IARF Training Workshop on UN Human Rights Mechanisms

 26-27 May 2012  Geneva, Switzerland In response to specific requests during the last 19th Session of the Human Rights Council in March 2012, from grassroots NGO representatives and human rights defenders, IARF in collaboration with the David M. Kennedy Centre for International Studies is organizing an international training workshop on the UN Human Rights Mechanisms – focus on the […]

Documentary: Prisms of Light

  From the film’s website: Are people spiritual because they need a crutch, or do they sense something others don’t? A film director with a burning question goes to India, where almost two million Westerners travel as spiritual tourists each year. Are they running away from something, or towards something? A Swedish Tai Chi teacher […]

Latest report of the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief

 25 March 2012 The 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council has just ended.  You can read here a statement made by Heiner Bielefeldt, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, during the interactive dialogue, and also download his latest (2012) Report presented to the Council.    

RFYN statement to UN’s International Year of Youth

“The role of youth in the progress of Afghanistan” Work by Afghan members of our youth network (‘RFYN’)  submitted for:    High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on Youth @ UN Headquarters, New York25-26 July 2011 RFYN contribution to UN High-Level Meeting (PDF, 3 pages) Illustrated article “The role of youth in the progress of Afghanistan” […]

Rajahmundry 2004

  Under the auspices of SACC and Rajahmundry Interfaith Project, a Two-day Young Adult Programme was organised at Rajahmundry on 26th and 27th June 2004. Twenty-three young adults from different local colleges and eight young adults from Vizag participated. Among them were 15 male and 16 female participants – 22 Hindu, 4 Christian, 3 Jain and 2 Muslim. Rev. […]

Palayamkottai, Tirunelveli 2004

                23 October 2004 Brief Report on RFYN Palayamkottai, Thirunelveli (PDF) @Angelo Mat. Higher Secondary School, Palayamkottai, Tirunelveli

25 years of thought on Freedom of Religion or Belief

On the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations’ Freedom of Religion or Belief mandate… Publication of a key reference e-book compiling observations & recommendations by the four independent experts (Special Rapporteurs) who have served on the mandate since 1986.  

RFYN Empowerment Training

Davao, Philippines  26 Dec 2003 – 3 Jan 2004 Thirty young people from all over the Philippines attended the IARF’s RFYN empowerment training at Waterfront Hotel in Davao City, Mindanao – ‘IPs’ (indigenous people), Christians, Moslems and Unitarians.  Oxford-based Ramola Sundram, the RFYN International Co-ordinator, came to Davao, as did Japan-based Morse Flores, a Filipino ‘IP’ (indigenous […]

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Human Rights Day 2011, Hindupur

Report on Human Rights Day 2011 in Hindupur Organised by the IARF-RFYN young adults’ network in Hindupur, Andhra Pradesh, India See photos here (opens new tab in Flickr)