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The lack of places of worship and the regular dismantling of religious informal meetings frustrates the rights of religious minorities to manifest a religion or belief. Additionally, the threat of raids, arrests, detention and imprisonment for those identified as belonging to certain religious minorities disincentivizes community and public manifestation. Recommendation Status: This recommendation has NOT been implemented. 3

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Mechanism: Special Rapporteur - Freedom of Religion or Belief

Date: Feb 1, 2010

Paragraph number: 146

Full Recommendation: Furthermore, the Special Rapporteur would like to refer to General Assembly resolution 63/181, in which the Assembly urges States to step up their efforts to protect and promote freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief, and to this end, to exert the utmost efforts, in accordance with their national legislation and in conformity with international human rights law, to ensure that religious places, sites, shrines and symbols are fully respected and protected and to take additional measures in cases where they are vulnerable to desecration and destruction. As mentioned, inter alia, in paragraph 4 of the Human Rights Committee's general comment no. 22, places of worship are an essential element of the manifestation of the right to freedom of religion or belief to the extent that the great majority of religious communities or communities of belief need the existence of a place of worship where their members can manifest their faith. Moreover, unlike other forms of violations of the right to freedom of religion or belief, attacks or other forms of restriction on places of worship or other religious sites and shrines in many cases violate the right not only of a single individual, but the rights of a group of individuals forming the community that is attached to the place in question

Recommendation Status: Not Implemented

Themes

Freedom from discrimination
Freedom of religion and belief

Demographics

Religious, Ethnic and Linguistic Minorities

Source Reference Info: A/HRC/13/40/Add.1

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