Professor of international rights announced completion of a book titled “Islamic Human Rights Charter” which includes seminar articles presented a year and a half ago by Center of International Cultural Studies I accordance with the 60th anniversary of human rights charter issuance.

IBNA: Dr Mohammad Hossein Mozafari, head of the center for Religions in Conversation of the Organization of Culture and Islamic Communication said “This book consists of 10 articles by professors and lecturers of human rights mostly dealing with problems and challenges facing Islamic countries when attempting to create human rights foundations.”

Regarding the 60th anniversary of human rights charter issuance and the seminar event in Iran, he said “At that time, the secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Rights had announced the organization tended to make regional arrangements for human rights of islamic countries in 2008. Accordingly, the international center of religious studies decided to hold this seminar for a survey on future opportunities and its challenges from the viewpoints of experts.”

He asserted that considering unfulfilled promises of holding the conference of Islamic Rights, Akmaluddin Ihsan Oqlu, secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Rights has emphasized upon rearrangements for it as it is a necessity to deal with this issue in order to devise Islamic human rights charter.

Dr Mozafari reminded, “The approach of the world of Islam and Muslims to the discourse of human rights should be formed in a regional document - as suggested by the Organization of Islamic Conference - by all 57 Islamic countries and particularly Iran that aims to deal with it through the Islamic Republic channel. This book tends to distinguish and concretize different dimensions, characteristics and practical aspects of it.”

He also said, “Islam challenges the west regarding human rights. Some western writers and governments accuse Islamic countries that what is considered as the Islamic government’s obsession with executing Islamic law is but an excuse to parry from the execution of international laws on human rights. Therefore, it is necessary to formalize laws of Islamic human rights and to get to a regional consensus in order to respond to these accusations.”

6 August is named the Day of Islamic Human Rights and accordingly Imam Sadeq University is supposed to publish “Islamic Human Rights Charter” in a 200-page volume.

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