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Freedom of Conscience and Religion

2022
Abstract This chapter studies Article 12 of the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR), which protects the freedom of conscience and of religion. The freedom of conscience and of religion is considered as one of the foundations of a democratic society and therefore occupies a key position in the international human rights law norms ...
Ludovic Hennebel, Hélène Tigroudja
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Freedom of Conscience

Monthly Review, 1958
On May 19, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Harry Sacher v. United States reversing Mr. Sacher's conviction by a lower court of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer certain questions put to him by the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security.
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FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AS RELIGIOUS AND MORAL FREEDOM

Journal of Law and Religion, 2013
AbstractIn another essay being published contemporaneously with this one, I have explained that as the concept “human right” is understood both in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in all the various international human rights treaties that have followed in the Universal Declaration's wake, a right is a human right if the rationale for ...
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Conscience and Freedom of Conscience

2013
The word “conscience” derives from the Latin word “conscientia.” In its linguistic origins, the term “conscience” signified shared (con) knowledge (science).1 According to the Longman Contemporary English Dictionary, the conscience is “the part of your mind that tells you whether what you are doing is morally right or wrong.”2 Eide and Mubanya-Chipoya,
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Rastafarianism and Freedom of Conscience

Journal of African Law, 1995
In the case of In Re: Chikweche (Supreme Court of Zimbabwe, 1995, unreported), the applicant, a devout follower of the Rastafari movement, was refused registration as a legal practitioner by a High Court judge. The precise reasons for the refusal were not clear but seemingly the applicant was not considered a “fit and proper person” as required by ...
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The Right to Freedom of Conscience

2020
Conscience as a legal concept appeared for the first time in the treaties of Westphalia of 1648, thus terminating the 30 Year’s war in central Europe. In order to avoid further religious wars, the contracting parties accepted the freedom of their subjects to exercise their religion according to their own free conscience (“conscientia libera”).
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Catholicism, Freedom of Conscience, and Democracy

Études maritainiennes / Maritain Studies, 2009
In this paper I focus on one of the fundamental democratic freedoms – freedom of conscience – and see to what extent Catholicism is compatible or consistent with it and, by extension, with democracy in civil or political institutions. I draw primarily on recent ecclesial statements on the issue, but also on the philosophical views of Jacques Maritain ...
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Religious freedom and freedom of conscience

2011
The focus of this intervention about " religious freedom " and " freedom of conscience " is the way followed by the catholic and the sunni traditions to answer to a modern challenge : is individual liberty an upper principle than common truth ? Both included the higher number of believers in one God, and through the public authorities both have in the ...
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[Physician and freedom of conscience].

Casopis lekaru ceskych, 2012
In the arena of bioethics we can find the ideas trying to deny the right to freedom of conscience to physicians. This is an attack upon morality itself. It is therefore urgent to outline the basic knowledge dealing with conscience and to be aware of the fact that violation of conscience leads to breakdown of conscience.
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Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and Religion

1995
Abstract The struggle for religious liberty in the international arena can be traced back to the battles of the sixteenth century, and possibly even to the Roman Empire. However it was not until the twentieth century that religious liberty finally attained positive recognition in international human rights instruments. Today, in addition
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