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M. Respinti, Presentation at UPF-Italy Peace Forum
What is my faith, if it is not first of all respect, and, I would say, kneeling before the divine spark that is in the human.
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Intervention of Hon. Ján Figeľ at the side-event of the Human Rights Council
Intervention of Hon. Ján Figeľ, former European Commission special envoy for the Promotion of Freedom of Religion, Slovakia, at the side-event of the Human Rights Council on 31 January, 2023.
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Intervention of Mr. Willy Fautré at the side-event of the Human Rights Council
Intervention of Mr. Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, Belgium, at the side-event of the Human Rights Council on 31 January, 2023.
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Intervention of Dr. Katsumi Otsuka at the side-event of the Human Rights Council
Intervention of Dr. Katsumi Otsuka, Chair, UPF for Europe and the Middle East, at the side-event of the Human Rights Council on 31 January, 2023.
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Intervention of Dr. Aaron Rhodes at the side-event of the Human Rights Council
Intervention of Dr. Aaron Rhodes, former executive director of the International Helsinki Federation, Germany, at the side-event of the Human Rights Council on 31 January, 2023.
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Three Statements to the UN Human Rights Committee
I will speak about the intolerance, discrimination and persecution against members of the Unification Church in Japan.
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Intervention of Dr. Willy Fautré in the EUME ILC July-August 2022: London Session 5
Intervention of Dr. Willy Fautré, director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, Belgium, in the EUME ILC July-August 2022: London Session 5.
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Intervention of Hon. Ján Figeľ in the EUME ILC July-August 2022: London Session 4
Intervention of Hon. Ján Figeľ, former European Commission special envoy for the Promotion of Freedom of Religion, Slovakia, in the EUME ILC July-August 2022: London Session 4.
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H.E. Felipe González: Address to World Summit 2020
We accept more and more the biodiversity of nature that we can and should share. Why is it so difficult for us to accept the biodiversity of cultures and the sense of belonging of human beings as a shared richness that we should know, from which we should learn and with which we should live in harmony?
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Freedom of Faith a ‘Litmus Test’ for All Human Rights
Intervention of Dr. Jan Figel, the European Union special envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or belief outside the EU, at the international leadership conference in Vienna, Austria.
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Freedom of religion and its role in the promotion of peace
Intervention of Dr. Raffaela Di Marzio, Founder and Director, LIREC (Center for Studies on Freedom of Religion, Belief and Conscience), Italy, at the international leadership conference in Vienna, Austria.
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Human Rights Day: Challenges and Opportunities of Our Time
The following is based on a presentation by Dr. Aaron Rhodes at the Seminar, “Challenges and Opportunities of Our Time,” held in the Parliament of the Czech Republic on 25 November 2016, hosted by MP Nina Nováková under the co-sponsorship of UPF.
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The Rising Need for Societal Development
The global agendas for the 21st century are marked by an enhanced focus on the human being, on the citizen and on societies in addition to the traditional addressing of issues related to governments and states. Peace is not any more the achievement of governmental armament, defended borders and related policies but, as the title of our meeting indicates, the result of value structures of societal cultures carried by the human being and by societies.
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Sects or Religions? A Human Rights Perspective
Is there a distinction to be made between “cults” or “sects” and religions? Should religious freedom be only accessible to so-called historical religions and their members? Should other minority religious or spiritual movements called “sects” or “cults” be denied the enjoyment of the provisions of international declarations and covenants guaranteeing freedom of religion or belief?
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The European Union, European Citizens and Human Rights
The European Union is often criticized by people like me for a wide range of alleged policy and administrative failures regarding human rights. Today, however, I would like to use this opportunity to attest to the importance of Europe’s role in promoting and protecting human rights, which I can do on the basis of my own experience and reflection.
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What More can Europe do to Improve Human Rights?
Distinguished guests, Ambassadors for Peace, Ladies & Gentlemen! As Chair of Universal Peace Federation in Europe, it is truly an honour and a privilege to be able to extend a warm welcome to you all to the European Economic and Social Committee here in Brussels and to our European Leadership Conference on the theme “What more can Europe do to improve Human Rights?”
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Civil Society, Not Laws That Restrict Freedoms, Should Promote Tolerance
Remarks by Dr. Aaron Rhodes, Conference on Interreligious Cooperation and The Prevention of Incitement to National, Racial and Religious Hatred, United Nations Office Geneva • Room XXIV (24) • 14:00 - 16:30, Geneva, 25 March 2011.
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The Function and Dysfunction of Religion in our Secular State
Statement by Prof. em. Dr. Christian Brünner, University of Graz, Institute for Austrian, European and Comparative Public Law, Political Sciences and Public Administration at the European Leadership Conference, Geneva, 24.-26.3.2011.