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
HRC 57 Oral Statement Persecution of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan
With Human Rights Without Frontiers we are deeply concerned about the situation of the Ahmadis in Pakistan.
This year, the Ahmadiyya Community is enduring an alarming rise in violence and systemic persecution.
We notice a disturbing trend of targeted murders, desecration of mosques and graves.
This year, up to July alone, four Ahmadi Muslims were brutally murdered in religiously motivated attacks.
2024 WARSAW HUMAN DIMENSION CONFERENCE – Independence of the judiciary – Right to a fair trial
2024 WARSAW HUMAN DIMENSION CONFERENCE Warsaw, 30 September to 11 October 2024 Plenary Session 6: Rule of Law II, including: - Independence of the judiciary - Democratic law-making - Right to a fair trial Coordination des Association et des Particuliers pour la...
2024 WARSAW HUMAN DIMENSION CONFERENCE France Institutional torture
Institutional torture can take many forms, and one particularly insidious manifestation is when control and ideology take precedence over human dignity[i]. The case of the French police’s treatment of Romanian yoga practitioners is a stark example of this.
Persecution of Ahmadis in Pakistan: A Grave Violation of Human Rights
The International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) has expressed concern, about the increasing violence and intimidation against the Ahmadiyya community, in Pakistan. In a statement released by the IHRC mentioned that extremist groups armed with weapons are specifically targeting Ahmadis for what they have termed as “Operation Neat and Clean Pakistan.”
57th Session Human Rights Council Hears Alarming Report on Persecution of Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light in Jordan
During the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting there was a discussion, about the challenges Ahmadi Religion of Peace members are enduring in Jordan due to persecution issues discussed in a report presented there recently by Christine Mirre, director CAP Freedom of Conscience who emphasized the difficult situation of six Ahmadis currently undergoing trial over accusations of “heresy,” which poses a serious threat, to their basic human rights.
HRC 57 Oral Statement Jordan: Six members of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light to be tried as heretics
We are deeply concerned about the arrest in Jordan in late July of six members of the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light, a new religious movement founded 25 years ago.
They were just distributing in public in Amman flyers which simply described traditions related to the appearance of Imam Mahdi.
They were detained in unhuman conditions, mice and rats infesting their cells. They were released on bail after about three weeks of detention. But they were forced to pledge a payment of 70,000 US Dollars, should they ever publicly express or propagate again their religion.
CAP Freedom of Conscience involvement in Europe
FORB Roundtable meeting 10 December
Dear participants to the ForB Roundtable Brussels-EU, Our next meeting will occur from 4pm to 6pm on December 10, in the European Parliament, room A1H-1.To register, please write to us at contact@forbroundtable.orgThe meeting will be chaired by Kishan Manocha, Senior...
Human Rights : Where are we at ? Past and Future
9-10 December Room XXIV Palais des Nations UN GENEVA
International Conference Ahmadiyya in scholarly perspective
October 24.25. 2019 Faculty for Comparative Study of Religions and Humanism (FVG) & European Observatory of Religion and Secularism. Speakers : Prof. dr. Brahim Layouss : Welcome Prof. dr. Chris Vonck : Introduction ‘A search for a Quran in the 50's’. Heiko...
Ahmadiyya in Scholarly perspective
October 24.25. 2019 Faculty for Comparative Study of Religions and Humanism (FVG) & European Observatory of Religion and Secularism. Speakers : Prof. dr. Brahim Layouss : Welcome Prof. dr. Chris Vonck : Introduction ‘A search for a Quran...
Presentation of the Final Acts of the convention “Law and Freedom of Belief in Europe, an arduous journey” and launch of the project “Right to Truth”
Monday, February 4, 2019, in the beautiful setting of the “Hall of Feasts” of the eighteenth-century “Palazzo Bastogi” of Florence, seat of the Regional Council of Tuscany, was held the event of presentation of the prestigious volume of the Final Acts of the FOB (European Federation for Freedom of Belief) convention “Law and Freedom of Belief, an arduous journey”.
Side-event OSCE HDIM 2018 : How Universal is “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Globalization underline that the UDHR is often applied relative to regional culture, rather than securing universal principles. Especially when it comes to Freedom of Thought, Religion or Belief we find how cultural bias influence policy and law-making. What one considers a religious practice – such as devotional work in monastery – others consider criminality – in this case human trafficking.













