13th Universal Periodic Review
In 2012, on the basis of our human rights education work in India, we submitted to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, our first contribution to this new mechanism of the UN (established 2006) for the monitoring of states’ human rights records. IARF Joint UPR Submission 2012 – India […]
XIX Session of the Human Rights Council
29 February to 23 March 2012 IARF has two involvements in this 2012 session: 1 Written & Oral Statements Written Statements to the Human Rights Council (HRC) exist as a means for NGOs to directly lobby the HRC’s member states. The Statements are intended to highlight specific thematic issues or country […]
Bahrain: government violations during Ashura season 2013
Press Conference on Religious Freedom Violations during Ashura (November 2013) The Department for Religious Freedom in the Bahrain Human Rights Observatory has expressed its strong condemnation of the escalation of the pace of systematic violations on religious freedom in Bahrain during Ashura (November 2013), and the increasing number of official violations carried out by government […]
HRET-RFYN KLE Law College, Chikodi, Belgaum
Human Rights Education workshop@KLE Law College, Chikodi, Belgaum District, Karnataka State, India22-23, October 2013 Facilitators: Mr. K. Ramachandran & Mr. Gautham Bharathi K. Report (PDF 5 pages, illustrated) Photos
First Pakistan HRE trainings
Human Rights Education training@Sargodha, Pakistan 27 – 28 September 2013 Participants: Muslim, Christian and Baha’i youth Photos (both days) ; 28th Human Rights Education training@Sādiqābād, Punjab, Pakistan 9 – 10 November 2013 Participants: Muslim and Christian Photos – 9th ; 10th On both occasions, the message was “Respect the Human, and Religion”. IARF’s India-produced training docu-dramas were screened, […]
HRE-RFYN Christuraja TTC
Human Rights Education training@Christuraja Teacher Training College, Tirunelveli, Tamilnadu2–4 October 2013 Organiser: Rev. Bro. M.D. SebastianFacilitator: Bro. Albert Xaviour Report (PDF 6 pages illustrated)
Bangladesh attacks on Hindus condemned
“Dear Peace Loving People of the World, The Executive Communities of International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF), United Religions Initiative (URI) and Religions for Peace (RfP) Bangladesh in an emergency joint meeting condemned with the strongest possible language against the atrocities done towards the Hindu communities in the recent past particularly, on the 2nd November, 2013 […]
IARF Peace Commission 2013 conference publication
Print publication of papers given at the summer 2013 conference of our Peace Commission: Religious Freedom & Responsibility For Planet and People
Bahrain Interfaith Centre, our newest associate
The IARF has recently (April 2013) welcomed the Bahrain Interfaith Centre as an associate member group. Contacts with this group have been established in 2012 through our representative with the UN ECOSOC in Geneva, Mr. Morse Flores. IARF welcomes groups that are multi-faith and that are working non-violently and peacefully to promote religious freedom. Groups […]
RFYN new News Bulletin
In August, IARF’s India-based young adult network RFYN launched a new headquarters outside Bangalore. See the reports here. The first edition of their newsletter was released as a follow-up: RFYN July-Sep 2014 News Bulletin (PDF 38 pages, illustrated)