Islamic Bloc Wants to Set Up its Own Human Rights Body

by Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com
April 13, 2009

http://www.legal-project.org/article/266

Excerpt:

 (CNSNews.com) – A bloc of the world's Islamic states, which has been accused of undermining human rights at the United Nations, is planning to establish its own "independent human rights commission."
 
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the 57-nation bloc of Muslim nations at the U.N., held a conference Sunday at its headquarters in Saudi Arabia to discuss the plan.
 
OIC Secretary-General Eklemeddin Ihsanoglu in a speech stressed that "human rights and man's dignity are an integral part of Islam and core components of Islamic culture and heritage," according to an OIC statement.

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