THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. The Declaration represents the first global expression of rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled.

WITHOUT FREEDOM TO CHANGE RELIGION there is no religious freedom. Apostasy and blasphemy laws in Islam strip the individual from the right to have freedom of thought, religion and conscience, and deprive the ex-Muslim the right to exist in an Islamic state.
Open Letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

"Let there be no Compulsion in Religion" (Sura 2:256) by Christine Schirrmacher - Apostasy from Islam as Judged by Contemporary Islamic Theologians: Discourses on Apostasy, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights

COUNTRIES WHERE APOSTASY AND BLASPHEMY LAWS are applied today. Click on map to see a larger view.

SHAHBAZ BHATTI (1968-2011), Pakistan's federal minorities minister, a Christian, was gunned down in the capital city of Islamabad on 2 March 2011. This was the second killing of a senior government official who had spoken out against the nation's stringent blasphemy laws. Bhatti predicted that he would be a Taliban target after speaking out.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S silence about Islamic Apostasy and Blasphemy laws is shameful.
~ In 12 Islamic states death sentence and no condemnation.
~ In 12 more it is criminalised and no objurgation.
~ 1.3 billion without freedom to leave Islam and Amnesty International is a spectator.

HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES —many from the war-torn countries of Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan—are streaming across Europe in hopes of building a new life. The conditions they face are difficult and put them at great risk. Learn how you can help provide physical relief and offer the hope of the Gospel to these displaced families through organizations like  Samaritan’s Purse…