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Reports and statements submitted to the Human Rights Committee |
2019
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Written statements submitted to the Human Rights Council’s forty-second session (9-27 September) under agenda item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention. Written statements submitted to the Human Rights Council’s forty-first session (24 June – 12 July 2019) under agenda item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention. Written statements submitted to the Human Rights Council’s fortieth session (25 February – 22 March 2019) under Agenda item 4: Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention. WEA statement made during the Universal Periodic Review Iran pre-session on 10 October 2019
- Dabrina Bet Tamraz, Iranian pastor, made a statement on behalf of the World Evangelical Alliance and Christian Solidarity Worldwide during a civil society panel where she presented on the situation of Freedom of Religion or Belief in Iran to an audience of diplomats, U.N. and civil society organizations. After sharing her personal story, Ms. Bet Tamraz shared on the situation of Christians including converts to Christianity, and on the situation of Baha’is. Read the statement here.
Reports Submitted ahead of the Universal Periodic Review 35th session
- Freedom of Religion or Belief in Turkey, submitted jointly with the WEA, WEA member alliance the Association of Protestant Churches in Turkey, and the Baptist World Alliance – 15 July 2019
Download Turkey report; Download annexes
- Report on Sweden addressing (1) targeted hatred and violence against vulnerable groups, including the rising number of Christianophobic attacks, (2) the protection needs of asylum seekers who converted to Christian faith, and (3) the right to conscience objection of nurses who do not want to partake in abortion, submitted jointly by the WEA, the Swedish Evangelical Alliance, the European Evangelical Alliance, and the European Centre for Law and Justice – 16 July 2019
Download Sweden report
- Report on Spain, calling for an end to the discrimination Protestants face in pension treatment in Spain, and appeal for protection of places of worship of all religious communities, following the closure of Evangelical churches in the Catalonia region, submitted jointly by ADF International, the WEA and the Spanish Evangelical Alliance – July 2019.
Download Spain report
Reports Submitted ahead of the Universal Periodic Review 34th session Reports submitted for the Human Rights Committee. |
2018
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- Bhutan: Freedom of Religion and Belief.4 October 2018. Report submitted to the Human Rights Council ahead of the Universal Periodic Review of Bhutan during the UPR 33rd session.
- DR Congo: Human Rights Situation. 4 October 2018. Joint report submitted to the Human Rights Council by the World Evangelical Alliance, Dominicans for Justice and Peace (Order of Preachers), Franciscans International (FI), and Caritas Internationalis, ahead of the Universal Periodic Review of the DRC during the UPR 33rd session. Report in French.
- Sudan: Ongoing Imprisonment and Intimidation of Church Leaders, Confiscation and Destruction of Church Property. 10 September 2018. Joint report submitted to the Human Rights Committee’s 124th session by the World Evangelical Alliance and Middle East Concern.
- Cuba: UPR Recommendations Failed to Challenge Cuba to Improve Respect for Freedom of Religion or Belief
- Algeria: A Campaign of Intimidation Against the Protestant Minority (in French)
- India: The Situation for Religious Minorities Has Worsened
- Sri Lanka: Persistence of Religiously Motivated Violence, Intimidation, and Discrimination
- Nigeria: Government Needs to Do More to Stem the Herdsmen-Farmers Violence
- Nepal: Criminalization of Religious Conversion Amid Increasing Hostility Towards Christians
- Sudan: Ongoing Imprisonment and Intimidation of Church Leaders, Confiscation and Destruction of Church Property
- Viet Nam: Legislative and Governmental Restrictions on Freedom of Religion or Belief
- Viet Nam: Freedom of Religion or Belief, UPR report submitted on 12 July 2018 ahead of Vietnam's review in January 2019
- Algeria: Freedom of Religion or Belief, submitted in July 2018 to the Human Rights Committee of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, ahead of its review of the Algerian government report (English)
- read the report in French
- Malaysia: Freedom of Religion or Belief and the Safety of the Christian Minority
- Central African Republic: Action in Support of National Reconciliation and Respect for Human Rights
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