STATEMENT International Association for the Defense of Religious Liberty (IADRL) Liviu Olteanu, Secretary General United Nations Office Geneva 27 NoveMber 2013 How to promote the constructive interfaith dialogue, consultation and exchange? Madame Chair, Ladies and Gentlemen, International Association for the Defense of Religious Liberty (IADRL) is ensuring that human rights, religious freedom and religious minority have a view of equality and without discrimination to all people. Article 4, paragraph 2 of the Declaration on the rights of persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities - 1992, provides that States "will adopt the necessary measures to ensure that persons belonging to minorities can express their characteristics and develop their culture, traditions. We ALL PEOPLE, can do a lot promoting constructive interfaith dialogue, and appreciating the culture of other. We all people want to live in a world with peace, liberty and security. We don't have to be afraid of the diferencies' other. The diversity has a creative value for all of us. The Nations of the world and all the actors, have to give a special atention finding solutions against discrimination which affects specially the women and the girls. Also the young people which belong to religious minorites have to receive protection against every form of discrimination « direct or indirect, multiple or combined >>. Congratulation to all the women from this Room XX at the Palace of UN and to all the women of entire world for all their efforts in favor of peace, arniony and better world, Positive solutions, EFFICIENT MEASURES 1. Training programs on human rights, religious freedom and religious minorities, carried out in two directions: a) on the one hand for public and Governmental officials, aiming to know and update on the rights of minorities, and b) on the other hand, for religious M inorities, in order that they know their rights. Social awareness and constant "interreligious - intergovernmental academic and civil society" dialogue. We are conducting these activities, periodically organizing training conferences, with the cooperation of parliaments and ministries of foreign affairs, justice, education, and culture, with religious leaders and universities. . o Examples of recent events of this type: Romania and Spain.

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