The UN’s latest discussions on freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) once again revealed two troubling trends: Hungary’s continued refusal to address serious religious discrimination, and the misuse of the FoRB space by multiple states to wage geopolitical battles, rather than advocate for the protection of religious minorities.
While the Special Rapporteur on FoRB, Nazila Ghanea, presented a detailed report outlining systemic religious discrimination in Hungary, the Hungarian government dismissed the findings outright—choosing instead to attack the credibility of the UN mechanism. Meanwhile, instead of engaging with substantive solutions for persecuted religious communities, several countries hijacked the discussion to settle political scores, reducing the debate into a diplomatic mudslinging contest.
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