[Download] "Protecting Religions from "Defamation": A Threat to Universal Human Rights Standards." by Harvard Journal of Law&Public Policy * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Protecting Religions from "Defamation": A Threat to Universal Human Rights Standards.
- Author : Harvard Journal of Law&Public Policy
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 283 KB
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INTRODUCTION (1) Over the past decade, countries from the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) have been working through the United Nations system to advance the problematic idea that there should be laws against the so-called "defamation of religions." (2) Although touted as a solution to the very real problems of religious persecution and discrimination, the OIC-sponsored U.N. resolutions on religious defamation instead provide justification for governments to restrict religious freedom and free expression. They also provide international legitimacy for existing national laws that punish blasphemy or otherwise ban criticism of a religion, which often have resulted in gross human rights violations. (3) These resolutions deviate sharply from universal human fights standards by seeking to protect religious institutions and interpretations, rather than individuals, and could help create a new international anti-blasphemy norm.