by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Dec 10, 2020 | news, Signing letters, Signing letters 2020
HRWF (10.12.2020) – Thirteen human rights NGOs call upon the authorities of China, Iran and Russia to release religious prisoners under threat of being infected by COVID-19. These are the three countries that have the highest number of believers of all faiths behind bars, according to Human Rights Without Frontiers’ (HRWF) database of FoRB prisoners which documents thousands of individual cases.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Dec 8, 2020 | Signing letters, Signing letters 2020
Mr. Nguyễn Bắc Truyển and other prisoners on hunger strike over prison
conditions in An Điềm Prison, Quảng Nam Province
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Dec 8, 2020 | Signing letters, Signing letters 2020
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.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Nov 23, 2020 | Signing letters, Signing letters 2020
In effect, millions of Chinese children have had their inherent right to freedom of religion wrestled from their grips in contravention of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. China has shut out children from attending any church services or activities in Zhejiang, in Xinjiang the Chinese Communist Party separates Uighur children from their parents and stops Tibetan buddhist children from receiving religious education. The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief stressed that, “Every individual child is a rights holder in his or her own capacity as recognized in Article 14 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.”
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Oct 19, 2020 | news, Signing letters, Signing letters 2020
Re: Request to Impose Sanctions to Stop Turkey’s War Crimes in Northeast Syria and Beyond Under EO 13894
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Sep 28, 2020 | Signing letters, Signing letters 2020
the case of Huma Younus : Christian Pakistani girl who was kidnapped
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Sep 9, 2020 | Signing letters, Signing letters 2020
We write as an informal coalition of organizations and individual scholars, religious leaders, human rights advocates and practitioners to ask you to co-sponsor the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, (H.R. 6210 or S. 3471), to ensure that American product supply...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Sep 9, 2020 | Signing letters, Signing letters 2020
Dear Madam, We, the undersigned, are a group of individuals and organizations who collectively strive to promote religious freedom and the protection of human rights around the world. We are writing with concern about ongoing persecution in South Korea that...