A book by an Argentinian prosecutor criticizes the theory that “all” sex workers are coerced to prostitution. PROTEX goes one step further, seeing prostitutes where there are none.
Willy Fautré
Iraq: Beware of Rayan al-Kildani and his “Christian” Babylon Movement
The Vatican and the Chaldean Patriarch stated that the controversial politician, sanctioned by the U.S. for his human rights abuses, cannot speak for the Iraqi Catholic community.
Represión antisectas en Argentina 2. Salum, PROTEX, y la Escuela de Yoga de Buenos Aires
Es hora de que el Departamento de Estado de EE.UU., el USCIRF y otras instituciones internacionales condenen los abusos contra los derechos humanos y la libertad religiosa cometidos por PROTEX.
Anti-Cult Repression in Argentina 2. Salum, PROTEX, and the Buenos Aires Yoga School
It is time for the U.S. Department of State, USCIRF, and other international institutions to condemn human rights and freedom of religion abuses by PROTEX.
Represión antisectas en Argentina 1. PROTEX y Pablo Salum
Una agencia especial contra la trata de personas coopera con un estrafalario activista antisectas que considera “secta” incluso a las monjas Carmelitas Católicas.
Anti-Cult Repression in Argentina 1. PROTEX and Pablo Salum
A special agency against human trafficking cooperates with a bizarre anti-cult activist who regards even the Catholic Carmelite nuns as a “cult.”
France: Protesters Set on Fire a Historical Convent—Only Three Lines in the Media
During the pension reform protests, radical demonstrators in Rennes tried to set on fire the Convent of the Jacobins together with a police station.
Iran: “Christians Are Constantly Watched as Spies”
A conversation with Pastor Dabrina Bet-Tamraz from Iran before she testified at the European Parliament in Brussels.
Russia Uses Rape as a Military Strategy in Ukraine
Both the United Nations and the European Parliament denounce horrific war crimes. The youngest victim is 4, the oldest is 82.
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Moscow Patriarchate: Split or Maneuver?
Is the part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that remained in communion with Moscow really breaking with Kirill—or just pretending to?
Willy Fautré
Willy Fautré, former chargé de mission at the Cabinet of the Belgian Ministry of Education and at the Belgian Parliament. He is the director of Human Rights Without Frontiers, an NGO based in Brussels that he founded in 1988. His organization defends human rights in general but also the rights of persons belonging to historical religions, non-traditional and new religious movements. It is apolitical and independent from any religion.
He has carried out fact-finding missions on human rights and religious freedom in more than 25 countries He is a lecturer in universities in the field of religious freedom and human rights. He has published many articles in university journals about relations between state and religions. He organizes conferences at the European Parliament, including on freedom of religion or belief in China. For years, he has developed religious freedom advocacy in European institutions, at the OSCE and at the UN.