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

Oral statement on China General Debate Item 6 – 40th HRC session

Mar 16, 2019

Oral statement on China General Debate Item 6 – 40th HRC session Thank you M. President, CAP Liberté de Conscience would like to share with the Council its deep concern about the situation of religious liberty in China that is getting worse, not better since the last...

rejection of asylum in Japan for a persecuted religious minority in China

Mar 14, 2019

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Oral statement General Debate Item 4 – 13th March 2019 rejection of asylum in Japan for a persecuted religious minority in China. Thank you M. Vice-President, CAP Liberté de Conscience would like to share with the Council its...

Human rights situation of Uyghur minority in Xinxiang region in China must be criticised

Mar 12, 2019

For the last many years, very alarming reports started to appear in the media about the ill treatment of Uyghurs who are Muslim, by the Chinese authorities. This governmental crackdown campaign consists of public burning of Quran, forced eating of pork, removal of...

The Church of Almighty God’s Refugees in Japan: A Statement at the United Nations

Mar 12, 2019

No refugee of The Church of Almighty God has been granted asylum in Japan, a country with a very restrictive policy on refugees in general. The situation has been discussed at the United Nations Massimo Introvigne As of January 2019, 270 members of The Church of...