The Council of Europe has passed a resolution on the protection of the rights of parents and children belonging to religious minorities. The resolution urges States to “affirm” and “protect the right of all not to be compelled to perform actions that go against their deeply held moral or religious beliefs”. It also recalls the right of parents to provide their children with an education in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions. Meanwhile, The Director of the European Centre for Law and Justice, Dr Grégor Puppinck, spoke at a conference at the European Court of Human Rights on the rights of families as regards education and religion.  In his speech, Dr Puppinck said the Universal Declaration of Human Rights expresses a subsidiary conception of society, which affirms the natural rights of parents to raise and educate their children and guarantees this right against the the State.