The photo; planning the conference in the Italian Senate (right to left); Elisabetta Zamparutti, Giulio Terzi, Struan Stevenson, Salam Sarhan and Matteo Angioli.
We are delighted to confirm that we are organizing our next international conference in the Italian Senate on 5 June 2025, sponsored by Senator Giulio Terzi, President of the 4th Permanent Senate Commission of EU Affairs and former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
This highly significant conference will bring together stakeholder officials from the Council of Europe and around the world to draw the roadmap of the mission toward the UN General Assembly.
It aims to build a global partnership of leading officials, lawmakers and international organizations to work together toward introducing new international rules to eliminate the root causes of religious conflicts and discrimination worldwide.
The sole objective is to build a global consensus on setting indisputable standards to define and prohibit all forms of political abuses of religion that violate human rights.
This platform is for brave decision-makers, officials, lawmakers and global organizations to introduce a simple indisputable approach to ban: all political Abuses of religion that undermine human equality; all religious discrimination in rights and duties; all religious exclusions; and all restrictions to freedom of religion or belief.
We believe that these universal rules would empower many governments to enforce greater respect for human rights. It would also make it possible for countries, entangled with religious discrimination, to join the world consensus on justice and equality for all.
This partnership aims to encourage governments from different regions to adopt the introduction of the aforementioned rules at the United Nations General Assembly in a collective effort to develop and promote the goal of enacting a significant United Nations treaty to prohibit the political abuse of religion.
This mission is already underway and has support in over 80 countries at various levels. It has led to a significant supporting motion for resolution at the Council of Europe and advanced engagements with several governments worldwide.
All participants are committed to working together to lobby their governments to support this mission on the international stage, believing that it would be very rewarding for any government to lead this global effort to make the world more fair and more peaceful.
