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

HRC 49th Session General debate on Item 3 : Human Rights Situation in Balochistan

Mar 16, 2022

It has already depleted the gold, uranium, and other valuable deposits in many parts of Balochistan. Now, the Baloch coast is nearly void of marine life, which has been the backbone of their economy for centuries.

Immediate Risk of Yet Another Deportation of an Ahmadi Muslim from Germany : Ali Ahmad Mubashar

Mar 11, 2022

Returning a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community to a country where his life and safety are at serious risk would be a clear breach of Germany’s obligations under international human rights law and the Convention against Torture (CAT). This includes a prohibition on sending anyone to a place where they would be at risk of such abuse. The principle of non- refoulement applies to everyone including persons who are excluded from refugee protection. We urge that the German authorities to take immediate and swift action and ensure the safety of these individuals by not deporting them back to Pakistan where they will most certainly face grave and life-threatening danger. The German authorities should grant them protection and stop deportation immediately.

Halt deportation of an ahmadi from germany to pakistan : Mr. Khalid Muhammad

Mar 11, 2022

We received the information about Mr. Khalid Muhammad who has been captured by the German authorities due to his asylum case. Mr. Khalid Muhammad came to Germany in 2013 and his asylum case got rejected twice. German authorities are planning to deport this asylum seeker belonging to the Ahmadiyya faith, in breach of national and international laws and conventions. The name of the individual who is scheduled for deportation are:

The never-ending persecution of ahmadis takes another life in bazid khel, peshawar, pakistan

Mar 11, 2022

Today, 5 March 2022, at 17:00 in Bazid Khel, Peshawar, two assailants entered the clinic of an Ahmadi Doctor, Dr. Mansoor Ahmad. One assailant was wearing a burqa in disguise and arrived shouting that he was in great pain. After this he began to fire rounds. Dr. Muhammad Shahid Ahmad (who was sitting in place of Dr. Mansoor Ahmad Sahib and was attending to patients) was hit in the head due to which he passed away at the clinic. Another member of staff, Mr. Jawad Ahmad, took a bullet to the leg and was injured. After this both assailants fled the scene. It should be noted that both the deceased and injured were not Ahmadis.

To promote reconciliation between Azerbaijan and Armenia under the motto: “Reconciliation through recognition”

Mar 11, 2022

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Khojaly massacre of civilians, and over the past 30 years there have been many peace initiatives to ensure that the massacre is properly recognised. It has been described by Human Rights Watch as “the largest massacre in the conflict” in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Russia: UN General Assembly should suspend Russia’s membership of UN Human Rights Council

Mar 11, 2022

Likewise, in its Resolution 49/1 adopted on 4 March 2022, the Human Rights Council ‘condemned in the strongest possible terms the human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law resulting from the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine’. The Council expressed ‘grave concern at the documented harm to the enjoyment of many human rights, including the rights to life, education, and the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, caused by Russian shelling and bombing in populated areas’. Further, Council resolution 49/1 expressed grave concern at reports of ‘gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights’, thereby invoking the explicit language of GA Resolution 60/251 in so far as concerns the threshold
for suspension