MEPs, the EU’s new religious freedom envoy and UN experts confronted persecution, Christian vulnerability, double standards and the question of whether Europe is prepared to turn principles into political action.
A European Parliament hearing on September 3 brought an unusually direct question to the centre of EU foreign policy: if freedom of religion or belief is a universal human right, what is Europe prepared to do when governments, armed groups or social systems deny it?
The public hearing of the Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights, DROI, brought together Mairead McGuinness, the recently appointed EU Special Envoy for the promotion of freedom of religion or belief outside the European Union; Nicolas Levrat, UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues; and François Foret, a specialist in religion and European politics at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
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