Freedom of Religion and Belief
Belgium, the black sheep of the European Court about systemic religious discrimination By Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (09.01.2026) – It will soon be three years since Strasbourg ruled that Belgium’s system of state recognition of religions and belief...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
BELGIUM: Jehovah’s Witnesses’ prisoners cannot be visited any more by their chaplains, denounced at the OSCE Warsaw Human Dimension Conference (OSCE/ ODIHR) – Plenary Session: Tolerance and Non-Discrimination HRWF Oral Statement (13.10.2025) – Human Rights...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
BELGIUM: Jehovah’s Witnesses’ prisoners cannot be visited any more by their chaplains The issue was raised at the UN Human Rights Council 60th Session in Geneva by CAP/ Liberté de conscience with Human Rights Without Frontiers. VIDEO HERE. HRWF (23.09.2025) –...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
BELGIUM – UK: The role of the media in the stigmatization of religious minorities By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (08.08.2025) – On August 1-3, 2025, the HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
BELGIUM: New circular prohibits access to prisons for chaplains of religions not recognised by the State Jehovah’s Witnesses filed a new case of religious segregation rooted in Belgium’s flawed system of recognition of religions denounced in 2022 by the European Court...
