by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Oct 1, 2013 | CAP LC Europe, OSCE
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” and constitute “sectarian drifts”.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Sep 22, 2013 | France
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...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | Sep 22, 2013 | news
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses attacked in Ajaccio, Corsica: Manuel Valls keeps silence Corse Matin (02.08.2013) – An apparent firebomb attack was directed against a Jehovah’s Witness meeting hall on the evening of 31st July in the city of...
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | May 17, 2013 | news
The first reason is that in Russia, in the early 1990’s, anti-cultism was a marginal and rare occurrence. Then it gained strength and became common and ordinary. To me, as a religious expert concerned with problems related to freedom of conscience, anti¬cultism became a sort of addition to the two main problems in Russia – idiots and roads’. In my point of view, today anti-cultists are enthusiasts who suggest the most harmful and foolish ways of solving problems concerning religious life.The second reason – I like the documentary film by Mikhail Romm Obyknoveniy fashizm [Ordinary Fascise For me, the combination of documentation and logic is the key to solving problems, but we will talk about this later.
by CAP Liberté de Conscience | May 2, 2013 | CAP LC United Nations, UN UPR
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.
