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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.

PAKISTAN: MEPs visit in Islamabad: Interview of MEP Tomáš Zdechovsky
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PAKISTAN: MEPs visit in Islamabad: Interview of MEP Tomáš Zdechovsky

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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Amhara voices of despair from East Wellega

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

Ukrainian neo-Nazis threaten a Ukrainian blogger in Spain
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Ukrainian neo-Nazis threaten a Ukrainian blogger in Spain

Anatoliy Sharij, a Ukrainian videoblogger, has been on the run in Europe since he left his country in 2011 to save his life which was threatened by neo-Nazis. In the…

5 November 2021 · 4 min read

City diplomacy offers opportunities
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City diplomacy offers opportunities

Published originally on December 26th 2020 at the TaipeiTimes. This year has been unusual on many levels. In the midst of a global health crisis ravaging the world, Czech Senate…

27 December 2020 · 5 min read

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Is France using political Islam to target religion as such?

The law meant to tackle political Islamism in France should not target religion The resurgence in attacks by radical Islamists in France, home to Europe’s largest Muslim population, has rekindled…

20 November 2020 · 5 min read