GENEVA (10 March 2012) – Violence committed in the name of religion does not simply ‘erupt’, but is typically caused by contemporary factors and actors that provide the fertile ground for the seeds of hatred, United Nations human rights expert Heiner Bielefeldt said today during the presentation of his latest report* to the UN Human Rights Council. “That kind of violence typically originates from geographic, historical, political, social, economic circumstances as well as communal, local, regional and international ones,” Mr. Bielefeldt noted.
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 10 March 2015. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
