THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. The Declaration represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled.

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

THEO VAN GOGH was a Dutch film director, film producer, columnist, author and actor. He worked with the Somali-born writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali to produce the film Submission, which criticized the treatment of women in Islam and aroused controversy among Muslims.

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

Christians are the world’s most widely persecuted religious group, according to studies by the Pew Research Center, Newsweek,and the Economist, among others.