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Islam, international law and the protection of refugees and IDPs
Musab Hayatli

Over half of the world’s more than 10 million refugees are in Muslim countries while 9 million of the total of over 26[i] million IDPs worldwide are displaced in the Muslim world, including over 800,000 newly displaced as a result of the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings.[ii]

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Child rights and Islam
Christian Salazar Volkmann

A greater engagement with Islamic thinkers is overdue in order to facilitate debate about child rights in Muslim societies and beyond.

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The rights of refugee women and children in Islam
Saeid Rahaei

Faith and religious beliefs play an undeniable role in defending the rights of refugees and asylum seekers. Respect for refugees and asylum seekers and appreciation of those who provide refuge have a particular place in sharia, and Islam pays special attention to the suffering of forced migrants.[1]

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Human rights resources and links
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Full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Full text of the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam
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Full text of the Ashgabat Declaration of the International Ministerial Conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Refugees in the Muslim World
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Who has signed what? A selection of human rights and refugee conventions and treaties, plus signatories

 

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