by HRWF | Aug 8, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
ECHR: European Court of Human Rights to determine whether it was legal to worship by COVID ZENIT News (31.07.2023).- Are blanket bans on public worship compatible with the international human right to the communal exercise of religious freedom? This is the question...
by HRWF | Jul 10, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
BELGIUM: Some reflections about the recommendations of the Federal Cult Observatory on “cult victims” (I) By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (10.07.2023) – On June 26, the Federal Observatory on Cults (CIAOSN/ IACSSO), officially known...
by HRWF | May 15, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
GERMANY: Germany denies Christian private school accreditation, case filed at Europe’s top human rights court German hybrid school—innovative in-class and at home learning model—takes challenge to European Court of Human Rights after accreditation denied Germany has...
by HRWF | Mar 7, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: New legislation restricting missionary work breached the European Convention Registrar of the European Court (07.03.2023) – In today’s Chamber judgment1 in the case of Ossewaarde v. Russia (application no. 27227/17) the European Court of Human Rights...
by HRWF | Feb 27, 2023 | Freedom of Religion and Belief
RUSSIA: Russia to pay about 350,000 EUR to Jehovah’s Witnesses for disrupting their religious meetings European Times (24.02.2023) – Jehovah’s Witnesses Russia (03.02.2023) – On January 31, 2023, the European Court of Human Rights, having considered...
