The Church’s Human Rights Office has upheld this basic right all over the world. Where repressive laws or officials create discrimination, oppression and intolerance, the Church forms alliances with human rights groups, publicizes the intolerance, contacts members of parliament known to have strong pro-democracy views and to be defenders of religious freedom and human rights, and conducts campaigns to popularize democracy and human rights.

Over the last decade, the Human Rights Office has organized many conferences internationally to increase inter-religious understanding. A post-September 11 conference at the Church of Scientology Religious Education College in East Grinstead, England, brought together 75 representatives of the world’s major religions. The clergymen, professors and government officials represented two dozen religious traditions from all parts of the world.

The Office played a key role in uniting more than 30 minority religious and spiritual organizations in France into a coalition to protect the rights of their members. The coalition holds public hearings that examine cases of religious discrimination and publishes the results.

See “Веротерпимость Roundtable” for more information.