Seventy years ago this month, India passed a presidential order to ensure fundamental freedoms and rights for Dalit people. However, it also prevented them from exercising their freedom of conscience...
Published on 21 Aug 2020
Do you have the freedom to live and speak in ways that honor your deeply held beliefs? Is freedom of conscience a license to do whatever one wants? Does this...
Published on 03 Mar 2020
ADF International Legal Counsel, Laurence Wilkinson says the case of a student midwife suspended from her university course over her pro-life views marks a shocking escalation in the continuing inability...
Published on 23 Jan 2020
This September, I am sending my son from the Arizona desert to the rolling green hills and snowcapped mountains of the Pacific Northwest in Langley, British Columbia, to attend...
Published on 21 Jun 2018
There are so many problems with hate speech laws – the history of where they’ve come from, their misuse and abuse across Europe, their future trajectory – but I want...
Published on 18 Nov 2016
On IN THE DOCK: ADF International legal council Laurence Wilkinson comments on the cases of Swedish midwives Linda Steen and Ellinor Grimmark. Both were denied employment because they followed their...
Published on 15 Sep 2016
Members of the European Parliament have resolutely called for the strengthening of freedom of conscience in the EU and in the world. In a declaration published on Thursday 21 April...
Published on 10 May 2016
There is a lot of public discussion on the “freedom of conscience” going on in Europe these days. And rightly so. We cannot people to be punished for making decisions...
Published on 13 Nov 2015Sweden, a nation often associated with human rights protection, has in recent years become one of the globe’s most aggressive violators of rights of conscience for medical personnel who wish...
Published on 04 Jun 2014
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