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 | Amnesty International fights on behalf of prisoners of conscience worldwide. They organize letter-writing campaigns to free people who have been unjustly incarcerated. They oppose the death penalty as "the ultimate cruel, in human and degrading punishment." See: http://www.amnesty.org/ | ||||||||||
| The Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs (BJC) has completed 60 years of advocating religious liberty in the US. They are "committed to the twin concepts of Free Exercise and No Establishment found in the First Amendment." See: http://www.bjcpa.org/ | ||||||||||
| The Center for Religious Freedom is a division of Freedom House. It "defends against religious persecution of all groups throughout the world. It insists that U.S. foreign policy defend Christians and Jews, Muslim dissidents and minorities, and other religious minorities in countries such as Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Iran and Sudan." See: http://freedomhouse.org/ | ||||||||||
| Christian persecution: US:
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| Christian persecution: Worldwide: There are a number of religious freedom groups which concerned with
persecutions of Christians worldwide:
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| Christian Solidarity International is a Christian civil rights organization at: http://www.csi-int.ch/ | ||||||||||
| The Christian Science Committee on Publication maintains a list of Committees on Publication by country and state. See: http://www.tfccs.com/worldwidedirectory/ | ||||||||||
| The European Human Rights Centre promotes cooperation in Europe between organization and government officials, and by collaborating with similar associations throughout the world. They have 124 institutional members and 5,100 individual members. See: http://www.ehrcweb.org/ | ||||||||||
| The First Amendment Center of Vanderbuilt University has a fascinating WWW site promoting religious and other freedoms. See: http://www.fac.org | ||||||||||
| Forum18 in Oslo, Norway promote's "the implementation of Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and concentrates on serious and obvious breaches of religious freedom, and particularly on situations where the lives and welfare of individual people or groups are being threatened and where the right to gather around one's faith is being hindered." See: http://www.forum18.org/ | ||||||||||
| Human Rights Watch monitors human rights worldwide. Their site is at http://www.hrw.org/ | ||||||||||
| The Institute for First Amendment Studies has a web site and and periodical: "Freedom Writer" which criticizes anti-choice and anti-freedom activities of some religious groups. See: http://www.naawpflch.org/index/studies.html | ||||||||||
| International Coalition for Religious Freedom "is a non-profit, non-sectarian, educational organization dedicated to defending the religious freedom of all, regardless of creed, gender, or ethnic origin. ICRF acknowledges with gratitude that, at the current time, it receives the bulk of its funding from institutions and individuals related to the Unification Church community." See: http://www.religiousfreedom.com/ | ||||||||||
| Keston Institute "monitors freedom of religion and researches religious affairs in communist and post-communist countries." See: http://www.keston.org/ | ||||||||||
| Religious Freedom Watch works to defend religious freedom for all. They are particularly concerned about anti-religious extremists. See: http://www.religiousfreedomwatch.org/ | ||||||||||
| Sectes, Un autre regard ("Cults, another look") is a French web site that promotes religious freedom for new religious and spiritual movements. See: http://www.sectes-infos.net AltaVista provides a translation service that can translate French web sites into English. See: http://world.altavista.com/ | ||||||||||
| Unesco's Management of Social Transformations Program (MOST) web site contains a section on religious rights and freedoms. See: http://www.unesco.org/most/rr1.htm | ||||||||||
| U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom monitors religious freedom outside the USA. They advise the executive and legislative branches of government on how best to promote it. See: http://www.uscirf.gov/ | ||||||||||
| U.S. religious liberties organizations: Legal organizations
which fight court cases promoting freedom for all religions include:
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Latest update: 2006-NOV-26
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