What a surprise eh, when jws were probably slagging off other religions from the platform, they were sitting in a conference with members of those religions! Actually, they took part in this year's conference as well
Jehovah's Witness and the Anti-Cult Movement: Human Rights Issues - John B. BROWN
Sunday July 16, 2006
This is a section of the material presented
Disfellowshipping alone is not a human rights abuse. The sentence of disfellowshipping is not a human rights abuse unless human rights principles or laws, as defined by international human rights declarations and treaties, are breached.
Social boycotting as a part of disfellowshipping is not alone a human rights abuse. Social boycotts have been an effective form of nonviolent resistance.[iv], [v]Some anticult activists[vi] have interpreted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) to mean that disfellowshipping is a human rights violation. Disfellowshipping is not “torture cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment" as some anticult activist have claimed.
The whole talk is on this link http://www.cesnur.org/2006/sd_brown.htm