Our advocacy papers

2021:

• European Association of Jehovah’s Witnesses: Submission about France to the UN Human Rights Committee (132nd Session)
• EN/GER: Hamburg District Court Decision Jehovah’s Witnesses Germany v. FECRIS – Hamburg Landgericht Urteil Zeugen Jehovahs gegen FECRIS
• DUTCH: België: Ghent Court Decision v. Jehovah’s Witnesses (Original language)
• EN: Belgium: Ghent Court Decision v. Jehovah’s Witnesses (Unofficial translation)
• FR: BELGIQUE: Ghent Court Decision v. Jehovah’s Witnesses (Unofficial translation)
• TAIWAN: Education, Conscience and Tax Justice
• The Activities of FECRIS in the EU Member States
• FR: FRANCE: Livre Blanc – La laïcité et les moyens de la préserver

 

2020:

• A White Paper: Justice Denied: The Tai Ji Men Case in Taiwan
• Remember December 1996 – How Tai Ji Men’s Persecution Started in Taiwan (Oral presentation at a webinar)
• Justice Denied: The Tai Ji Men Case in Taiwan (Press Conference)
• TAIWAN: Tax Justice and Religious Freedom: The Tai Ji Men case and beyond (Oral presentation at a webinar)
• FRANCE: The law meant to tackle ‘separatism issues’ should not target religion (Oral presentation at a webinar)
• EN: FORB Roundtable (Brussels-EU) Letter to French President Macron concerning the announcements on the “Law on separatism”
  FR: FORB Roundtable (Brussels-EU) Lettre au président français Macron concernant les annonces sur « la loi sur le séparatisme »
• TAIWAN: The Persecution of Tai Ji Men by the Tax Administration (Oral presentation at a webinar)
• EN: France: A White Paper on “Separatism”, Religion & “Cults”: Religious Liberty Issues
  FR: France: Un livre blanc – “Séparatisme”, Religions et “Sectes”: Questions de liberté religieuse
• Who Is Afraid of Chairman Lee? The Crackdown on Shincheonji in South Korea: A Third White Paper
• EN: FRANCE: The proposed ‘law on separatisms’ should not target religion
  FR: FRANCE : Le projet de loi sur les séparatismes ne doit pas s’en prendre à la religion
• Freedom of Religion or Belief in Algeria, a constitutional and legal framework
• EN: Austria: Federal Office of Sect Issues Targets COVID-19 Dissenters. An Orwellian “Ministry of Truth”? (FOREF Europe & HRWF)
  GER: ÖSTERREICH: Die Bundesstelle Für Sektenfragen nimmt COVID-19 andersdenkende ins vizier. Ein Orwellsches „Wahrheitsministerium”?
• Opposition to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia: Legal Measures (Seminar: “Jehovah’s Witnesses and Their Opponents: Russia, the West, and Beyond”)
• COVID-19: Treatment of Clusters in Protestant Churches and the Shincheonji Church in South Korea. A Comparative Study
• COVID-19: Scapegoating Shincheonji in South Korea: A Second White Paper
• EN: Shincheonji and Coronavirus in South Korea: Sorting Fact from Fiction – A White Paper
  FR: Shincheonji et le coronavirus en Corée du Sud : de la réalité à la fiction – Un livre blanc
  GER: Shincheonji und das Coronavirus in Südkorea : Trennung von Fakten und Fiktion Eine öffentliche Diskussionsschrift
  IT: Shincheonji e il coronavirus in Corea del Sud: separare i fatti dalla fantasia – Un libro bianco
  ES: Shincheonji y el COVID-19 en la República de Corea Discerniendo realidad de ficción – Un libro blanco
• The Persecution of Tai Ji Men by the Tax Administration in Taiwan: Comparison with Jehovah’s Witnesses v. France at the European Court

2019:

• The Ahmadis in the world: a human rights perspective
• The rise of nationalisms in Bulgaria and their impact on religious freedom
• Burqa, niqab, full-face veil controversies in Europe
• MOROCCO: Religious Freedom: Constitutional and Legal Framework

2018:

• Kyrgyzstan faces increasing religious diversity: Its responses raise concerns
• The Church of Almighty God Persecution in China – Refugee Problems Abroad
• The Contribution of the European Court of Human Rights to Religious Freedom in the EU Space
• Droit d’asile refusé à des croyants chinois en France sur fond de répression religieuse en Chine

2017:

• Belgian Parliamentary Report on Radical Islam and Islamic Radicalism
• France: About the Protection of Christian Places of Worship
• The State of Religious Freedom in Russia
• Antisect movements and Laïcité: The French-Russian Orthodox Connection

2015:

• Persecution of Christians in the World
• Freedom of Religion or Belief in Armenia
• Freedom of Religion or Belief and Gender Issues Attempting to Bridge the Gaps

2012:

• Intersectionality of Freedom of Religion or Belief and Women’s Rights: The “Burqa Issue” in the EU