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In the paper the new Hungarian constitutional regulation and related statutes on the right to conscience and religion and establishment of churches are examined and compared to the previous regulatory framework. The comparism seems necessary as in 2011 the Hungarian Parliament adopted a new Fundamental Law and new statute on these fundamental rights. Due to the changed constitutional framerwork concerning the establishment of churches, it seems possible that in Hungary there may be a serious deficit in promoting human rights. ; El objeto del trabajo consiste en comparar la nueva regulación del derecho a la libertad religiosa en Hungría con la que existía antes. Los autores del artículo sugieren que los cambios referentes a la libertad de culto pueden suponer un atentado a la dimensión promocional de los derechos fundamentales.

The Australian Constitution contains no guarantee of freedom of religion or freedom of conscience. Indeed, it contains very few provisions dealing with rights — in essence, it is a Constitution that confines itself mainly to prescribing a framework for federal government, setting out the various powers of government and limiting them as between federal and state governments and the three branches of government without attempting to define the rights of citizens except in minor respects. Whether Australia should have a national bill of rights has been a controversial issue for quite some time. This is despite the fact that Australia has acceded to the ICCPR, as well as the First Optional Protocol to the ICCPR, thereby accepting an international obligation to bring Australian law into line with the ICCPR, an obligation that Australia has not discharged. Australia is the only country in the Western world without a national bill of rights. The chapters that follow in this book debate the situation in Australia and in various other Western jurisdictions.

"Freedom of religion is an issue of universal interest and scope. However, in the last two centuries at least, the philosophical, religious and legal terms of the question have been largely defined in the West. In an increasingly global world, widening our knowledge of this right's roots in different cultural and legal systems becomes a priority. This Handbook seeks to attain this goal through a better understanding of the historical roots and expressions of the right to freedom of religion on the one hand and, on the other, of its theological background in different religious traditions. History and theology provide the setting for the analysis of the politics of freedom of religion, that is, how this right is used in the context of the dialogue/confrontation between countries placed in different cultural regions of the world, and of the legal strategies and tools that have been developed and are employed to protect and foster the right to freedom of religion. Behind these legal and political strategies there is an ongoing debate about the nature of this right, whose main features are explored in the final section. Global, historical and interdisciplinary in approach, this book studies the new relevance of freedom of religion worldwide and develops suitable categories to analyze and understand the role that freedom of religion can play in managing religious and cultural diversity in our societies. Authored by experts, through the contributions collected in these chapters, scholars and students will be able to broaden and deepen their knowledge of the right to freedom of religion and to develop the ability to go beyond the borders of the different cultural environments in which this right took shape and developed.""--

The right to freedom of religion : an historical perspective from the West / John Witte, Jr. -- The right to freedom of religion : an historical perspective from Asia / Kevin YL Tan -- The right to freedom of religion : an historical perspective from Africa / Ahmed Salisu Garba -- The right to freedom of belief : an historical perspective on secular humanism / Caroline Sägesser -- Buddhist perspectives on freedom of religion and belief / BenjaminSchonthal -- Religious freedom : Christian perspectives / Norman Doe -- Hindu perspectives on the right to religious freedom / Laura Dudley Jenkins and Kristina M. Teater -- The right of religious freedom in contemporary Islamic thought / Wael Saleh and Patrice Brodeur -- Jewish perspectives / Matthew LaGrone -- Building an inter-religious notion of the right to freedom of religion : dangers, opportunities and goals / Arvind Sharma -- Geopolitics of the right to freedom of religion. Western perspectives / Gerhard Robbers -- Freedom of religion : Asian perspectives / Jaclyn L. Neo and Arif A. Jamal -- The right to freedom of religion and belief : African perspectives / Idowu A. Akinloye -- Freedom of religion : Asian perspectives / Jaclyn L. Neo and Arif A. Jamal -- The right to freedom of religion and belief : African perspectives / Idowu A. Akinloye -- Freedom of religion : constitutional patterns of protection / Johan D. van der Vyver -- The right to religious freedom in international human rights law : a brief overview and exploration of its positive dimension / Laurens Lavrysen and Eva Brems -- The right to freedom of and from religion for and among indigenous peoples / Martin Ramstedt -- The organic unity of human rights and the place of freedom of religion or belief : challenge and response / David Little -- The dialectics of the right to freedom of religion or belief / Peter G. Danchin.

In this article I explore how national and European law deal with situations where the right to social security, and, more broadly, the law on social security, seem to conflict with the freedom of religion. The article begins by specifying what is meant by the terms 'social security' and 'freedom of religion'. It attempts to illustrate areas of real or apparent conflict between the freedom of religion and social security law, referring to case law and practice in a variety of Western countries. It then deals with religious objections to participation in social security schemes as such, with the definition of suitable work from a religious perspective and with health care coverage in light of religious objections. In conclusion, it seeks to develop an approach that can be followed for solving cases of real or apparent tension between social security law and the freedom of religion.

This interdisciplinary volume examines the relationship between secularism, freedom of religion and human rights in legal, theoretical, historical and political perspective. It brings together chapters from leading scholars of human rights, law and religion, political theory, religious studies and history, and provides insights into the state of the debate about the relationship between these concepts. Comparative in orientation, its chapters draw on constitutional and political discourses and experience not only from Western Europe and the United States, but also from India, the Arab world, and Malaysia