White Paper: The Rise of Faux Rights

White Paper: The Rise of Faux Rights

The United Nations and its various entities are supposed to be committed to the protection and promotion of fundamental, universal human rights. Yet increasingly, individual UN entities promote new conceptions of rights not universally agreed by Member States.

Anti-Conversion Laws

Anti-Conversion Laws

Four countries in South and Southeast Asia—India, Nepal, Myanmar, and Bhutan—have laws that severely regulate religious conversion. Government officials and the police, in line with increasingly nationalist politicians and lawmakers, selectively enforce these laws, effectively banning conversion from the majority religion to a minority religion, in particular Christianity and Islam. This article examines the language of these anti-conversion laws, the political and religious contexts in which they became law, and their effects on religious minorities.

Freedom of Conscience

The right to freedom of conscience protects the right to live in accordance with our deeply held beliefs. Despite being protected by every major human rights treaty, this right is poorly understood and undermined.

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