CAP LC at the 63rd Session of the Human Rights Council

CAP LC at the 63rd Session of the Human Rights Council

CAP Freedom of Conscience participated in the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, held in Geneva from 7 September to 7 October 2026. This activity report presents the organisation’s oral and written statements on freedom of religion or belief, equality, arbitrary detention, procedural guarantees, refugee protection and civilian protection in Sudan. It also covers two side events addressing religious autonomy in Estonia and the protection of besieged civilians in Sudan, as well as CAP LC’s reporting on major session debates. These include artificial intelligence, Denmark’s Universal Periodic Review, arbitrary detention and the external networks sustaining Sudan’s war. The report brings together CAP LC’s advocacy, partnerships and analysis during the session.

HRC 63 Written Statement: Minorities and the Long Road to Justice After Authoritarianism

HRC 63 Written Statement: Minorities and the Long Road to Justice After Authoritarianism

Citoyens en action pour la démocratie et le développement and the Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience submitted this joint written statement during the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, held from 7 September to 9 October 2026, under Agenda Item 8. The statement examines how victims of state violence can continue to seek justice when truth emerges slowly but procedural deadlines prevent the consideration of new evidence.

HRC 63 Written Statement: Minorities and the Long Road to Justice After Authoritarianism

HRC 63 Written Statement: The Protection of Procedural Guarantees in the Case of Konstantin Rudnev in Argentina

Citoyens en action pour la démocratie et le développement and the Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience submitted this joint written statement during the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, held from 7 September to 9 October 2026, under Agenda Item 4. The statement reports recent developments in the case of Konstantin Rudnev and raises concerns about procedural safeguards and Argentina’s international human rights obligations.

HRC 63 Written Statement: Minorities and the Long Road to Justice After Authoritarianism

HRC 63 Written Statement: The Detention of Chairman Lee Man Hee in the Republic of Korea

The Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience submitted this written statement during the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, held from 7 September to 9 October 2026, under Agenda Item 4. The statement expresses concern about the detention of Chairman Lee Man Hee, the 95 year old leader of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, and its implications for elderly defendants, due process, and freedom of religion or belief.

HRC 63 Written Statement: Minorities and the Long Road to Justice After Authoritarianism

HRC 63 Written Statement: Situation of Refugees from The Church of Almighty God

The Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience submitted this written statement during the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, held from 7 September to 9 October 2026, under Agenda Item 3. The statement calls attention to the situation of refugees belonging to The Church of Almighty God and to the risks they face if returned to China.

HRC 63 Written Statement: Minorities and the Long Road to Justice After Authoritarianism

HRC 63 Written Statement: Concerns Regarding the Application of Forced Labor Law to Religious Communities in the United States of America

Citoyens en action pour la démocratie et le développement and the Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience submitted this joint written statement during the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, held from 7 September to 9 October 2026, under Agenda Item 3.

The United Nations Draws a Line on Artificial Intelligence

The United Nations Draws a Line on Artificial Intelligence

More than sixty armed conflicts involving at least one State are being fought around the world today, a level not seen since the end of the Second World War. Into this troubled landscape, artificial intelligence has arrived not as a distant prospect but as a working tool: it sorts, targets, persuades and, in an increasing number of documented cases, it kills. On 6 October 2026, at the close of its sixty third session, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted two resolutions addressing the human rights dimension of this transformation. Days later, in New York, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, told the Third Committee of the General Assembly that the world had reached, in his words, the final level of red alert.

HRC 63 : Quatre-vingt ans après, la promesse de 1946 reste lettre morte : CAP Liberté de Conscience interpelle la France au Conseil des droits de l’Homme

HRC 63 : Quatre-vingt ans après, la promesse de 1946 reste lettre morte : CAP Liberté de Conscience interpelle la France au Conseil des droits de l’Homme

Le jeudi 1er octobre 2026, lors du débat général de l’Item 9 de la 63e session du Conseil des droits de l’Homme des Nations unies, consacré au racisme, à la discrimination raciale, à la xénophobie et aux formes connexes d’intolérance, Christine Mirre, vice-présidente de CAP Liberté de Conscience, a prononcé une déclaration au nom de la Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience, portant sur la politique de la France à l’égard de ses départements d’outre-mer.

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