Egypt (48th Session)

This report addresses the situation of religious minorities in Egypt, especially Coptic Christians, particularly the impact of laws prohibiting blasphemy and other religious expression on their enjoyment of freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression. Furthermore, the report highlights the ongoing barriers to the registration and maintenance of churches, as well as attacks against Christians across the country, including incidents of mob violence targeting places of worship, extremist violence, and the abduction, forced marriage, and forced religious conversion of women and girls.

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Parental Rights Booklet

As parents, you have natural rights (and also duties) to raise your children. These are pre-political and pre-exist all governments, states and international organisations

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Parental Rights White Paper

International human rights law recognises parents as their children’s primary caretakers and authorities. Yet, at a time of state-sanctioned ideologies, the natural rights of parents are being denied. The state is increasingly seen as the child’s primary caretaker, which violates the international human rights of parents. Parents’ ability to nourish their children’s spiritual, psychological and physical integrity is threatened.

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Navigate Destructive Gender Ideology in Schools

Some government officials are using our education system as a platform to introduce lies to children, including lies about the fundamental nature of their
biology. This push to enforce radical gender ideology is harming children, destroying families, and tearing away at the very truth and dignity of human nature, gender differences, marriage, and the family.

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Albania (47th Session)

This report highlights the urgent need for the government of Albania to intensify its efforts to eradicate the practice of prenatal sex selection within its territory. It points out that the imbalance in the sex ratio at birth is deeply ingrained in the country’s prevalent culture of son preference, and offers recommendations aimed at addressing the root causes behind the occurrence of this harmful practice.

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Costa Rica (47th Session)

This report illustrates the state of homeschooling in Costa Rica, highlighting that relevant restrictions violate its obligations to respect freedom of education and parental rights under international human rights law.

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Ethiopia (47th Session)

This report contends that Ethiopia must repeal its blasphemy laws in order to safeguard the full enjoyment of the human rights to freedom of religion and expression. It also addresses the urgent need to prevent and end all forms of religiously motivated persecution and violence. This includes preventing and responding to attacks directed against followers of Orthodox Christianity, Protestantism, Islam, and indigenous religions.

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Norway (47th Session)

This report acknowledges the positive trend of fewer children being placed in alternative care, which prevents their separation from families, and commends the legislative progress made in this regard. Nevertheless, it expresses serious concern over Norway’s ongoing practice of unjustifiably separating children from their parents, a process that hinders efforts towards family reunification and disproportionately impacts migrant families.

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