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

CAP LC LATEST NEWS

Georgia : Detained Photo-Reporters Do Not Plead Guilty

Jul 13, 2011

Early in the morning of July 7, from 3:00 am to 5:00 am famous Georgian photo-reporters were detained simultaneously in their houses: photo-reporter of the Associated Press Shah Aivazov, photo-reporter of the European Press-Photo Agency (EPA) in Georgia Zurab...

BELGIUM : Discriminatory law

Jul 13, 2011

Discriminatory law to be reviewed and debated by the Senate IRPP (05.07.2011) - Proposed legislation in Belgium which violates fundamental religious rights has been "evoked" by the Belgian Senate. The discriminatory draft law will now be reviewed and debated in the...

EUROPEAN COURT/ ARMENIA

Jul 13, 2011

The European Court recognizes that conscientious objection to military service is part of freedom of religion or belief Registry of the European Court (07.07.2011) - In today's Grand Chamber judgment in the case Bayatyan v. Armenia (application no. 23459/03),...

Members of the Opus Dei to be taken to court in Paris

Jul 13, 2011

Accusations of sectarian drifts and abuse of the state of weakness could now be used against Catholic institutions A young woman, Catherine T., is taking the Opus Dei to court on the grounds of labor exploitation. The first court hearing will take place in Paris on...

Hungarian Parliament resurrects Soviet past

Jul 13, 2011

Hungarian Parliament resurrects Soviet past with midnight adoption of Europe's most restrictive religion law IRPP (12.07.2011) While Communism officially ended in Hungary over 20 years ago, it appears the dictatorial mindset has not yet fully abated. Last night after...

The head of Miviludes does not like court decisions

Jul 2, 2011

The head of Miviludes does not like court decisions in favor of Jehovah's Witnesses HRWF (01.07.2011) - On 15 June, Robert Menard (founder and secretary general of Reporters Without Borders until 2008) interviewed on ITele Georges Fenech, head of MIVILUDES (the French...