Founded in 1946 by Dr. Jean NUSSBAUM assisted by Mrs. Eleanor ROOSEVELT, the first President of Honorary Committee of the AIDLR.
A Non-governmental organization with participatory status to the United Nations (UN), ECOSOC Committee in New York and Geneva, in the Council of Europe (CoE) in Strasbourg and to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Warsaw.

Liviu Olteanu, Secretary General of the AIDLR, talking together with worldwide religious leaders, scholars and civil society organizations on United Nations plan of action and other exchanges on Freedom of Religion or Belief (FRoB)

The following statement was issued by the Secretary General of the AIDLR, Dr Liviu Olteanu, after the conversation he had together with religious leaders, scholars and civil cociety international NGOs at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 14 July 2017 in the context of the Launch by the UN Secretary-General, ANTONIO GUTERRES’, Plan […]

AIDLR Secretary General has talked at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York with Dr. Agnes CALLAMARD, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, based at the OHCHR, Geneva

The following statement was issued by the AIDLR Secretary General regarding the conversation between Dr. Liviu Olteanu and Dr. Agnes CALLAMARD, the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. The representatives of the two organizations discussed the tools they can use together to prevent the incitement to […]

Conversation of Dr. Liviu Olteanu with H.E. Ambassador Abdallah Yahya Al-Mouallimi, Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to United Nations in New York and with Sheikh Salih bin Humaid, Imam of the Grand Mosque of Mecca.

The following statement was issued by the AIDLR Secretary General after the meeting at the United Nations Headquarters in New York between Dr. Liviu Olteanu and H.E. AMBASSADOR ABDALLAH AL MOUALLIMI and SHEIKH SALIH BIN HUMAID, Imam of the Grand Mosque of Mecca, at the Launch by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio GUTERRES’ ‘Plan […]

Ambassador Ms. Ammo AZIZA BAROUD, Ambasador of Chad to the benelux contries, the United Kingdom, Permanente Representative of the European Union and the ACP group of States, talked with the Secretary General of the AIDLR, Dr. Liviu Olteanu

AMBASSADOR AMMO AZIZA BAROUD had a conversation as a follow up to the Global Summit on Religion, Peace and Security co-organized by the AIDLR and OGPRtP in November 2016 at the United Nations in Geneva. Following the participation of Ms. Aziza Baroud with a keynote address at that Global Summit on Religion, Peace and Security as […]

Liviu Olteanu, the AIDLR Secretary General, talked at the United Nations HQ with Faisal Bin Abdulrahman Bin Muaammar , Secretary General KAICIID Dialogue Centre, and with Ambassador Alvaro Albacete, Deputy Secretary-General, on the UN Plan of Action and bilateral exchanges on education for religious leaders, diplomats and politicians on Freedom of Religion or Belief.

The following statement was issued by the Secretary General of the AIDLR, after the conversation in New York at the United Nations Headquarters between Dr Liviu Olteanu and H.E. FAISAL BIN MUAAMMAR and H.E. AMBASSADOR ALVARO ALBACETE, in the context of the launch by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio GUTERRES of the ‘Plan […]

The Honorable Antonio GUTERRES, United Nations Secretary-General and Dr. Liviu Olteanu, AIDLR Secretary General, exchanged views at the UN Headquarters on the Plan of Action for religious leaders and actors to prevent incitement to violence that could lead to atrocity crimes; in addition they discussed the AIDLR’s journal «Ambassadors for Liberty, Hope and Peace» and book «Agents and Ambassadors for Peace»

Dr. Liviu Olteanu, Secretary General of the AIDLR was invited by H.E. ADAMA DIENG, United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide, to take part in the launch by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, ANTONIO GUTERRES, on 14 July 2017, of the Plan of Action for Religious Leaders […]

Keynote address introduced at the UN Headquarters in New York by Dr. Liviu Olteanu, Secretary General of the AIDLR on «Modernity and preventing incitement to violence which begins by acknowledging the rights, dignity and perspectives of everyone and treating others as one would like to be treated»

In his Keynote Address Dr. Liviu Olteanu congratulated Adama Dieng for his vision, energy and efforts as UN Under-Secretary-General on the Fez Plan of Action, and continued by saying: In the context of the world today what we need is to learn to know and to accept the other’s differences, culture and traditions, and to […]

H.E. Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy and President of European Commission, and Professor Hans Schilling, talked and exchanged views with Dr. Liviu Olteanu at European Academy of Religion hosted in Bologna in June 18-22, 2017, regarding «Religion and Politics, Refugees and future of Europe»

The aim of the European Academy of Religion was to network individual researchers and – according with “Fescire” and “juraforum.de” from 14 of June – it is a public space of confrontation and dialogue about the multiple dimensions of religious experience involving science societies where philosophers, jurists, philologists, historians can exchange ideas and present the […]

Keynote address introduced by Dr. Liviu Olteanu at the “OSCE /ODIHR (OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)) meetings on SUPPLEMENTARY HUMAN DIMENSION” hosted in Vienna in June 2017 regarding three proposals addressed to the OSCE Member States on combating anti-Semitism, intolerance and discrimination against Christians, Muslims and members of other religions and an exchange on Religious Liberty between the AIDLR’s Secretary General and Ms. Stacy Bernard Davis from the US Department of State

The following statement was issued by Dr Liviu Olteanu at the OSCE/ODIHR Supplementary Human Dimension meetings regarding the topic debated by the OSCE on Freedom of Religion or Belief: Issues, Opportunities and the Specific Challenges of Combating anti-Semitism and intolerance and discrimination against Christians, Muslims and members of other religions. Dr. Olteanu believes -as Berger […]