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 – 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: Still no revision of state recognition of religions 3 years after a severe ruling of the European Court By failing to implement a decision of the European Court in 2022, Belgium has joined the list of bad students of the Council of Europe HRWF (19.05.2025) –...
Human Rights in the World
ECHR: Case of missing Ukrainian children in Crimea under Russian jurisdiction raised in Strasbourg Notification to Russian Government of a case concerning ten Ukrainian children from Crimean childcare institutions Registrar of the Court (14.04.2025) – The...
