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Speech by Professor Theo van Boven

Speech by Professor Theo van Boven © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/187103107X218975 Religion and Human Rights 2 (2007) 51– 54 www.brill.nl/rhrs Religion Human Rights Speech by Professor Th eo van Boven Th eo van Boven Emeritus Professor, Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Th e Netherlands Historical Note Having been closely associated with the early efforts in the sixties and seventies of the last century to shape a comprehensive United Nations instrument on freedom of religion or belief and on religious non-discrimination, I am very pleased to be given this opportunity to offer some reflections at this important event marking the 25th anniversary of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intol- erance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief. It should be recalled that the UN General Assembly, in reaction to a world- wide wave of anti-Semitic incidents, requested in 1962 in two parallel resolu- tions the drawing up of a declaration and convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination and a declaration and convention on the elimina- tion of all forms of religious intolerance. It is quite striking for political processes prevailing at the time that the two instruments on racial discrimination http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Religion and Human Rights Brill

Speech by Professor Theo van Boven

van Boven, Theo
Religion and Human Rights , Volume 2 (1-2): 51 – Jan 1, 2007
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/187103107X218975 Religion and Human Rights 2 (2007) 51– 54 www.brill.nl/rhrs Religion Human Rights Speech by Professor Th eo van Boven Th eo van Boven Emeritus Professor, Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Th e Netherlands Historical Note Having been closely associated with the early efforts in the sixties and seventies of the last century to shape a comprehensive United Nations instrument on freedom of religion or belief and on religious non-discrimination, I am very pleased to be given this opportunity to offer some reflections at this important event marking the 25th anniversary of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intol- erance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief. It should be recalled that the UN General Assembly, in reaction to a world- wide wave of anti-Semitic incidents, requested in 1962 in two parallel resolu- tions the drawing up of a declaration and convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination and a declaration and convention on the elimina- tion of all forms of religious intolerance. It is quite striking for political processes prevailing at the time that the two instruments on racial discrimination

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