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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.

RUSSIA, 6 and 4 years in prison for a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Valery Maletskov with his wife and Marina Chaplykina before their conviction, Novosibirsk, December 2023 (Credit: https://jw-russia.org)

Christianity

RUSSIA, 6 and 4 years in prison for a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses

On 18 December 2023, the judge of the Novosibirsk District Court, Oleg Karpets, sentenced Marina Chaplykina to 4 years in prison, and Valeriy Maletskov to 6 years in prison for…

27 December 2023 · 2 min read

Elections in Bangladesh, Massive arrests of opposition activists
Mamun Ismail, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Asia

Elections in Bangladesh, Massive arrests of opposition activists

The upcoming general elections in Bangladesh are marred by claims of repression, arrests, and violence against the opposition. The UN and the US have raised concerns about human rights violations,…

11 December 2023 · 7 min read

Children in Armed Conflicts, the UN and the EU
Photo credit: @UNRWA_EU

Europe

Children in Armed Conflicts, the UN and the EU

In 2022, a total of 2,496 children, some as young as 8-years-old, were verified by the United Nations as detained for their actual or alleged association with armed groups, including…

4 December 2023 · 6 min read

RUSSIA, A Jehovah’s Witness deprived of his citizenship and deported to Turkmenistan
After his release from the penal colony, Seidkuliev was kept in a deportation center and expelled from the country (Credit: Jehovah’s Witnesses Russia)

Christianity

RUSSIA, A Jehovah’s Witness deprived of his citizenship and deported to Turkmenistan

On September 17, 2023, employees of the Federal Migration Service, contrary to a court decision, deported Rustam Seidkuliev to Turkmenistan. Earlier, at the initiative of the FSB, his Russian citizenship…

26 October 2023 · 3 min read

Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral, international uproar about Putin’s missile strike (II)
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Europe

Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral, international uproar about Putin’s missile strike (II)

Bitter Winter (09.01.2023) - 23 July 2023 was a Black Sunday for the city of Odesa and for Ukraine. When Ukrainians and the rest of the world woke up, they discovered…

2 September 2023 · 6 min read