Press release SOURCE: European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom & The All Faiths Network. 10 Apr. 2014 – STRASBOURG. The recommendations of French MP Rudy Salles which would have had the effect of exporting French anti-religious policies to the 47 Member States of the Council of...

Coordination of Associations and Individuals for the Freedom of Conscience PRESS RELEASE   The CAP on-line petition  to “Stop Proposed Legislation in Council of Europe that poses a Serious Threat to Religious Freedom” has reached 10,000 signatures – in just over...

Vincent Berger is the former Jurisconsult of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). He has been the ECtHR Jurisconsult for 7 years up till 2013 and is now professor of Law at the College of Europe in Bruges and Warsaw and an attorney at law in Paris. There is only one jurisconsult of the Court...

Professor Emeritus Rimon Kasher, from the Department of Biblical Studies of the Bar-Ilan University in Israel, wrote yesterday a letter to Mrs Anne Brasseur, President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and other members of the Assembly, in which he expresses "deep concern and...

The Protection of minors against excesses of sects, Rapporteur: Mr. Rudy Salles (via http://www.freedomofconscience.eu) RE: The Protection of minors against excesses of sects, Rapporteur: Mr. Rudy Salles [AS/Jur (2014) 07] DATE: 03 April 2014  Introduction 1. Alliance Defending Freedom...

Dr Alessandro A. Amicarelli is a Human rights lawyer, Doctor of research in "International Order and Human Rights" (SAPIENZA, University of Rome). He also researched and lectured in International Human Rights Law at the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” and has participated as a speaker on Human...

Opposition to the Council of Europe’s Upcoming Vote to Establish “Sect Observatories” and “Sect Awareness Sessions” Swells (via World Religion News) Next week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will vote on a Report and Resolution that proposes to adopt the...