IssueS & REPORTs Human Rights & Freedom of Religion or Belief
ISSUE: Perspectives - Melville's Moby Dick - An American Nekyia ISSUE: SOROBAS - Separation of Religion or Belief and State ISSUE: Your View - UN General Assembly Resolution 66/167 ISSUE: INVITATION - Focus Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: KENYA - FLyers & Announcement: Forum & Discussion - Kenya Elections in 2012/2013; the impact for the region ISSUE: INVITATION - Focus Group on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: PERSPECTIVES - 1981 UN Declaration - 25 Year Commemoration in Prague 2006 ISSUE: PERSPECTIVES - Freedom of Choice & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: UN News Release - Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Questionnaire - Understanding International Human Rights and Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Nobel Peace Prize Forum - 1-3 March 2012 ISSUE: Nobel Peace Prize Forum - 1-3 March 2012 ISSUE: PERSPECTIVES - Escape from Evil & Reconciliation of Opposites ISSUE: Koran by Heart ISSUE: Becker & Melville Perspectives - Underlying causes of conflict based on religion or belief ISSUE: Inaugural Focus Group - Human Rights & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: UN THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS - A/C.3/66/L.47; L.48 - Adopted by Consensus ISSUE: Beliefs & Rights & Reflections on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: NORWAY - Will Norway amend Article 4 of the 1814 Norwegian Constitution by their 200 year anniversary and 2014 Norway Universal Periodic Review? ISSUE: Fyodor Dostoevsky - Choice & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Why the KING OF NORWAY Cannot Choose his own Religion or Belief ISSUE: PERSPECTIVE - Ernest Becker on ESCAPE FROM EVIL ISSUE: PERSPECTIVES: Combating Defamation of Religions - Reconciliation of Opposities ISSUE: Assimilation & Multiculturalism - Separation of Religion or Belief and State ISSUE: OHCHR Asia-Pacific Experts Workshop - Prohibition of Incitement to National, Racial or Religious Hatred ISSUE: Assimilation & Multiculturalism - Separation of Religion or Belief and State ISSUE: Separation of Religion or Belief and State ISSUE: UN Human Rights Council Panel Discussion - Culture of Tolerance and Peace - 14 June 2011 ISSUE: Review: UN Human Rights Council - Panel and Discussion on a Culture of Tolerance and Peace ISSUE: Geneva - Panel Discussion on Promotion of Respect for a Culture of Tolerance and Peace ISSUE: United Nations: History, Religion, Science & Inquiry ISSUE: Somalia & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: OIC - Organization of the Islamic Conference ISSUE: Comparisons for Dialogue - 1981 UN Declaration on Freedom of Religion or Belief & 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam ISSUE: Commemorative Event - Rapporteur's Digest on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: HISTORY - United Nations & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: The Tandem Project Internet Course ISSUE: Kenya - Universal Periodic Review & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISUUE: UN Review: Friday 5 November 2010 - United States of America Universal Periodic Review & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Minneapolis Muslims Branded as Apostates for Attending Interfaith Prayer Service ISSUE: Three Proposals: Academic Discourse on Human Rights & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Reaching for The Third Rail - Mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Multi-faith Prayer Service for Respect: Invitation to Human Rights Forum for Places of Worship ISSUE: UN Draft Plan of Action - Phase 2 (2010-2014) of the World Programme for Human Rights Education ISSUE: Questionnaire on the Universal Meanng of Human Rights & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Islam & Apostasy - Opportunity for Deeper Dialogue ISSUE: Progress - Mandate on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Protest Schools Ruling ISSUE: New SR on Freedom of Religion or Belief - HRC Consensus on Mandate ISSUE: PAKISTAN - Exchange of Information ISSUE: Implementing Human Rights Treaties in the United States - a Political Non-starter in America ISSUE: Reflections- Human Rights & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Nigeria - Limits on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Diverse Perspectives on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: PAKISTAN - Higher Education & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: American Cartoon & Freedom of Opinion and Expression ISSUE: Senegal Urged to Rein in Religious Schools ISSUE: Resolving the Impasse – Working Group for a Convention on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Update on Consensus without Compromise ISSUE: Consensus Without Compromise - Religion and Human Rights - The Limits of Freedom and Faith ISSUE: Consensus fails again - Resolution Combating Defamation of Religions ISSUE: Human Rights Education & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Indicators of Inclusive and Genuine Approaches to Human Rights & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Geneva - Report of UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief to 13th Session of UN Human Rights Council ISSUE: How Christian were the Founders? History Wars: Inside America's Textbook Battles ISSUE: Under Indonesia's Surface, an Intricate Quilt of Faiths ISSUE: Free Speech Collides with Fight against Terror ISSUE: For a French Imam. Islam's True Enemy is Radicalism ISSUE: In Egypt, Religious Clashes are off the Record ISSUE: To Heal Haiti, Look to History, Not Nature ISSUE: Pope Tries to Soothe Tensions with Jews ISSUE: Religion or Belief & Women's Human Rights ISSUE: Western Science & Eastern Religion ISSUE: Global Restrictions on Religion ISSUE: British High Court Ruling on Jewish School ISSUE: Tolerance for Diversity of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Ban on Minarets - Islam, Democracy and Human Rights ISSUE: Evolution - We May be Born with an Urge to Help ISSUE: Defamation of Religion - 2 Papers, UN Resolution, UN Member States Comments ISSUE: The values question - is health care a right or a privilege? ISSUE: The Evolution of the God Gene ISSUE: Creationism, Minus a Young Earth, Emerges in the Islamic World ISSUE: International Convention on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Indonesian Penal Code - A Violation of International Human Rights Law ISSUE: Benedict's Gambit - UN guidelines needed on respectful ways to the right to conversion ISSUE: Dialogue or Conversion - Roman Catholics & Anglicans ISSUE: Somalia to Minneapolis - Foreign Ways & War Scars Test Hospital ISSUE: Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to U.S. President Barack Obama ISSUE: Hints of Pluralism Appear in Eqyptian Religious Debates ISSUE: Legal Limits on Freedom of Religion or Belief to Protect Morals ISSUE: Science is in the Details - Equal Rights for all Beliefs ISSUE: UN-based Questionnaire - The Ultimate Meaning of Life ISSUE: Pope Calls for UN Reform & New World Economic Order for Common Good ISSUE: France Considers Ban on Burqa in Public ISSUE: Corruption - can the UN Human Rights Council do anything about it? ISSUE: UN Resolution Threatens Independence of UN Special Rapporteurs ISSUE: Norway - Cooperation Instead of Religious Dialogue ISSUE: UN Chamber of Human Rights & Alliance of Civilizations ISSUE: Saudi Local Elections Delayed for Two Years ISSUE: For Somalia - Chaos Breeds Religious War ISSUE: Recalculating Happiness in a Himalayan Kingdom ISSUE: Pakistan - Islamic Schools Fills Void but Fuels Militancy ISSUE: United Nations History; Religion, Science & Inquiry ISSUE: Modern Universities - Specialization Where There Ought to be Collaboration ISSUE: Reclaiming America's Soul ISSUE: Why I Went to Geneva - Durban Review Conference ISSUE: Indonesia - Adopted Universal Periodic Review & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: President Obama visits the Blue Mosque & Hagia Sophia with Alliance of Civilizations ISSUE: Evolutionary Approach to Morality and the Social Nature of Moral Intuition ISSUE: Moment of Truth & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Durban Review Conference Preparatory Committee ISSUE: Geneva NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Muslim Imam & Muslim U.S. Congressman Minneapolis Interfaith Dialogue Leaders ISSUE: Open Letter to Norway ISSUE: 2009 UN Report on Freedom of Religion or Belief & Call for a UN Working Group ISSUE: Israel & Occupied Palestinian Territories ISSUE: Minneapolis - Suicide Bomber is Linked Locally ISSUE: The New Atheism and Something More - Human Rights & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: 2009 Report UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief - Summary & Recommendations ISSUE: Human Rights – Religion & Science ISSUE: Minneapolis - Recruited for Jihad? ISSUE: Linking Local, National & International Approaches to Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Preparation for United States Universal Periodic Review in 2010 ISSUE: The Pope's Human Rights - Inside & Outside the Vatican ISSUE: President Obama's Hope and a Note of Caution from George Orwell's 1984 ISSUE: Atheist Bus Ads & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: New Year's Call for Inclusive and Genuine Dialogue on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: United Nations & President-elect Obama on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Nigeria: Are there solutions for Jos? ISSUE: Focus on Freedom of Religion or Belief and New York Seminar on Freedom of Religion or Belief. ISSUE: Between 50 & 60 Year Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ISSUE: Chicago Cardinal Challenges President-elect Obama on Abortion and Stem Cell Research ISSUE: Now is the time for an International Convention on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Interfaith Dialogue at the Vatican between Catholics and Muslims ISSUE: Basic Questions about Language of Religion in Sub-Saharan Africa ISSUE: Faith Linked to Spiritual Warfare - Choice & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Faith, Evolution, Morality - Facing the thorny issues of conflict between faith and science ISSUE: Nuclear Weapons: Synergy is Essential for U.N. Security and U.N. Human Rights Councils ISSUE: Interim Report - U.N. Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Norway - Separation of State Church and State - Preparation for Norway Universal Periodic Review in 2009 ISSUE: Question for Neuroscience: How free are we to coose a religion or belief? ISSUE: All Culture is Sacred - Oct. 6-17 Second Substantive Session Preparation for Durban Review Conference ISSUE: Oct 2-3 Consultation - Defamation of Religion, Incitement to Religious Hatred, Freedom of Opinion and Expression ISSUE: Norway - Project on Missionary Activity and Human Rights ISSUE: Re-examining the principle of laicite in France as a Follow-up to the Universal Periodic Review ISSUE: Separation of Church and State - UPR Preparation in Norway and United States of America ISSUE: Kashmir Follow-up Proposal for India and Pakistan Universal Periodic Reviews ISSUE: Culture, Community and the Right to Change One's Religion or Belief ISSUE: Religious and Scientific Core Beliefs held in Tandem with Human Rights ISSUE: Proselytism and religious conversions, the right to change one's religion or belief ISSUE: All Culture is Sacred in Symbolic Affairs of People; Preparation for Durban Review Conference ISSUE: Inclusive Dialogue between the West and Islam ISSUE: Algeria - Islam and Education, and the Algerian Universal Periodic Review ISSUE: Canada & United States - differ on the right to freedom of opinion and expression ISSUE: Indonesia violates Article 18 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ISSUE: Teaching evolution in the United States of America public schools ISSUE: Vatican decree on excommunication of women priests ISSUE: State Discrimination by Zimbabwe against followers of the Anglican tradition of Christian religion ISSUE: The Scientific Revolution - what it may mean for Inter-religious and Inter-Cultural Dialogue ISSUE: President Apostate? - Why an Obama win might not improve relations with Muslims ISSUE: High level theological dialogue - human rights & freedom of religion or belief ISSUE: Indonesia - Universal Periodic Review (UPR) - what about the follow-up? ISSUE: The Pope at the United Nations ISSUE: Call to Review Draft Code of Conduct for Missionary Activities ISSUE: Saudi ruling - apostasy, defamation of religion, freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of religion or belief ISSUE: Closing the Gap in Standards between Freedom of Religion or Belief & Racial Discrimination ISSUE: 7th Session HRC Resolutions and Ad Hoc Experts Study Relating to Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Related Intolerance & Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Relating Freedom of Opinion & Expression to Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Culture as Sacred: Perspective on the Relationship of Culture to Religion or Belief ISSUE: Race & Religion or Belief ISSUE: Theological Dialogue - Human Rights and Freedom of Religion or Belief ISSUE: Alliance of Civilizations - Governments & Youth Dialogue Initiatives ISSUE: Veiled Democracy & Republic of Turkey – Reservations on human rights treaties based on Sharia’ law REPORT: SAUDI ARABIA - Freedom of Religion or Belief & CEDAW Committee Concluding Observations ISSUE: Human Rights Instruments for Dialogue - Arab Charter on Human Rights; Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam; 1981 UN Declaration REPORT: SAUDI ARABIA: CEDAW Report – NGO Reply ISSUE: Somali Women Make Minneapolis Their Business - Human Rights and Empowerment of Women ISSUE: Freedom of Religion or Belief and Freedom of Opinion and Expression ISSUE: Resolution on Freedom of Religion or Belief – mandate extended three years ISSUE: Preserving Cultural, Religious and Non-Religious Identity by International Human Rights Law ISSUE: Indonesia Bans Sects It Deems Blasphemous – a Question of Religious Freedom ISSUE: Presenting a Perspective on the Root Causes of Human Evil and Religion or Belief
