What is “Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience” (CAP Freedom of Conscience)?
CAP Freedom of Conscience is a secular European NGO with United Nations Consultative Status, created in 1995 and dedicated to protect the Right of Freedom of Religion and Belief.
CAP Freedom of Conscience combats all forms of discrimination based on religion or belief by alerting European and International bodies.
CAP Freedom of Conscience collects testimonies of discrimination and human rights violations affecting religious or belief communities in order to disseminate them to international bodies, and in order to raise awareness and inform them as well as to generate debate on the protection of Freedom of Religion and Belief.
CAP Freedom of Conscience also advocates for any religious or spiritual group facing discrimination to have their right to Freedom of Religion and Belief recognized.
CAP Freedom of Conscience is a member of the European Federation for Freedom of Belief (FOB), European Network Of Religion and Belief (ENORB) and participate to the Civil Society Platform of Fundamental Rights created by the EU Fundamental Rights Agency DAFOH Partners in Combating and Preventing Forced Organ Harvesting
Sects and children : Miviludes report 2009
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...
“Sects” and children: the official figures
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...
Religious Discrimination in France: report 2011
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...
Appeal to the Constitutional Court likely against Belgian new “Anti-Sect” Law
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 or mental handicap...
Italy enters into concordates with Mormons, Apostolic Pentecostals, and an Orthodox Church
CESNUR (21.07.2012) - The Italian Senate approved on July 18, 2012 "intese" with the Mormon Church, the Italian Apostolic Church - a Pentecostal body tracing its origins in the Welsh revival - and the Orthodox Church loyal to the Ecumenical Patriarchate- The "intese"...
MIVILUDES and Jehovah’s Witnesses
MIVILUDES issued a press release which said: “The Inter-ministerial Mission for Monitoring and Combating Cultic Deviances takes note of the court decision taken by the European Court of Human Rights on 5 July 2012 but makes clear it was a decision about a purely fiscal dispute. It will go on exercising vigilance regarding the Jehovah’s Witnesses because of denouncements of “sectarian deviations” that it regularly receives from former members or from relatives of members of this religious community.”
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