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Fundamental Human Rights in ISKCON
[continued] No
member of ISKCON shall have his or her membership rights in ISKCON limited
or terminated without a full and fair hearing by an independent and
impartial tribunal. It is essential to such a full and fair hearing that
the accused ISKCON member be given (a) reasonable notice of the hearing,
(b) the opportunity to present witnesses and evidence on his or her own
behalf, and (c) the opportunity to confront the witnesses and evidence
against him or her. Article
11 Every
member of ISKCON shall have the right to freedom of movement and
residence. Every temple dependent resident member shall have the right to
leave his or her temple ashrama
for the purpose of establishing his own separate residence at any time.
However, any ISKCON member who seeks residence in a temple ashrama
must abide by the rules of that ashram, including the rules of
admission to that ashram. Article
12 Every
member of ISKCON who is of full legal age, without any limitation due to
race, national or social origin, language, birth status, gender or
religion, shall have the right to marry and to found a family. Both
male and female members of ISKCON are entitled to equal rights under
ISKCON and secular law as to marriage, during marriage and at its
dissolution. However, this article does not itself create any right to
dissolve a marriage. Marriage
shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending
spouses. The
family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is
entitled to protection by ISKCON. Article
13 Motherhood
and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. It is the duty
of ISKCON leaders to provide protection to the women and children in their
area. It is also the duty of ISKCON leaders to provide resources and
programmes for the development and enrichment of the children in ISKCON. Article
14 Every
member of ISKCON shall have the right to freedom of thought and
conscience. While ISKCON leaders may place reasonable restrictions on a
member's public expression of ideas which conflict with ISKCON's position,
no member of ISKCON shall be sanctioned for ideas or beliefs which differ
from official ISKCON positions or for ideas or beliefs which contradict
those of ISKCON leaders. However, this provision shall not prevent ISKCON
from requiring that its members ascribe to ISKCON's official positions in
order to hold leadership positions. Article
15 Every
member of ISKCON shall be entitled to such education and service
opportunities as will assist his or her full development in Krsna
consciousness without discrimination on the basis of race, national or
social origin, language, birth status, gender, or identity of the member's
initiating guru as long as that guru is authorised by ISKCON to give
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