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.

SUDAN: The SAF aims to govern from Khartoum by October, yet is weighed down by allegations of war crimes and Islamist allies
Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@randyfath?utm_source=instant-images&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Randy Fath</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Unsplash</a>

Africa

SUDAN: The SAF aims to govern from Khartoum by October, yet is weighed down by allegations of war crimes and Islamist allies

In a conflict as long and devastating as Sudan’s, optics are important, perhaps especially so when the conflict has its roots in a split between forces who once fought alongside each other.…

2 September 2025 · 4 min read

Europe

Concerns grow in Switzerland over Muslim Brotherhood ‘entryism’

Switzerland and Germany are the latest European countries to see politicians voicing concerns about the influence and reach of the Muslim Brotherhood. Recent weeks have seen prominent Swiss politican Jacqueline de Quattro demand a France-style investigation into the…

11 August 2025 · 4 min read

Religion: Beware of testimonies of former members. The case of J.A.
Inside the spiritual center of the AROPL’s Headquarters in England (Credit: Bitter Winter).

Human Rights

Religion: Beware of testimonies of former members. The case of J.A.

A number of high-profile media outlets in the UK recently targeted the Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light (AROPL), a new religious movement inside Islam, on the basis of declarations…

30 July 2025 · 7 min read