The Guild of Experts on Religion and Law
The attached letter is from The Guild of Experts on Religion and Law regarding the Council of Europe report.
The attached letter is from The Guild of Experts on Religion and Law regarding the Council of Europe report.
Reprinted from a newsletter by Human Rights Without Frontiers Int’l (www.hrwf.eu) Fifteen months after the European elections, there is still no appointment of an EU Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief. Since the mandate of EU Special Envoy was created in 2016, the position has repeatedly been kept vacant for long periods without…
The website Atalayar examines the problems connected with political versus religious Islam in a new article published this week. Over the past few decades, Europe has undergone profound demographic and cultural changes as a result of immigration and multiculturalism, leading to the emergence of Muslim communities that have become an integral part of the European…
France has passed a shocking new law on 9th April, that targets religious minorities (though can be used against any religion) as well as certain natural health practitioners who have been recategorized as ‘cult leaders’ for not supporting mainstream medical treatments. The core of this new law now states that it is a criminal offence…
Tracey Coleman attended this year’s Interfaith Network AGM and Annual National Meeting. The All Faiths Network is a National Member Body. The purpose of IFN is to Promoting inter faith understanding and cooperation and acts as an umbrella group for different interfaith groups and religious organisations to to promote understanding, cooperation and good relations between…
Catholic peer, Lord Alton, has called on the British government to accept the “reality” of the persecution of Christians in Pakistan, as a report launched today finds UK government policy on Pakistani religious minorities to be inadequate. The All Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief, of which Lord Alton is a…
Germany’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a complete ban on teachers wearing headscarves is not compatible with religious freedom. This decision overturns an earlier ruling from September last year. A German labour court had ruled in September that church institutions are permitted to ban the wearing of muslim headscarves if they deemed it necessary. Legal…