freedom of conscience

RE: Follow up of Rapporteur’s visit to France (18-29 September 2005)

Dear Mrs. Jahangir:

I am writing to you on behalf of CAP (Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience – Coordination of Associations and Individuals for Freedom of Conscience), an association created in 2000 to [...]

MIVILUDE’s last report reveals that on July 15, 2009, M. Fenech invited a delegation of the Chinese embassy at MIVILUDES’s quarters.
It is not the first time that French « anti-cult » politics stirs the interest of Chinese authorities. Indeed, we recall M. Alain Vivien’s trip to China, at the time he presided the now defunct [...]

Fecris an NGO enterly financed by the french government
January 5, 2010
Mr. Andrei Abramov, Chief, NGO Branch
Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
One United Nations Plaza
Room DC1-1480
New York, NY 10017
Dear Mr. Abramov:
I am President of Coordination européenne des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience (European Coordination of Associations and Individuals for [...]

FRANCE
The antisect movements and money: Why not a parliamentary inquiry commission?
By Willy Fautré, Human Rights Without Frontiers
HRWF (08.12.2009) - Website: http://www.hrwf.net - Email: info@hrwf.net - At a colloquium organized by MIVILUDES (1) in Lyon on 27 November 2009, Mrs Catherine Picard, UNADFI (2) president, deplored the decrease in public funding of her antisect movement.
The income [...]

For more than a decade, 1 million euros has been spent every year out of taxpayers’ money to support specific lobbies. This waste of money is still going on and escaped so far the official cost reductions induced by the economic crisis.
When inquiring further into this situation, we found out a story of a carefully [...]

Fight against sects: the orientations of Georges Fenech continue to generate worry
Le Monde 2009 04 06
Six months after his posting as head of Miviludes, he should receive in the coming days his official battle plan from the Prime Minister who has direct authority upon him.
If he didn’t yet get the last arbitrations, the former MP [...]

TITLE : Infringement by the State into the evaluation of the legitimity of religious beliefs

Translation of the reply dated March 5, 2009 to a written question by Senator Masson

Dear Sir,
The association CAP Freedom of Conscience stands for members of religious minorities and individuals supporting freedom of conscience.
We would like to draw to your attention the behaviour of one member of the Miviludes, a body placed under your authority.
Many of our members were shocked by the recent statements of MP Jean-Pierre Brard(1), a member [...]

 
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