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 60 oral statement : Urgent Call for Justice: UAE’s Persistent Human Rights Violations Exposed
On Friday, 19 September 2025, during the 60th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council, CAP Liberté de Conscience delivered an oral statement on behalf of human rights defenders who are arbitrarily detained in the UAE.
The statement echoed concerns first raised during the September 2024 side event, “Arbitrary Detention in the UAE: Addressing the Crisis of Civil Society Suppression”, hosted by CAP Liberté de Conscience, where the panel highlighted the systematic use of arbitrary detention to silence civil society actors and restrict fundamental freedoms.
CAP Liberté de Conscience Submits Written Statement on Human Rights Violations in Sudan at the 59th UN Human Rights Council Session
At the 59th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, CAP Liberté de Conscience submitted a written statement detailing ongoing human rights violations in Sudan, emphasizing the urgent need for international attention and action. The statement highlights the severe impact of the conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and other actors on civilians, including thousands killed or injured and nearly 12 million displaced persons, making it the world’s largest displacement crisis.
CAP Liberté de Conscience Responds to the Call on Children’s Right to Access to Justice and to an Effective Remedy
CAP Liberté de Conscience (CAP LC) has submitted a detailed report in response to the public consultation launched by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child regarding the draft of General Comment No. 27 on children’s right to access to justice and to an effective remedy. The call for submissions, available at the OHCHR website, seeks perspectives on improving mechanisms to ensure that children can access justice effectively and receive appropriate remedies for violations of their rights. The contributors addresses systemic challenges in France and proposes concrete recommendations to safeguard children’s rights in judicial and social protection settings.
HRC 59 : The Ongoing Genocide in Sudan and The Intervention of International Actors
On Wednesday 18 June 2025, a side event on “The Ongoing Genocide in Sudan and The Intervention of International Actors” was hosted by the Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience (CAP Freedom of Conscience), and co-hosted by Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD), coinciding with the 59th session of the Human Rights Council.
HRC 59 Sudan Item 3: ID with the SR on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
I speak today on behalf of victims of violence committed by the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan and their foreign backers.
Since the outbreak of the conflict, thousands of civilians have been killed or injured with almost 12 million people who have fled their homes. The RSF has launched repeated attacks on displacement camps, forcing civilians to flee again.
HRC 59 Side-event Human Rights in Sudan
Join us for this important side event, which will bring together legal and human rights experts,
victims, speakers with knowledge of the situation in Sudan to discuss the ongoing crisis and explore
potential ways to end the violations and hold those responsible to account.
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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.
Side-event OSCE HDIM 2018 : Freedom of Belief, No Discrimination and Telorance in the OSCE area
THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS INVALIDATES APPLICATION OF THE RUSSIAN LAW ON EXTREMISM TO PEACEFUL RELIGIOUS GROUPS By Patricia Duval Human Rights Attorney In a landmark decision, Ibragim Ibragimov and others v. Russia of 28 August 2018, the European Court of...
Side-event OSCE HDIM 2018 : The Religious Freedom in Eastern OSCE countries :The Denial of Religious Plurality in Russia
For one thousand years, Russia has been an Orthodox country, a bulwark against the expansion of Catholicism and other religions. “Russian Orthodox lands” are considered canonical territories where competition by other Christian religions has never been acceptable in the eyes of Moscow Patriarchy.
FECRIS, an NGO financed by the French government
FECRIS, an NGO financed by the French government