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35.
Principles of intercultural education had been included in the school curricula, and
school books had been and continued to be revised. Further educational measures had been
implemented, such as the prohibition of the distribution of leaflets, particularly those
creating a negative image or defaming religion, belief or tradition; in compliance with
international law, the functioning of schools for children of the Muslim minority in Thrace
and the teaching of religious studies to Roman Catholic pupils in Cyclades; the recognition
of religious holidays of Muslim and Roman Catholic students; and, the teaching of different
religions around the world as part of the high school programme.
36.
The Ministry of Education also provided for the appointment of teaching staff in the
schools of the Jewish communities of Athens and Thessaloniki, in response to the
communities’ requests, as well as for the operation of the only public Jewish school in
Larissa.
Hungary
37.
Constitutional regulations governed freedom of religion and belief in Hungary.
According to the Fundamental Law of Hungary, everyone had the right to the free selection
or change of religion or other conviction and the freedom whereby everyone may or may
not manifest, may practice or teach his or her religion or other conviction by performing
religious actions or rituals or by other manners, whether individually or in common with
others, in public or in private.
38.
Those who followed the same doctrine could set up a religious community to
practice their religion, in the organizational form specified in the Cardinal Act. The State
and the religious communities worked separately; religious communities were independent.
Nevertheless, the State and religious communities could cooperate to achieve the
community objectives. The rules relevant to religious communities were provided in the
Cardinal Act on Churches, which protected fundamental rights; defined the religious
community as an umbrella concept for the organizational framework and included therein;
“accepted churches” had public law status under the amended act (Cardinal Act on
Churches).
39.
If the stipulated conditions for recognition as an accepted church were met, the
Minister forwarded the application to the National Assembly, which had, to date,
recognized 32 religious communities as accepted churches. According to the fundamental
law, other organizations which performed religious activities could use the name “church”,
which thus warranted the identity protection of these communities. Hungary reported that a
determinative part of the rules formerly only applicable to the legal status of churches
applied to all the religious communities, including organizations performing religious
activities, granting them much greater autonomy than before.
40.
The Government and the National Assembly of Hungary regularly spoke out against
religious intolerance. Hungarian government bodies held regular dialogues not only with
the accepted churches, but also with other interested religious communities.
Indonesia
41.
The Government of Indonesia had conducted outreach activities among stakeholders
within and outside the Government, including by disseminating Human Rights Council
resolution 22/31 among members of the local committees of the Human Rights Action Plan
at the provincial and district levels. It had also strengthened its national mechanisms, Forum
Kerukunan Umat Beragama (FKUB) (Inter-religious Communication Forum), to identify
potential conflict among different religious followers and provide conflict prevention and
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