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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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A Fireside Chat about Russian Society and Perceptions of War and...

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More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin maintains tight control over domestic narratives to be delivered to...
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US report highlights security services’ concerns over covert Muslim Brotherhood operations in...

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Version en français & english A report published by George Washington University (GWU) in the United States has detailed the highly negative concerns of the security services across seven European countries...
Germany Segration

Germany Systemic mass-scale religious segregation condoned by the European Union for...

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As of 5 October 2024, 512 public tenders submitted by Germany to the EU in the nine first months of the year were accepted...
Jehovah Witnesses in Russia

Russia, 147 Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to heavy terms languish behind bars

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On 25 October, 46-year-old Jehovah's Witness Roman Mareev was released after having served his prison term but many others are still behind barbed wires: 147 according to the database...
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PANAMA, the cradle of the fourth edition of the Faith and...

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Panama, a reference for its successful accommodation of the de facto religious diversity and the peaceful coexistence between historical, tribal and new religions This year,...
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France – Yoga: Disproportionate widescale police raids with abuses starting from...

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The starting point was a personal revenge by an academic who got a suspended sentence of four months in prison for harassment On 28 November...
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In NORWAY the Russian Orthodox Church still financed by the State...

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Concern mounts about the increasing purchase of properties by the Russian Orthodox Church near military sites in Norway, which poses security issues.
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The EU Special Envoy on Freedom of Religion or Belief on...

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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...
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Voices raised in Brussels for a ban on all forced labour products from China

The European Commission “to propose an import ban on all products produced by forced labour and on products produced by all Chinese companies

Sexual violence and rape as abuses of power in Russia’s war on Ukraine

Presentation at the hearing “Sexual violence and rape as abuses of power” held by the FEMM Committee of the European Parliament on 13 October

Six more Jehovah’s Witnesses firmly sentenced to prison in Russia in August

The persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses is going on unabated. In the last eight months, 26 of them have been sentenced for merely practicing their...

South Korea: Conscientious objectors, a legal battle against punitive alternative service

Conscientious objectors: a legal battle against punitive alternative service Hye-min Kim, a Jehovah’s Witness and an objector to military service, is the first person known to have...

Final sentences to prison terms for 20 Jehovah’s Witnesses since 1 January 2022

The persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses is going on unabated. In the last six months, 20 of them have been sentenced for practising their religion...

Czech MEP Zdechovsky : ”Organ harvesting is a lucrative state-sponsored business in China”

“Organ harvesting is a lucrative business that is state-sponsored in China and specifically targets Falun Gong practitioners as well as other prisoners of conscience,...

BELGIUM: Jehovah’s Witnesses acquitted on appeal for alleged discrimination and incitement to hatred

Jehovah's Witnesses acquitted on appeal for alleged discrimination and incitement to hatred On 7 June 2022, the Ghent Court of Appeal acquitted the Belgian Association of Jehovah's...

Russia: A Danish Jehovah’s Witness released after five years in prison

After five years spent in prison, Dennis Christensen was released this Tuesday 24th May. He is expected to be deported to Denmark on Wednesday...

Putin recruits ‘Muslims’ for his war in Ukraine

In the name of the alleged defence of the “Russian World” and the Russian-speaking inhabitants of Ukraine (against their will), President Vladimir Putin has...

Why was a British Brussels-based journalist abusively detained and interrogated in Calais?

Martin Banks, a well-known British journalist in the EU Bubble in Brussels, was stopped and detained by the British police authorities at the Eurotunnel...
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