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Which gets protection - belief or believer? The organisation of Islamic cooperation and the campaign against the 'Defamation of Religions'
Schutz der Religionen oder Schutz der Gläubigen? Die Organisation für Islamische Zusammenarbeit und die Kampagne gegen die "Diffamierung von Religionen"
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Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
Abstract "From the mid-1990s, the Organization of the Islamic Conference promoted the adoption of an anti-defamation resolution as a means of getting the protection of Islam and Muslims from defamation and discrimination in the Western world enshrined as a new norm within the UN system. After an initial peri... view more
"From the mid-1990s, the Organization of the Islamic Conference promoted the adoption of an anti-defamation resolution as a means of getting the protection of Islam and Muslims from defamation and discrimination in the Western world enshrined as a new norm within the UN system. After an initial period of receptivity,support for the idea waned. The author reconstructs the course of the OIC's UN campaign between 1999 and 2011, exploring its political,
historical, and human-rights context. She examines the underlying circumstances and normative clashes that prevented the norm from being incorporated into human-rights legislation." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
Islam; Muslim; human rights; freedom of opinion; religious freedom; discrimination; stereotype; tolerance; UNO; human rights convention
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Law
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
City
Frankfurt am Main
Page/Pages
31 p.
Series
PRIF Reports, 136
ISBN
978-3-942532-92-1
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications