Avatar photo

Willy Fautre

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.

Jan Figel responds to HRWF on FoRB in Pakistan
ⒸFaithAndFreedomSummitNGO Coallition All rights reserved.

Asia

Jan Figel responds to HRWF on FoRB in Pakistan

About laws to be amended; Christians, Hindus, Ahmadis and Muslims in prison or on the death row on blasphemy charges; the EU monitoring of the implementation of the GSP+; the…

21 February 2022 · 11 min read

The UPF: Moon Front or a Respected NGO?
Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@austindistel?utm_source=instant-images&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Austin Distel</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Unsplash</a>

FORB

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…

13 February 2022 · 6 min read

Anti-war Jehovah’s Witnesses claim some Nazi-time archives from Germany
Jehovah’s Witnesses - Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany. Credit: Trip Advisor

Editor's choice

Anti-war Jehovah’s Witnesses claim some Nazi-time archives from Germany

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

Russia: Two Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to four and seven years in prison
Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@austindistel?utm_source=instant-images&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Austin Distel</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Unsplash</a>

FORB

Russia: Two Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to four and seven years in prison

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

EGYPT: Jehovah’s Witnesses banned since 1960 call upon the UN Human Rights Committee
Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@amanz?utm_source=instant-images&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Amanz</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Unsplash</a>

Christianity

EGYPT: Jehovah’s Witnesses banned since 1960 call upon the UN Human Rights Committee

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

Xi Jinping’s sinicization of religions, the new Cultural Revolution dear to Mao Zedong
Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@austindistel?utm_source=instant-images&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Austin Distel</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Unsplash</a>

Editor's choice

Xi Jinping’s sinicization of religions, the new Cultural Revolution dear to Mao Zedong

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

Ukraine now imposes sanctions on blogger Anatoliy Sharij and wife
Anatoliy Sharij

Human Rights

Ukraine now imposes sanctions on blogger Anatoliy Sharij and wife

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