Freedom of Religion and Belief
FRANCE: A Swiss criticism of the French MIVILUDES: “Opaque methods & imprecise data” The Director of the Intercantonal Information Center on Beliefs (CIC), Manéli Farahmand, co-signed with academic psychiatrist and expert of alternative therapies, Fabrice Berna,...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
FRANCE: Police raids on peaceful yoga practitioners and abuses in police custody A survey based on about 20 interviews Version in French Version in Romanian By Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers THE EUROPEAN TIMES (19.08.2024) – On 28...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
FRANCE: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone: How one woman destroyed France’s Olympic rhetoric The athlete who smashed her own world record in 400m hurdles is a member of a church France would call a “cult” if it knew it. And she proclaims it loudly. by Massimo Introvigne...
Freedom of Religion and Belief
FRANCE: Olympics show what’s wrong with French ‘laïcité’ Hijab is forbidden to Muslim French athletes, but the opening ceremony featured a drag queen parody of Jesus’s Last Supper that even the arch-moderate French Catholic Bishops protested. By Massimo Introvigne...
Women's Rights & Gender Equality
UN: Geneva and Strasbourg on the same line about purchase of sexual acts Independent expert welcomes European Court decision validating conventionality of French law of 13 April 2016 criminalising purchase of sexual acts UN (26.07.2024) – The Special Rapporteur on...
