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See also the following sections of this website:

• Universality of human rights: General
• 'Asian values' & human rights

United Nations seminar:

U.N. seminar: Islamic Perspectives on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Nov. 1998):

• Enriching the Universality of Human Rights: Islamic Perspectives on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Opening address of the Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference [Bismillahi Arrahman Arrahim] to the seminar

• Personal impressions of the seminar by Mary Robinson, High Commissioner for Human Rights

• Islam and human rights [commenting on the United Nations seminar] (Heba Samir, Al-Ahram Weekly, 19-25 Nov. 1998)

Other materials:

2002:

Islam compatible to democracy: Scholars (A'an Suryana, Jakarta Post, 20 Mar. 2002)

2001:

Ayatollah Khamenei calls for religious leaders to fight environmental degradation at the International Seminar on Environment, Religion and Culture (Ling Wu Kong, Earth Times News Service, 24 June 2001)

Universal Human Rights and Cultural Diversity: A review of Human Rights: New Perspectives, New Realities, edited by Adamantia Pollis and Peter Schwaberger (Hilde Hey, Human Rights & Human Welfare, Apr. 2001)

2000:

Islam and Human Rights: Beyond the Universality Debate (Abdullahi A. An-Na'im, report presented to American Society of International Law conference, Apr. 2000)

Tensions Between Islamic Law and Human Rights from the Perspective of Comparative Law (Christina Jones-Pauly, Ph.D., Dr. jur., Aug. 1999, updated 2000)

Antecedents of the Idea of Human Rights: A Survey of Perspectives (Polly Vizard, UNDP Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development Background Paper, U.N. Development Programme, 2000)

1998:

International Aspects of the Arab Human Rights Movement: An Interdisciplinary Discussion Held in Cairo in March 1998 (organised by Harvard Law School Human Rights Program and Center for the Study of Developing Countries at Cairo University, Mar. 1998)

1997:

Islam and Human Rights: Tensions and Possible Cooperation: The Case of Indonesia (Muhammad AS Hikam, Asia Foundation, Feb. 1997)

Islam and Justice: Debating the Future of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa (Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Jan. 1997)

1995:

Muslim Voices in the Human Rights Debate (Heiner Bielefeldt, Human Rights Quarterly, 1995)