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The UPF: Moon Front or a Respected NGO?
The Universal Peace Federation (UPF) might not be known to most readers of The European Times but it enjoys the UN ECOSOC general consultative status reserved to “fairly large, established…
Willy Fautré, former chargé de mission at the Cabinet of the Belgian Ministry of Education and at the Belgian Parliament. He is the director of Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF), an NGO based in Brussels that he founded in December 1988. His organization defends human rights in general with a special focus on ethnic and religious minorities, freedom of expression, women’s rights and LGBT people. HRWF is independent from any political movement and any religion. Fautré has carried out fact-finding missions on human rights in more than 25 countries, including in perilous regions such as in Iraq, in Sandinist Nicaragua or in Maoist held territories of Nepal. He is a lecturer in universities in the field of human rights. He has published many articles in university journals about relations between state and religions. He is a member of the Press Club in Brussels. He is a human rights advocate at the UN, the European Parliament and the OSCE. If you are interested in us following up your case, get in touch.
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The Universal Peace Federation (UPF) might not be known to most readers of The European Times but it enjoys the UN ECOSOC general consultative status reserved to “fairly large, established…
13 February 2022 · 6 min read
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Germany: Property of archives in a German military museum claimed by anti-war Jehovah’s Witnesses As reported by The New York Times on 25 January, Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany are seeking to obtain…
26 January 2022 · 3 min read
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Over 80 Jehovah’s Witnesses are in prison in Russia, including four of them sentenced in the first three weeks of January 2022 Credit photos: Courtesy of Jehovah’s Witnesses On January…
21 January 2022 · 4 min read
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A court in Seversk sentenced this 68-year old Jehovah’s Witness to three years in a penal colony. A week ago, Maksim Nikolayevich Beltikov was sentenced to two years in prison On 19 January…
20 January 2022 · 4 min read
Christianity
On the occasion of the upcoming 134th session of the UN Human Rights Committee (28 February – 25 March 2022), the African Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses (AAJW) and the European Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses…
13 January 2022 · 5 min read
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On the eve of the Winter Olympic Games to be held in China, this conference and the protest demonstrations simultaneously held in Geneva, Berlin, Brussels and Antwerp are welcome to…
7 January 2022 · 5 min read
Human Rights
In any extradition matter, the requesting state must deliver facts and evidence to support its reasonable suspicion of the perpetration of a crime. However, the Russian request concerning Rossi I…
15 December 2021 · 5 min read
Human Rights
Ukraine: Controversial law on sanctions imposed on video-blogger Anatoliy Sharij and his wife BRUSSELS/1 December 2021// On 20 August 2021, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) imposed…
1 December 2021 · 5 min read
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BRUSSELS/ISLAMABAD - On 10 February 2021, MEP Peter Van Dalen, a Dutch member of the European Parliament and co-chair of the Intergroup on Freedom of Religion or Belief addressed a…
28 November 2021 · 5 min read
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Photo credits: SM/Borkena – TPLF militia On 4 November, the EU High Representative issued a declaration about the situation in Ethiopia in which he stressed that “the EU is particularly…
8 November 2021 · 7 min read
