France-Japan: Some elements of comparison and UN norms
Several freedoms and rights guaranteed by UN instruments were violated in French and Japanese cases of abduction, confinement for the purpose of forceful religious de-conversion. However, the treatment of such cases was very different in France and in Japan. Freedom...
Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review France 2013
The European Office for Human Rights of the Church of Scientology (EOHRCS), la Coordination des associations et des particuliers pour la liberté de conscience (CAP), and the Centre of Information and Counseling on New Spiritualities (CICNS) noted with concern a continued repressive policy towards minorities of religion or belief and new religious movements, despite recommendations made to France during its first UPR.
State security spies on high-level politicians about their possible links with sects
“International human rights organizations can play a cleaning up role that our ‘system’ is apparently not able to play by itself,”says Senator Prof. Rik Torfs. HRWF Int’l is in support of the senator and is willing to lend him a hand in...Chamber judgments concerning France
The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing the following three Chamber judgments1, none of which is final. The Religious Association of the Pyramid Temple/Association Cultuelle Du Temple Pyramide v. France (application no. 50471/07) The...
