FREEDOM
OF RELIGION AND BELIEF: AN ESSENTIAL HUMAN RIGHT
A
Learning Guide by Betty A. Reardon
A Companion Guide to a set of videos on
The
Human Rights to the Freedom of Religion and Belief.
Produced in collaboration by IARF and PDHRE
Human Rights are the banks of the
river in which life can flow freely.
Shulamith Koenig
Imitator of PDHRE video training material
Founding President, PDHRE
Table of Contents
Page
Preface:
Religious Intolerance and Discrimination: A Global Human Rights Problem
..5
Part 1:
Preparing for a Human Rights Learning Process
1.1 Beginning the Dialogue: Greetings from the Project
Designers to the Facilitators
7
1.2 Social Purposes and Educational Goals: Human Rights
Learning for Religious
Freedom
8
For Facilitators Consideration: Inquiring
into Goals and Purpose
......10
1.3 Preparatory Steps for Learning Facilitators:
Planning, Organizing and Stocktaking
.10
1.4 Getting Started: a Learning Process for
Facilitator
...14
For Facilitators Consideration:
Check list on Needs and Resources
....17
1.5 The Fundamentals of the Pedagogy: Dialogue for
Transformative Change
...18
For Facilitators Consideration: The Particp[atory nature of HR
learning
..20
1.6 A HR Framework to Organize and Clarify Problems of
Religious Freedom
21
For Facilitators Consideration: The Participatory Nature of HR Learning .. 24
Part
2: Holism and Transformation: a
Comprehensive and Integral Approach
To Human Rights Learning for Religious
Freedom
2.1 Human Rights: Essential Elements
of Human Dignity; Universal, Indivisible
.26
Interdependent and Unalienable
2.2 The Human Right to Freedom of Conscience, Religion
and Belief is Essential
to Human
Dignity
.28
2.3 The Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of
Intolerance
and
Discrimination Based on Religion and
Belief
.31
2.4 Categories and Types of Violations of Human Rights to
Freedom of Religion,
Belief , Conscience and
Thought
...33
For
Facilitators Consideration, Reflecting on Religion, Belief, Conscience,
And
Thought
...34
Part 3: A Pedagogy
of Engagement for the Achievement of
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Religious Freedom and Interreligious Tolerance and Understanding
3.1 Applying the Pedagogy of Engagement to Incidents of
Religious Intolerance,
Discrimination and
Persecution
.35
3.2 Sequence of General Procedures for a Five-Session
Human Rights
Learning
Process
.39
3.2.1 Opening Session for Introductions, Statements of
Concern and Goals Setting
...40
3.2.2 Procedures for Three Video Based
Session
44
3.2.3 Concluding Session for Planning Action for Social
Change
...50
3.3 Particular Approaches to the Three Videos: Focusing
on Specific
Human Rights
Issue
...54
3.3.1 Video 1, Marias Baptism: Issues of Personal
Religious Choice
....54
3.3.2 Video 2, Sacred Grove: Issues of Social Exclusion
and
Religious
Discrimination
.56
3.3.3 Video 3, Where is Home?: Issues of Interreligious
Violence
and State Responsibility
..57
3.3.4Action-Learning Cycle for the Protection,
Realization and Extension
of Religious
Freedom: Strategies for Change
..58
About PDHRE and IARF
60
Handouts
1. Learning Sequence for Session
1
2. Universal Declaration of Human
Rights
3. Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of
Intolerance and Discrimination
Based on Religion or Belief
4. List of International Human Rights Declarations.
Covenants and Conventions
5. Learning Sequence for Session Based on Marias
Baptism
6. Learning Sequence for Session Based on Sacred
Grove
7. Learning Sequence for Session Based on Where is
Home?
8. Planning Sequence for Action Strategy to Protect and
Extend Human Rights to Freedom of Religion and Belief
9. Form for Statement of Concerns and Recommendations for
Actions for Chang