Amendment No. 34 | Doc. 13441 | 09 April 2014

The protection of minors against excesses of sects

Signatories: Lord Donald ANDERSON, United Kingdom, SOC ; Mr Joe BENTON, United Kingdom, SOC ; Mr Brian BINLEY, United Kingdom, EDG ; Mr Jim DOBBIN, United Kingdom, SOC ; Mr Jeffrey DONALDSON, United Kingdom, EDG

Origin - 2014 - Second part-session

In the draft resolution, paragraph 4, replace the last sentence with the following sentence:

"The Assembly believes that any religious or quasi-religious organisation should be accountable in the public sphere for any contraventions of the criminal law and welcomes annoucements by established religious organisations that reports of child abuse within those organisations should be reported for investigation to the police. The Assembly does not believe that there are any grounds for discriminating between established and other religions, including minority religions and faiths, in the application of these principles."