17th UPR Session – Country Review of Israel
Country Review of Israel Israel Government Statements (Opening, Closing, Country Report) [upload pdf] Media statement http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/Highlights29October2013pm.aspx First Cycle: Date of consideration: Thurs 4 December 2008 – 2.30 p.m. – 5.30 p.m. Second Cycle: Date of consideration: Tues 29 January 2013, 2:30 pm – 6:00 pm; Postponed to Tues 29 October 2013 2:30pm – 6:00pm Draft […]
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