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

Limitations of religious freedom in China are now worse than they even were since the Cultural Revolution

Mar 8, 2019

Limitations of religious freedom in China are now worse than they even were since the Cultural Revolution

Asylum Seekers from The Church of Almighty God in Japan

Mar 8, 2019

Asylum Seekers from The Church of Almighty God in Japan

U.N. religious freedom expert seeks visit to China’s Xinjiang

Mar 7, 2019

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations investigator on religious freedom said on Tuesday he has asked China to let him visit its Xinjiang region where some 1 million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims are in facilities activists call mass detention camps. Facing growing...

The ban of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Russian Federation

Mar 7, 2019

Human Rights Council Fortieth session 25 February–22 March 2019 Agenda item 4Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Written statement*submitted by Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience, a non-governmental...

40th Human Rights Council Session : Clustered interactive dialogue with: Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief

Mar 7, 2019

Human Rights Council 40th session – 5th March 2019
Item 3: Clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the freedom of religion and the Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children

Church of Scientology wins case in appellate court of Caen against the former head of Miviludes, Georges Fenech

Feb 19, 2019

By Willy Fautré HRWF (13.02.2019) - Georges Fenech, 64, former president of the MIVILUDES (Interministerial mission for the monitoring and fight against cults) from 2008 to 2012 and three time member of the National Assembly, recently lost a case against the Church of...