The Forced Migration Review Editors have produced this 12-page supplement to enhance debate and understanding of the concepts and instruments of international human rights in the Islamic world.
December 10th 2008 marked the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The UDHR and subsequent instruments of international human rights
law and international humanitarian law now play a vital role in providing protection for refugees and IDPs. Yet the claim to universality has been disputed and not all states have acceded to these legal instruments. It seems that a particular point of controversy or dispute in the Islamic world is their compatibility with sharia.
The supplement includes the full text of the UDHR and the ‘Cairo Declaration’ in the hope that they will both inform and enable those concerned with assisting and protecting displaced people to advocate more strongly on their behalf. We have also included three articles that take up aspects of the debate over the applicability of international laws and conventions in Islam.
It has been published in English and Arabic. The Arabic edition is online at http://www.hijra.org.uk/human-rights.htm
If you would like to receive one or more hard copies for your organisation, or multiple copies for distribution to partners and policy/decision-makers or for use at conferences/workshops, please contact the Editors at fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk. We will need to know your full postal address and how many copies you need (and in which language/s). We would also appreciate it if you could indicate how or where you plan to use it.
We encourage you to circulate or reproduce any articles in their entirety but please cite http://www.fmreview.org/human-rights.htm
We are grateful to UNICEF Iran for funding this supplement. http://www.unicef.org/iran/media_5595.html
Information about future issues of FMR is at http://www.fmreview.org/forthcoming.htm. |
