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Everyone has duties to the community in which alone
the free
and full development of his [her] personality is
possible
--Article 29: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Tandem Project gratefully acknowledges the support of the following
foundations, organizations and individuals in the development of this
Community Manual: The Laura Jane Musser Foundation; Spanish Foreign
Ministry; Barbara L. Forster; Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion
or Belief; Lois Rogers; General Mills Foundation; Virginia Binger VMB
Fund; Abdelffatah Amor, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion
or Belief; Norwegian Foreign Ministry; Lois A. Herman; Patrice Gillibert,
U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; Kristi Rudelius
Palmer, University of Minnesota Center for Human Rights; Amy Bergquist
and Michael Boucher, Minneapolis South High School; Bahiyyih G. Tahzib,
The Netherlands Foreign Ministry;Terry Higgins; Andrew Mestitz; Charlie
Elowson, Kurtis J. Peterson, Reverend Leonard Freeman; Jack Nist; Tom
Atchison; David Weissbrodt, University of Minnesota Law School.
THE TANDEM PROJECT
The Tandem Project is a non-governmental organization, founded in 1985,
to promote the 1981 U.N. Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms
of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief. It
has a nine member board of directors made of University of Minnesota
faculty and human rights activists. The name Tandem Project is from a
1984 speech in the British House of Commons--global ethics is not growing
in tandem with science and technology. The Tandem Project has
organized five international conferences on ways to implement the 1981
U.N. Declaration in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1986; Warsaw, Poland, 1989;
New Delhi, India, 1993; London, England 1995; Oslo, Norway. 1998. The
Tandem Project recommend to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of
Religion or Belief that he organize a U.N. School Consultation Conference
on curricula for the 1981 U.N. Declaration. The conference was held in
2001 in Madrid, Spain. The Tandem Project served on the Preparatory Committee
for the conference that was attended by 80 governments and over 600 people.
The Tandem Project has contributed articles or chapters to four books
on international freedom of religion or belief.
Barbara L. Forster, Chair
Michael M. Roan, Director
The Tandem Project
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