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

2024 WARSAW HUMAN DIMENSION CONFERENCE Session 7 Freedom of religion or belief

Oct 7, 2024

We are very concerned about the systematic discrimination and exclusion of law-abiding citizens who follow the teachings of the Scientology religion in Germany.

In fact, there have been at least three thousand ninety-five cases in the last ten years in which German government agencies have included “faith-breaking” clauses in their invitations to bid, requiring bidders to renounce any association with Scientology.

HRC 57 Oral Statement Persecution of the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan

Oct 5, 2024

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

Oct 4, 2024

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

Oct 3, 2024

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

Sep 27, 2024

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

Sep 26, 2024

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.