NEW YORK / GENEVA (23 October 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt, on Thursday called on all Governments represented at the UN General Assembly “to respect religious practices by children and their families and support families in fulfilling their role in providing an enabling environment for the realisation of the rights of the child.” “Every individual child is a rights holder in his or her own capacity as recognised in Article 14 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child,”…
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Source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Originally published 23 October 2015. This page reproduces only a short excerpt; the complete text remains on the official source website.
