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Ahmed Souaiaia is a professor at the University of Iowa with joint appointments in the Department of Religious Studies, International Studies, and College of Law. His research and teaching focus on women in Islam, human rights law, religion and politics, religion in the public sphere, political dissent in Islam, women in Islamic law, Islamic ...
International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) such as Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) consistently find human rights violations in Muslim-majority countries. Amongst the human rights issues that are frequently under the spotlight are LGBT rights, the right to consensual sex outside of marriage, freedom of speech ...
Fellowship Program in Islam and Human Rights; The Future of Sharia: Islam and the Secular State; Professor An-Na'im's current research projects include a study of Muslims and the secular state, and of human rights from state-centric to people-centered. He continues to further develop his theory advanced in his book Islam and the Secular State.
Human rights education (HRE) is the learning process that seeks to build up knowledge, values, and proficiency in the rights that each person is entitled to. This education teaches students to examine their own experiences from a point of view that enables them to integrate these concepts into their values, decision-making, and daily situations ...
The Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights is a document created by Islamic Councils in Paris [1] and London. [2] It restates basic human rights using the language of Islamic jurisprudence. [3] The difference between the original Arabic version and the official English translation has been described as "very problematic." [4]
The Makkah Declaration (2019) also known as the Charter of Makkah, is a document that was endorsed on 28 May 2019 in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Its creation was largely conceived and realized by the Muslim World League and it was presented by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. [1] It was written to create a pan-Islamic set of principles that ...
The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI) is a declaration of the member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) first adopted in Cairo, Egypt, on 5 August 1990, (Conference of Foreign Ministers, 9–14 Muharram 1411H in the Islamic calendar), and later revised in 2020 and adopted on 28 November 2020 (Council of Foreign Ministers at its 47th session in Niamey ...
The Arab Charter on Human Rights ( ACHR ), adopted by the Council of the League of Arab States on 22 May 2004, affirms the principles contained in the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam. It provides for a number of traditional ...