scholarly journals Malaysian Sikh Youths’ Perception of Diverse Sexual Identities

2020 ◽  
pp. 097639962095628
Author(s):  
Charanjit Kaur ◽  
Ashwinder Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
The World ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Violent Attack ◽  
Liberal Perspective

Malaysia is well known to the world audience as a multicultural nation and a country dominated by religious beliefs, including religions such as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism. However, over the years, Malaysia has been doing its rounds in the papers for its strict rules over the denial of human rights for the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community. In 2015, Malaysia’s ex–Prime Minister Najib Razak openly declared his take on the LGBT community by equating them to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and claiming that both are ‘enemies of Islam’. Whereas Islamic religious authorities have made clear their stance on LGBT communities, the Malaysian Consultative Council on Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (MCCBCHST) has taken a much-blanketed approach on the matter. The group is against any violent attack against, harassment or intimidation of and threat to the LGBT community, but the very essence of this stand is oxymoronic, as they have not done anything to prevent such incidents from taking place either. Sikhism has a liberal perspective on acceptance, regarding aspects such as gender, race, ethnicity and age, to name a few, that one would interpret it is an LGBT-friendly religion. Hence, this article is a humble attempt at understanding the Malaysian Sikh youths’ perspectives on the ever-growing branches of sexual identity. This article will add to the literature on Sikhs’ attitudes towards homosexuality, especially in Southeast Asia.

APEC Summit in Kuala Lumpur: APEC Leaders Debate Merits of Globalization; Gore Confronts Malaysian Prime Minister on Human Rights

1999 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-115 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
International Monetary System ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
The World ◽  
Mental Blocks

As host to APEC this year, Malaysia feels a strong sense of responsibility that the meeting should help tackle the current economic problems. As we approach a new millennium, it is imperative that we devise and put in place a better economic and financial regime now referred to as architecture for the world. Some of these will be the result of technological progress but others will reflect the emergence of new commercial and sociological ideas and values. With your indulgence, I would like to take this opportunity to discuss the present architecture or lack of it as manifested by the anarchical and unregulated capital flows in the international monetary system. In doing so we must not be tied down by fanatical beliefs which act as mental blocks to our recognition of the facts involved.

scholarly journals Challenging the Constitutionality of Section 377A in Singapore: Towards a More Humanist Treatment of Homosexuality in Singapore Law

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (SI) ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Baey Shi Baey Shi
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
The Law

This paper examines the tensions between the law, politics and public opinion in Singapore via a landmark 2014 ruling that upheld the constitutionality of Section 377A of the Penal Code criminalising sex between men. It argues that the ruling dealt a serious blow to the human rights project for minority groups in Singapore due to complex socio-political biases towards homosexuals and a narrow legal logic that is overly deferential to the legislature. This “tyranny of the majority” not only reinforces longstanding prejudices against the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community and deprives them of their rights, but potentially results in the graver consequence of compromising the integrity of the Singapore Constitution and the country’s democratic ideals. The paper also illustrates how the court of public opinion, split between conservative and liberal pro-humanist camps, not only keeps this issue at an impasse through opposing representations of homosexuality but also reflects an important ideological juncture that Singapore currently finds itself at as it navigates the path to modernisation and liberalisation. It urges a humanistic re-imagination of the law where the formulation and instrumentalisation of laws are constantly renegotiated and reworked to become more responsive as historical contexts and social relations between various parties beyond the State and its apparatus evolve. It also ventures that decriminalising homosexuality presents Singapore with the opportunity to define a new Asian post-colonial modernity and that the concept of “rights capital” can introduce greater equity and dignity within society.

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN ISLAM DAN NEGARA: Merespons Wacana Politik Islam Kontemporer di Indonesia

Al-Ahkam ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (25) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Hamsah Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Functional Relationship ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Approach ◽  
Religion And State ◽  
The Relationship

This article aims to discuss the issues of the relationship between Islam and state in the Islamic political perspective in Indonesia. This study was motivated by the desire to criticize the development and “up and down” relationship between Islam and state that is very dynamic coloring political situation in “Islamic majority country” Indonesia. This article concluded that understanding the relationship between religion and state with Islamic political approach is not meant to establish a religious state or an Islamic state of Indonesia, but more on filling spaces are functionally religion in order society, nation and state. The relationship between Islam and state can be integrated in a functional relationship equally aspire to nobility. Even integralistic, symbiotic, and secularistic relations, each should be viewed as a form of complementary. Facing the development of modernization, the relationship between Islam and state should be articulated as an effort to always adapt to the development of society in its various aspects, such as: the globalization of the world political economy, science and technology, the development issues of democracy, gender, human rights, pluralism, both nationally and internationally.

scholarly journals Homosexuality in Ghana: Morality, Law, Human Rights

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond A. Atuguba
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
Current State ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
The Status ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
State Of Affairs

This paper addresses the status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) persons in Ghana. Firstly, it examines the effects of Ghana’s laws and law enforcement practices on the ability of members of the LGBT community to live openly and freely and to enjoy all the rights guaranteed other citizens. Secondly, it explores the current state of affairs within the country as regards the LGBT population, addressing specifically, how members of the community are treated by Ghanaian society. On the whole, the paper advocates for the recognition of members of the LGBT community as equal members of Ghanaian society, deserving of the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

scholarly journals FENOMENA LGBT DALAM PERSPEKTIF HAM DAN DOKTRIN AGAMA (SOLUSI DAN PENCEGAHAN)

Refleksi ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-66
Author(s):  
Abdul Malik Ghozali
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Abnormal Behavior ◽  
Psychiatric Disease ◽  
Western World ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Religious Doctrine ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender movements are now a mondial phenomenon. The LGBT community has dared to show itself to the surface. Not only in the Western world alone, but LGBT excitement also rife in the homeland. The emergence of LGBT community in the midst of people's life raises pro and contra. Some people criticize the existence of the LGBT community, because it is considered a people with abnormal behavior and deviates from religious teachings. Others accept it as part of appreciating their exclusion in Human Rights. This study attempts to answer some key questions: What are the views of Islamic teachings and the Human Rights Charter on LGBT behavior? How can the human rights and religious doctrine match in solving this LGBT problem? What are the LGBT prevention solutions and solutions that can be done? To answer this question, research is done by studying religious texts be it the Qur'an or hadith, and the text of the Human Rights Charter. Both types of texts are examined in various approaches; theological, historical, philosophical, medical, tafsir, hermeneutical, jurisprudence and psychological. Content analisys method was initially performed on the text of the Qur'an and the hadith. Matan hadith explored by takhrij method and study of hadith text. From this study, it is concluded that LGBT behavior in religious doctrine is strictly prohibited. Likewise the Human Rights Charter can not justify LGBT behavior under the pretext of individual freedom. Because individual freedom is automatically limited by other individual freedoms and legislation. Treatment and prevention solutions can be done to LGBT behaviors. Because psychically, LGBT behavior is a psychiatric disease that can be treated and prevented.

scholarly journals KUMPULAN LESBIAN, GAY, BISEKSUAL DAN TRANSGANDER (LGBT) ANCAMAN TERHADAP KEAMANAN DAN KEHARMONIAN BERAGAMA DI MALAYSIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Noor Hafizah Bt. Mohd Haridi ◽  
Norsaleha Bt. Mohd Salleh
Keyword(s):  
Public Security ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Human System ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
United Nation

<em>Sexual and Gender disorder Issues, which refers to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community is not a new issue. Allah has explained about homosexual issues prevailing among the people of Prophet Luth. This paper discusses the related issues (LGBT) by analyzing a collection of aspects of this threat to the security and religious harmony. Various claims have been made by this group in the name of human rights. Symptoms, treatment and disposition opposed to the normal life of a person human system has become a regular affair in the world and especially Malaysia. In fact the case is cultivated in transnational level through United Nation Human Right Convention (UNHRC) and backed by the major countries in tthe world. The symptoms of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) has become accepted way of life by the outside community and now infiltrating in the life of islamic community in Malaysia. These symptoms shall be dammed to ensure public security and religious harmony in Malaysia.</em> Permasalahan kecelaruan seksual dan jantina, yang merujuk kepada komuniti Lesbian, Gay, Biseksual. dan Transgender (LGBT) bukan merupakan isu baru. Sebaliknya, Allah swt telah menjelaskan tentang permasalahan homoseksual yang berlaku di kalangan umat Nabi Lut as. Penulisan ini membincangkan isu berkaitan (LGBT) dengan menganalisis dari aspek ancaman kumpulan ini terhadap keamanan dan keharmonian beragama. Pelbagai tuntutan telah dilakukan oleh kumpulan ini atas nama hak asasi manusia. Gejala, perlakuan dan tabiat bertentangan dengan sistem kehidupan normal seseorang manusia telah menjadi suatu perkara yang biasa di dunia amnya dan Malaysia khasnya. Malah perkara ini diperjuang di peringkat antarabangsa menerusi United Nation Human Right Convention (UNHRC) dan disokong oleh negara-negara besar dunia.Gejala lesbian, gay, biseksual dan transgender (LGBT) telah menjadi cara hidup yang diterima oleh masyarakat luar dan kini sedang meresap masuk ke ruang atmosfera kehidupan masyarakat Islam di Malaysia. Gejala ini wajib dibendung bagi menjamin kemanan dan keharmonian beragama masyarakat di Malaysia.

scholarly journals Alternatif atas Pemberlakuan Hukum Humaniter Internasional dalam Konflik Bersenjata Melawan Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayub Torry Satriyo Kusumo ◽  
Kukuh Tejomurti
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Fundamental Principle ◽  
Alternative Solution ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
The World ◽  
State Actor

<p align="center"><strong><em>Abstract</em></strong></p><p><em>Recently, there is a shift in armed conflict in the world from the conflicts among states or between state and belligerent into the conflict which happened across nations’ border, such as the </em><em>Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The ISIS is a non-state actor, which consequently means that the conflicts cannot be properly categorized into international armed conflict. As the consequence, the international humanitarian law cannot be put into practice. The alternative solution is to apply the Martens Clause by paying an ultimate appreciation of fundamental principles of international humanitarian law for the sake of humanity and human rights</em>.</p><p><strong><em>Keywords </em></strong><strong>: <em>ISIS, Martens Clause, Fundamental Principle</em></strong></p><p align="center"> </p><p align="center"><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p>Dewasa ini telah terjadi pergeseran subyek konflik bersenjata yang semula terjadi antar-negara atau antara negara dengan pemberontak menjadi konflik lintas-batas negara seperti <em>Islamic State of Iraq and Syria </em>(ISIS). Status ISIS dalam hukum internasional bukan sebagai negara melainkan sebagai aktor non negara (<em>non-state actor</em>). Perang melawan ISIS tidak termasuk ke dalam konflik bersenjata internasional karena tidak memenuhi kriteria berdasarkan Konvensi Jenewa Tahun 1949 dan Protokol Tambahan I Tahun 1977. Hal ini sangat mungkin memunculkan kesulitan pemberlakukan HHI. Sebagai alternatifnya, penerapan <em>Martens Clause</em> dapat dilakukan, yaitu dengan menghormati prinsip-prinsip fundamental yang menjadi dasar hukum humaniter internasional demi penghargaan terhadap kemanusiaan dan hak asasi manusia.</p><p><strong>Kata kunci : ISIS, <em>Martens Clause</em>, Prinsip Fundamental</strong><strong></strong></p><strong></strong><strong></strong>

Rekindling the Flame: Zoroastrianism in Iraqi Kurdistan

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-188
Author(s):  
Samme Dick
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Kurdistan Region ◽  
Legislative Change ◽  
Iraqi Kurdistan ◽  
The World ◽  
Legislative Changes ◽  
New Religion

This article examines the emergence of Zoroastrianism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq since 2015 as a new religion inspired by Kurdish nationalism, feminism, ecologism and humanism. The author argues that the emergence of Zoroastrianism at this particular time is due to a combination of the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in 2014, legislative change and the importance some Kurdish nationalists historically attached to Zoroastrianism as the suggested original religion of the Kurds. The article outlines the historical context of Zoroastrianism in Kurdistan, and then explores the origins, beliefs and organisational structure of Kurdish Zoroastrianism. Also discussed are the legislative changes enabling the rise of the movement since 2015. This study draws on interviews with Kurdish Zoroastrian leaders as well as with representatives from the World Zoroastrian Organization, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s Ministry of Endowments and Religious Affairs and the Alliance of Iraqi Minorities.ABSTRACT IN KURMANJIJi nû ve pêxistina agir: Baweriya Zerduştî li Kurdistana IraqêEv gotar, li ser peydabûna Zerduştiyê li Herêma Kurdistanê ya Iraqê hûr dibe, ku ji 2015an vir ve wek dînekî nû yê ji netewegeriya kurd, femînîzm, ekolojîzm û humanîzmê îlham wergirtî tê dîtin. Nivîskar îddia dike ku peydabûna Zerduştiyê ya bi taybetî wê demê ji ber hejmareke sedeman e: di 2014an de peydabûn û xurtbûna Dewleta Îslamî li Iraqê û Levantê, guherîna qanûnî û girîngiya nêrîna hin netewegerên kurd ku ji aliyê dîrokî Zerduştiyê wek dînê resen ê kurdan dibînin. Gotar, çarçoveya dîrokî ya Zerduştiyê li Kurdistanê bi kurtî rave dike û paşê li kok, bawerî û avahiya rêxistinî ya Zerduştiya kurdî dikole. Ji hêleke din, nîqaş dike ku guherînên hiqûqî ji 2015an vir ve rê li ber xurtbûna tevgerê vekiriye. Ev xebat xwe dispêre hevpeyvînên bi rêberên Zerduştiyên kurd re ligel hin şandeyên ji Rêxistina Zerduştiyan a Cîhanê, Wezareta Bexş û Karên Dînî ya Hikumeta Herêma Kurdistanê û Hevpeymaniya Kêmîneyên Iraqê.ABSTRACT IN SORANIGeşandinewey agireke: Zerdeştêtî le Kurdistanî ÊraqdaEm babete timaşay rewşî  wediyarkewtinî Zerdeştêtî dekat le Kurdistanî Êraqda, le sall 2010da wek ayînêkî nwê debînrêt ke le netewegerîy kurdî, fêmênîzm, jîngeparêzî û mirovparêzî îlham werdegirêt. Nûser bangeşey ewe dekat ke derkewtinî Zerdeştêtî lem kateda ke Dewlletî Îslamî Da'îş le Şam û Êraq le 2013 ser helldeda û be yasa rêgey pê dedirêt, şitêkî giringe  bo gerranewey kurd bo  ayînî neteweyî xoy wek ewey ke hendêk kurdî neteweperist  basî deken.  Babeteke rîşey mêjûyî Zerdeştêtî le Kurdistan nîşan dedat, herwaş rîşey  bawerr û binaẍey damezrawey Zerdeştêtî dedate ber roşnayî. Dîsan guftugoy gorranî yasa lew bareyewe bote hoyî derkewtinî em ayîne le 2015da. Em babete legell serok û bawerrdaranî Zerdeştîy le Kurdistan û damezrawey Zerdeştîyanî cîhanî û legell wezaretî karubarî ayînî le ḧukumetî herêmî Kurdistan û damezrawey kemînekanî Êraqda çawpêkewtinî encam dawe.ABSTRACT IN ZAZAKINewe ra geşkerdişê adirî: Kurdîstanê Îraqî de zerduştîyeNa meqale qayîtê zerduştîye kena ke sey bawerîya newîye serra 2015î ra nat Herêmê Kurdîstanî yê Îraqî de vejîyaye û hetê neteweperwerîya kurdan, femînîzm, dorûverperwerîye û merdimperwerîye ra îlham girewt. Nuştox musneno ke vejîyayîşê zerduştî yê ê demî çend sebeban ra qewimîya: hêzdarbîyayîşê DAÎŞ yê serra 2014î, vurîyayîşê qanûnî û tayê neteweperwerê kurdan ê ke tarîx de giranî daye zerduştîye ser ke aye sey dînê kurdan o eslî pêşnîyaz bikerê. Na meqale xulasaya kontekstê tarîxî yê zerduştîya Kurdîstanî dana û dima esl, bawerî û awanîya rêxistinan yê zerduştîya kurdan ser o cigêrayîş kena. Ser o kî vurîyayîşê qanûnî munaqeşe benê. Nê vurîyayîşî serra 2015î ra nat vejîyayîşê tevger kerd mumkîn. No cigêrayîş roportajanê bi serekanê kurdan ê zerduştîye û bi temsîlkaranê Rêxistina Zerduştîyan a Dinya, Wezaretê Ewqaf û Kar û Barê Dînî yê hukmatê Herêmê Kurdîstanî û Yewîya Eqalîyetanê Îraqî esas gêno

The Legacy of Iraq

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
The World ◽  
Free Market Capitalism ◽  
Market Capitalism

This book critically reflects on the failure of the 2003 intervention to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy, underpinned by free-market capitalism, its citizens free to live in peace and prosperity. The book argues that mistakes made by the coalition and the Iraqi political elite set a sequence of events in motion that have had devastating consequences for Iraq, the Middle East and for the rest of the world. Today, as the nation faces perhaps its greatest challenge in the wake of the devastating advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and another US-led coalition undertakes renewed military action in Iraq, understanding the complex and difficult legacies of the 2003 war could not be more urgent. Ignoring the legacies of the Iraq War and denying their connection to contemporary events could mean that vital lessons are ignored and the same mistakes made again.

TO THE QUESTION OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR TORTURE IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
ASTEMIR ZHURTOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Life ◽  
International Standards ◽  
World Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
The Russian Federation

Cruel and inhumane acts that harm human life and health, as well as humiliate the dignity, are prohibited in most countries of the world, and Russia is no exception in this issue. The article presents an analysis of the institution of responsibility for torture in the Russian Federation. The author comes to the conclusion that the current criminal law of Russia superficially and fragmentally regulates liability for torture, in connection with which the author formulated the proposals to define such act as an independent crime. In the frame of modern globalization, the world community pays special attention to the protection of human rights, in connection with which large-scale international standards have been created a long time ago. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international acts enshrine prohibitions of cruel and inhumane acts that harm human life and health, as well as degrade the dignity.Considering the historical experience of the past, these standards focus on the prohibition of any kind of torture, regardless of the purpose of their implementation.

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