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.

FADIME ŞAHINDAL (1975-2002) was a Kurdish immigrant in Sweden who was murdered by her father in an honor killing.

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

IDENTITY CRISIS - Religious Registration in the Middle East - Jonathan Andrews reveals ways that religious registration not only brings difficulties of inequality, racism and intolerance to Christians and to Muslims who choose to follow Christ, but also how it feeds prejudices within Islam.

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