Here are three hypothetical case studies to help you prepare your report on cases in Section III of the Community Report on Freedom of Religion or Belief. Review the studies and the instructions below and complete your answers in the spaces provided on the worksheet.

• A family of three in your community was injured in an automobile accident. The father and daughter were severely injured and unconscious by the time they arrived in the hospital. The mother was seriously injured, but fully conscious. At the hospital the woman announced that her religion forbids her from receiving a blood transfusion and that she does not wish that either her husband or child receive a blood transfusion. The hospital has no reason to doubt the woman’s sincerity. Are there any questions that need to be raised by your article/paragraph in order to propose a solution? If so, explain.

• A private religious school in your community hires a woman to teach mathematics. The teacher belongs to the same religious faith as those who operate the school, although the hiring policies of the school do not explicitly require teachers to be members of the faith. After receiving a very successful job-performance evaluation at the completion of her second year, she announces to school officials that she no longer believes in the religious teaching of her faith and that she has become an atheist the preceding year. She also says that she will not say anything about her personal beliefs to the students, just as she had said nothing to them the preceding year. The school immediately fires the teacher. The teacher claims she has been discriminated against based on religion or belief. Are there any questions that need to be raised by your article/paragraph in order to propose a solution? If so, explain.

• A religion in your community applies to the city government to build a church or mosque in a residential neighborhood. The residents object because the majority of the neighbors are not members of the religion and it would cause noise and parking problems on the street where they live. Are there any questions that need to be raised by your article/paragraph in order to propose a solution? If so, explain.

Instructions: In the spaces below, or on a separate sheet of paper, ask the questions for each of the three examples only for the article/paragraphs for which you volunteered. Review the concept model and method study topics before answering. Bring your answers to the next classroom session for discussion on proposing a solution to each community example using the 1981 U.N. Declaration as a paradigm.

ARTICLE 1: Legal Definition

Paragraph 1.1: Policy and Legal Framework

Paragraph 1.2: Coercion and Freedom to Choose

Paragraph 1.3: Limitations on a Religion or Belief

ARTICLE 2: Classifying Discrimination

Paragraph 2.1: Four Categories

Paragraph 2.2: Two Definitions

ARTICLE 3: Link to Other Rights

Paragraph 3.1: Indivisibility of Human Rights

ARTICLE 4: Effective Measures

Paragraph 4.1: Fields of Civic Activity

Paragraph 4.2: Legislation and Regulations

ARTICLE 5: Parents, Children, State

Paragraph 5.1: Rights of the Three Parties

ARTICLE 6:Specific Freedoms

Paragraph 6.1: Nine Rights

Paragraph 7.1: Accorded and Available in Practice

ARTICLE 8:Existing Protections

Paragraph 8.1: International Bill of Human Rights