass (former Danish MP) called for full publication of Environmental Impact Assessments, independent ecological review, and EU GSP+ leverage to ensure transparency, public participation, and protection of the right to a healthy environment.
CAP Liberté de Conscience and Global Human Rights Defence co-hosted a side event at the Geneva Press Club during HRC 62 on forced religious conversions and minority women in Pakistan. MEPs, human rights defenders, and minority representatives examined abduction patterns, child marriage, blasphemy laws, and EU GSP+ leverage. Speakers called for enforcement of existing laws, independent investigations, education reform, and international accountability to protect Hindu, Christian, and Sikh girls from coercion and exploitation.
