scholarly journals English-3 The portrayal of Human Rights in Islam –Multi-perspective disposition

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-35
Author(s):  
Sumbul Ansar ◽  
Syeda Rakhshanda Kaukab ◽  
Umair Rais Uddin
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Global State ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
The Real ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Western Concept ◽  
Real Essence

Abstract: This paper briefly sketches the nature, practices, and challenges of human rights from Muslim viewpoints. Historically, Islam is the pioneer of endorsing human rights. However, there are clashes between the Islamic and western concept of human rights, which has categorized human rights into various schools of thoughts. This debate has ignored realism and obscured the real essence of human values. The paper briefly analyzes the potential of human rights principles and their scope to serve as a mediator to improve human rights conditions. Although Muslim countries are facing severe human rights challenges due to social, cultural, political and economic forces, the concept of human values and justice, as portrayed by Islam is universal and has positive genesis to improve the global state of human rights upon embracement.    

scholarly journals The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-97
Author(s):  
Oliver Nikolić
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Universal Declaration ◽  
The Real ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
Sharia Law ◽  
Negative Thoughts

In this paper, the author presents the Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, one of the most important legal acts on human rights adopted by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Cairo in 1990. Although this Declaration pretends to improve the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it must be stated that it is acceptable only in countries with a population of Islamic faiths. What most threatens the universality of its application is its deep-rootedness and literal dependence on Sharia law. The article briefly describes all the rights and freedoms mentioned in the Cairo Declaration. At first glance, this Declaration provides protection and guarantees many human rights, even more than the Universal Declaration, but all these rights must be in accordance with Sharia law. This mandatory compliance with Sharia law often makes senseless and restrains the real protection of guaranteed rights. Both positive and negative thoughts and views on the Cairo Declaration are presented, depending on whether theorists of Islamic religions or Western countries have written about it. No matter how you look at it, this Declaration will make sense and will be valid only in Muslim countries, without any possibilities to apply it in some other countries.

Coming Home to a Foreign Land

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
Michael Daxner
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Foreign Land ◽  
Final Curtain ◽  
Holding Back ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

These days, the old Europe is moving towards its final curtain call. The war in the Balkans is a spectre which repeats and concludes all that happened in the last century; and a ghostly farce unrolls before us. Concepts like war and peace, the rights of nations, humanity and human rights are the conceptual covers of a happening now ripening into fateful maturity. Its primary causes were a tactical holding back, a lack of knowledge of the real circumstances, secret and openly expressed prejudices, and a shabby mentality of 'not getting involved'. As a result of this, all structures are being destroyed.

Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Shed Light

This volume reframes the debate around Islam and women’s rights within a broader comparative literature. It examines the complex and contingent historical relationships between religion, secularism, democracy, law, and gender equality. Part I addresses the nexus of religion, law, gender, and democracy through different disciplinary perspectives (sociology, anthropology, political science, law). Part II localizes the implementation of this nexus between law, gender, and democracy, and provides contextualized responses to questions raised in Part I. The contributors explore the situation of Muslim women’s rights vis-à-vis human rights to shed light on gender politics in the modernization of the nation and to ponder over the role of Islam in gender inequality across different Muslim countries.

scholarly journals Blasphemy Law as a Structural Violence: A Challenge for Maintaining Sustainable Peace

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cekli Setya Pratiwi ◽  
Sidik Sunaryo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
International Community ◽  
Peace Studies ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
The Right

Abstract Blasphemy law (BL) has become a central issue for the international community in various parts of the world in the last three decades. In almost every case involving the BL, especially in Muslim countries, such as Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia, they are always responded with violence or threats of attack that cause many victims, loss of homes, damage to places of worship, evictions, stigma of being heretical, severe punishments, or extra-judicial killings. When international human rights law (IHLR) and declaration of the right to peace are adopted by the international community, at the same time, the number of violence related to the application of BL continues to increase. This paper aims to examine the ambiguity of the concept of the BL in Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how its lead to the weak of enforcement that creates social injustice and inequality. Then, referring to Galtung’s theory of structural violence and other experts of peace studies, this paper argues that blasphemy law should be included as a form of structural violence. Therefore its challenges these States to reform their BL in which its provisions accommodate the state’s neutrality and content high legal standards. Thus, through guarantee the fully enjoyment of human rights for everyone may support the States to achieve sustainable peace.

The Real Essence of Testing

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Handly ◽  
Sheryl Gillikin Jordan ◽  
Omer A. Awan
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
Real Essence

BAHALA NA: In Search of an “Ordinary Theology” for the Filipino Diaspora

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-252
Author(s):  
Rowan Lopez Rebustillo
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Catholic Theology ◽  
The Real ◽  
Filipino Diaspora ◽  
The World ◽  
Filipino Migrants ◽  
Real Essence

Abstract In the contemporary theological landscape Filipino theology has remained marginal compared to Latin-American theologies. Hence, this paper attempts to present Bahala Na as a Filipino articulation of Astley’s Ordinary Theology in the context of Filipino diaspora. With this, we assert that the importance of ordinary Filipino migrants’ input in the current theological enterprise cannot be overlooked because the churches in the world are now phenomenally populated by the millions of Filipinos who possess a unique faith that has sustained them amidst the precariousness of their diasporic life. We believe that ignorance of this inculturated theology is ignorance of the real essence of “catholic” theology.

scholarly journals Virginity Test in Police Recruitment System: Evidence from Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 2600-2611
Author(s):  
Manotar Tampubolon
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Women Empowerment ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
Evolutionary Advantage ◽  
Recruitment System ◽  
Virginity Testing

It is difficult for women to become police officers in Indonesia. One of the mandatory requirements is to become a virgin. Women who are no longer virgins cannot pass the selection. However, if the woman's hymen is damaged not because of sexual intercourse but because of an accident, she still hopes to become a police officer. This study aims to examine the virgin criteria as a requirement to become a policewoman in Indonesia. This quantitative study examines the virginity for police admission based on virginity requirements from a human rights perspective and the concept of innocence. Inspired by the idea of purity from Hanne Blank that celibacy does not reflect a known biological necessity and provides no demonstrable evolutionary advantage. This article says that police virginity testing is not essential and makes up discrimination of women's opportunity to become a police officer because there is no correlation between virginity and police duty. This article evaluates this activity performed Indonesian police force from the lights of human rights. It criticizes the policy development specification of Indonesia which is even poor than India and Muslim countries as even in this country women empowerment is prioritized and respected. This country is needed to incorporate changes in this policy.

scholarly journals Education in rights and citizenship instruction: epistemic elucidation as from Paulo Freire

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-28
Author(s):  
Ana Beatriz Albuquerque Bento ◽  
Fernando Da Silva Cardoso
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Performance ◽  
Education In Brazil

Education is undoubtedly a factor that contributes decisively to human development. In this sense, the present study searches to evaluate, based on freirean assumptions, the contemporary scenario of education in Brazil and its reflexes in society. From a historical and structural analysis, the problems that are established as impasses to a contextualized, plural and accessible education are put in check, as we think new paths, from the epistemology of Paulo Freire, for the real performance of students in human rights and citizenship.

scholarly journals Francisco suárez on the object of the metaphysics

2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-86
Author(s):  
Predrag Milidrag
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
Actual Existence ◽  
Francisco Suarez ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Real Essence ◽  
Objective Concept

For Su?rez, the object of the metaphysics is being insofar as it is real being (ens reale). In order to explain this, the author analyzes Su?rez?s notions of formal and objective concept (conceptus formalis, conceptus objectivus). Su?rez finds that the primary feature of the objective concept of being is its unity; nevertheless that does not imply the univocal concept of being because the objective concept of being is applied on its instances on diverse ways. When considering what is being (ens), Su?rez makes the difference between being taken as a noun and being taken as a participle. The later one signifies everything actually existing; being as a noun signifies everything which have the real essence (essentia realis), with actual existence or without it. The real essence he defines as something that is not repugnant to actual existence and which is not a figment of mind. The objective concept of being is a result of precisive abstraction and encompass all real essences, actual as well as non-actual. As such, for Su?rez, it is the object of the metaphysics as a science.

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