Universal Declaration of Human Rights or Islamic Charter?
Dhimmi Watch
Two NGOs appealed today to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louis Arbour on the possible conflict between the 1948 Universal Declaration for Human Rights and the 1990 Cairo Declaration for Human Rights in Islam — with shari’a law as “the only source of reference” (articles 24 and 25).
Their Appeal for a legal ruling was prompted by the message of the Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, posted on the OIC website on Human Rights Day (December 10). It stated that the OIC was “considering the establishment of [an] independent permanent body to promote Human Rights in the [56] Member States in accordance with the provisions of the OIC Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam and to elaborate an OIC Islamic Charter on Human Rights.” Will an Islamic Charter soon prevail over Universal Human Rights?
Report by David G. Littman, in his capacity as representative of the World Union of Progressive Judaism (WUPJ) to the United Nations Office in Geneva:
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“This letter from two NGOs representing over 6 million members — the World Union for Progressive Judaism and the International Humanist and Ethical Union — was faxed to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Friday December 21.”
[Now read the letter.}
