The Association International pour la Défense de la Liberté Religieuse (AIDLR), International Association for the Defense of Religious Liberty in English (IADRL), is a Non-Governmental Organization dedicated to promoting and defending freedom of conscience, worship, and religion around the world. Founded in 1946 by Dr. Jean NUSSBAUM assisted by Mrs. Eleanor ROOSEVELT, the first President of the Honorary Committee of the AIDLR.
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Toledo, Spain – From March 17 to 19, the International Association for the Defense of Religious Liberty (AIDLR) hosted a high-level consultative meeting in Toledo […]
We are EPRID – the European Platform against Religious Intolerance and Discrimination. EPRID is a network of civil society organisations and religious bodies engaging with the European institutions in Brussels […]
We are EPRID – the European Platform against Religious Intolerance and Discrimination. EPRID is a network of civil society organisations and religious bodies engaging with the European institutions in Brussels […]
The #FaithforRights Peer Learning Experience program gathered 25 participants at the Ius Gentium Center for Human Rights, at the University of Coimbra. This initiative, based on the toolkit created by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, aims to explore the intersection of faith and human rights…
An AIDLR National Directors’ Meeting took place at the AIDLR office in Brussels (Belgium) from 18-21 March, marking the first time that AIDLR National Directors have met in the Belgian capital. For three days they had the opportunity to hear from their colleagues about the challenges each country is facing and the projects they are working on. This meeting in
To the leaders of European political groups and candidates in the 2024 European Parliament elections On behalf of the European Platform Against Religious Intolerance and Discrimination (EPRID) Re: Advancement of Freedom of Religion or Belief in the European Union and Internationally As the upcoming European Parliament elections draw near, we, members of the European Platform against Religious Intolerance and Discrimination
The relationship between Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion is a current, pertinent, sometimes worrying, but inexhaustible topic. How can these two fundamental rights coexist and maintain the delicate balance between protecting individual rights and respecting religious diversity? It was in an attempt to reflect on these questions that the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Prof. Augusto Santos
The International Association for the Defense of Religious Liberty (AIDLR) is indelibly and honorably connected to the date, circumstances, context, and spirit of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the late 1940s. During those years, the founder of AIDLR, Jean Nussbaum, met the First Lady of the United States, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Both expressed a shared
Paulo Macedo, Secretary General of the International Association for the Defense of Religious Liberty; Dr. Ibrahim Salama, Chief of the Human Rights Treaties Branch at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; and Professor Silvio Ferrari, Emeritus Professor of Law and Religion participated in the webinar titled “Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75: Advancing Freedom
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