Declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 representing the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled.

“As representatives of the international community, we stand together in support of the interconnected freedoms of thought, conscience, religion or belief, and expression.”

COUNTRIES WHERE APOSTASY AND BLASPHEMY LAWS are applied today. Click on map to see a larger view.

WITHOUT FREEDOM TO CHANGE RELIGION there is no religious freedom. Apostasy and blasphemy laws in Islam strip the individual from the right to have freedom of thought, religion and conscience, and deprive the ex-Muslim the right to exist in an Islamic state.
Open Letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

SHAHBAZ BHATTI (1968-2011)
Pakistani federal minorities minister, a Christian, was gunned down in the capital city of Islamabad.