Willy Fautré

Director of Human Rights Without Frontiers Int. (Brussels) Prof. of Germanic languages Director of the Phare Democracy Programme “Religious Minorities in Albania, Bulgaria and Romania” (1995-1996) Chargé de mission at the Belgian Parliament (1989-1990) Chargé de mission at the Cabinet of the Ministry of Education (1984-1985) Researcher, University of Mons Author of the book “Nos Prisonniers du Goulag” (120 p.), ACES, Verviers

Author of numerous articles and contributions to books on freedom of religion:

Non-State Actors and Religious Freedom in Europe, 2006, by James Lance, Editor and Associate Publisher, Kumarian Press, 1294 Blue Hills Avenue Bloomfield, CT 06002, USA

Belgium’s Anti-Sect Policy, in Regulating Religion: Case Studies from Around the Globe, ed. James T. Richardson, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2004

Sects: Do democracies need laws of exception? The Belgian experience, Fides et Libertas 2004, pp 29-40, ed. IRLA

The Sect Issue in the European Francophone Sphere, Facilitating Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Deskbook, Tore Lindholm, W. Cole Durham Jr and Bahia G. Tahzib-Lie (eds.), Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Leiden, 2004, pp 595-618

Religiöse Freiheit, Diskriminierungen und Intoleranz in der Europäischen Union/ Österreich 2003-2004, 32 p, Human Rights Without Frontiers Int., Brussels, 2004

Belgium, Entry in Religions of the World, A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices, J. Gordon Melton and Martin Baumann (eds.), ABC-CLIO Inc., Santa Barbara, 2002

Religious freedom, intolerance and discrimination in the EU: Belgium 2002-2003, 12 p, Human Rights Without Frontiers Int., Brussels, 2003

The Protection of Religious Minorities in Belgium: A Western European Perspective, Protecting the Human Rights of Religious Minorities in Eastern Europe, Peter G. Danchin and Elizabeth A. Cole (eds.), New York: Columbia University Press, 2002

The Sect Issue in France and Belgium, International Perspectives on Freedom and Equality of Religious Belief, Derek H. Davis and Gerhard Besier (eds.), J.M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies: Baylor University, 2002

Religious Persecution in Europe, Religious Persecution as U.S. Policy Issue, eds. Rosalind I.J. Hackett, Mark Silk, Dennis Hoover, Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College, Hartford, 2000

Belgium’s Anti-Sect War, Social Justice Research, Volume 12, Number 4, December 1999, Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers in association with the International Center for Social Justice Research, University of Potsdam, Germany, and the Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, 1999

Missions in China, Japan, South Korea, Nepal, Iraq…

Recent conferences on religious freedom in China: Macau (August 2005), Brussels/ Flemish Parliament (October 2005) Berlin (May 2006), Brussels/ European Parliament and Flemish Parliament (May 2006)