IRF Roundtable in Europe
As the venue for our next IRF Roundtable in Europe meeting the 23 October is now secured, here are some basic information regarding this event: 1. The meeting will take place Thursday October 23, 2014 • from 14h00 to 16h30, at the Renaissance Hotel – Rue du...Synthesis of the voluntary work side event OSCE – HDIM – 2014
Synthesis of the voluntary work side event OSCE – HDIM – 2014 Voluntary work in spiritual environments and its criminalization in modern society During our side event regarding the voluntary work, in which we wanted to find out if is the judicial system misused...
Report on France OSCE 2014
For years, France has had a policy of stigmatization and negative stereotyping of minorities of religion or belief it has labeled as “sects” or, more recently as “sectarian movements”. This derogatory classification corresponds to the improper assessment of religion or beliefs and the consideration that some of them, new or minority ones not belonging to traditional Churches or Institutions are “deviant”, can only stem from a “psychological hold” on the followers and constitute “sectarian abuses”.
The 1998 Ministerial Report on “cults”
Are the media campaign and the legislative initiatives targeting some religious movements the product of an accurate and scientific analysis? Or, instead, are there special interests taking undue advantage from State structures for questionable purposes? And the State lends itself and contributes to amplify this alarm with questionable, to say the least, initiatives.
