International Center for Law and Religion Studies | Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Conscience, and Right of Association: International and Russian Experience in Implementation

Program

This conference, held in Ekaterinburg, Russia on April 3-6, 2008, commemorated the 60th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Professor W. Cole Durham, Jr., gave a presentation entitled Freedom of Religion or Belief: Practical Implementation of International Norms. Professor John Young, ICLRS fellow and Regional Advisor for Central and Eastern Europe, presented on the topic of Rapture or Rupture? Religion and Civil Society.

Hosts

Expert Council of the Human Rights Omudsman
in the Russian Federation
Human Rights Ombudsman of the Sverdlovsk Region
“Znanie” Society of Russia

Sponsors

International Center for Law and Religion Studies
Eurasia Department of the International Association of Religion Freedom
Center for the Study of Religion, Russian State Humanities University
Association of Researchers of Religion

Photo by Alex Kofman, copyright Creative Commons. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekaterinburg