Asia
The EU Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief on mission in Pakistan
The EU Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Mr Frans van Daele, is on the eve of carrying out a fact-finding mission in Pakistan. The dates announced two...
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.
Asia
The EU Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief, Mr Frans van Daele, is on the eve of carrying out a fact-finding mission in Pakistan. The dates announced two...
9 September 2024 · 7 min read
Europe
On Independence Day, President Zelensky signed Law № 8371 banning the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in Ukraine through the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) On 24 August 2024,...
25 August 2024 · 5 min read
Editor's choice
On 28 November 2023, just after 6 a.m., a SWAT team of around 175 policemen wearing black masks, helmets, and bullet proof vests, simultaneously descended on eight separate houses and...
19 August 2024 · 10 min read
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On August 8, 2014, Judge Sergey Lytkin of the Kurgan City Court convicted Anatoliy Isakov, 59, for so-called extremism simply for holding peaceful private Christian worship services. The prosecutor requested for Anatoly Isakov...
12 August 2024 · 3 min read
Europe
On 18 July 2024, the European Court of Human Rights examined nine complaints filed by Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia who were subjected to illegal searches, arrests, and convictions because of...
29 July 2024 · 4 min read
Europe
The world community strongly condemned Russia’s shelling of the historical center of Odesa which damaged and disfigured the Orthodox Transfiguration Cathedral. Many Western delegations visited Odesa but only two Western...
24 July 2024 · 8 min read
America
Controversial accusations of criminal activities and prosecutions rejected for the second time. A setback for the prosecutors On 5 June last, the National Chamber of Cassation for Criminal and Correctional...
9 July 2024 · 6 min read
FORB
Gevorg Yeritsyan, a Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to 6 years and 2 months in prison at the end of June, declared in court at the end of his trial: “Jehovah's Witnesses...
5 July 2024 · 5 min read
FORB
Inappropriate and disproportionate use of massive police raids on several yoga centers and abusive detention of dozens of yoga practitioners. Still no progress in the judicial proceedings. “In the last...
28 June 2024 · 9 min read
Europe
At least 19 people were victims of an attack on police officers, Orthodox churches and synagogues in Dagestan Derbent and Makhachkala on Sunday evening. Five attackers were killed, the authorities...
24 June 2024 · 4 min read
