File including a paper by Kevin Boyle, with manuscript annotation, entitled "Which Comes First: Democracy or Human Rights? The Refah Case.", including press releases, research papers and other documents regarding the Refah Partisi and Others V. Turkey case.

File re. remarks made by Kevin Boyle as part of the Oslo Global Forum, and other similar conferences, attended by Kevin Boyle on the topic of freedom of expression, hate speech, and censorship.

File includes documents relating to data protection and security. Includes a 1984 policy document on Data Protection Act and Computers for Essex University; A copy of the Data Protection Act for Essex University (1994); some general correspondence between Kevin Boyle, Essex University and others such as Prof. Steve Anderman (University of Essex); Dr. Fleur Fisher, British Medical association (18 Oct 1993) regarding medical records and ethics; a fax copy of proposed conference on 'Privacy, Information Access and Freedom of Expression: Partners or Opponents?' (21 Apr 1993); draft minutes of meeting of an organisation to promote privacy issues in the United Kingdom, held at University College London (18 Mar 1993), some press cuttings on data protection issues; published guidelines by the Council of Europe, 'Communication to Third Parties of Personal Data Held by Public Bodies.' (1993); copy of report by the JUSTICE group, 'Privacy and the Law' (1970) and other documents.

Files relating to research by Kevin Boyle on Hate Speech and the media, the internet and freedom of expression. Includes articles on hate speech and censorship by Tarlach McGonagle, and various other papers and reports on hate speech and human rights.

Files of documents relating to various aspects of Freedom of Religious Belief and Expression, such as research documents, press cuttings, conference documents, correspondence and other such documents relating to international instances of Freedom of Religious Belief issues.

Files of records relating to international conferences either attended by Kevin Boyle or which he had an interest in and which had a focus on the Freedom of Religious Belief in an international context.

File of documents being programmes and some papers delivered at international conferences, including: 'International Conference on Religion and Conflict' Armagh, 20-21 May 1994, and organised by University of Ulster. Includes letter to Kevin Boyle from Ciarán Ó Maoláin, Conference co-ordinator, informing Boyle of the acceptance of his paper for the conference (14 Mar 1994). Attached are press cuttings related to items of interest on this matter, relating to religion, conflict and education in Israel, Northern Ireland and Internationally; text of paper by Kevin Boyle and Alison Jolly presented at the International Conference on Religion and Conflict at the Armagh Conference and entitled "Religion, Conflict and International Law'.; File also includes a paper entitled "Church, Development and Tribal People in Madhya, India.' by Tony Morris, Dept. of Community and Aboriginal Education, at a conference 'Rights and Responsibilities', Deakin University, 29-31 July 1994.

Booklet from the conference organised by the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, U.K. and the Tandem Project, Minnesota, USA and held at the Barbican Centre, London. Kevin Boyle chaired the opening session of the conference on 'Working for Tolerance', and also presented a paper on the world report on the Freedom of Religious Belief.

Files contain records and documents from the 1998 conference on Freedom of Belief or Religion at Oslo, Norway, subtitled 'Accepting the Challenge: Building a Coalition to Protect Universal Freedom of Religion or Belief'. File 1 includes a conference booklet with details of speakers, topics, talks and papers and background on the conference; a list of participants; a list of goals and objectives for the conference; manuscript notes taken by Kevin Boyle during the conference and on 'Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica' headed paper; text of the 1981 United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief; a typescript letter from the conference organisers inviting Boyle to participate at the Oslo Conference. (23 Mar 1998)
FILE 2 contains various papers and texts of speeches delivered at the Oslo conference and documents filed under this conference by Boyle and which includes: text of Welcome and Opening Remark by Hilde F. Johnson, Minister of International Development and Human Rights; text of speech by Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, entitled 'Hope and History' and which makes reference to Kevin Boyle on page 2; Text of "The Politics of Religious Persecution", Allen D. Hertzke, University of Oklahoma; text of "Implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Commission; Welcome remarks at the Conference from Gunnar Stalsett; Report from the Concurrent Session on Research, Information Collection, Databases at the Conference; text of "The Persecution of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan" by Dr. I. A. Ayaz, National President, Ahmadiyya Muslim Association and other such documents. File 3 includes various research documents including Council of Europe judgements, published articles, academic articles and other such items filed by Kevin Boyle and kept as reference documents under Freedom of Religious Belief.

File of documents relating to the Oslo Conference focused on 'Anatomy of Fanaticism', Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica, Oslo. The conference was scheduled to take place in 1999 but was postponed until 2000 owing to a change in Government in Norway and subsequent unavailability of the Norwegian Cabinet at the original time. File includes conference outline and speaker details and correspondence between Boyle and other including conference participants.