International Free Speech and Human Rights Conference

Brussels, 9 July 2012 

In order to further promote the effort to protect our civil liberties and reward pioneering efforts in the field, ICLA has created the annual “Defender of  Freedom Award.”

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That Brussels Declaration describes and launches a systematic 'Brussels Process,' designed to stimulate public debate on the conflict between sharia and liberty; to provide a counterweight to the efforts of the OIC to impose blasphemy laws in Europe and other countries; to re-establish standards of ...

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.........the OIC, or Organization of Islamic Cooperation, seeks to institute a global blasphemy law that would ban freedom of expression under Sharia Law worldwide..."."
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