By Juan Sanchez Gil – 5 July 2026
Speakers urged governments and employers to protect freedom of religion or belief in hiring, workplace rules and public procurement.
A side event at the United Nations in Geneva placed employment at the centre of the freedom of religion or belief debate. Speakers from the World Evangelical Alliance, the International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief, Fundación Mejora, the Church of Scientology and civil society examined how religious identity can affect access to work, dress codes, public-sector neutrality, reasonable accommodation and public procurement. The discussion moved from France, Belgium, Switzerland and Québec to Spain and Germany, where “faith-breaker clauses” targeting Scientology were presented as a warning about how state policies can travel from public contracts into the lives of individual workers.
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