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Nigeria: Country, OIC, Move Against Religious Defamation
by Chioma Gabriel https://www.legal-project.org/543/nigeria-country-oic-move-against-religious Excerpt: Nigeria amongst other African countries and Organisation of Islamic Countries, OIC, is proposing what human rights organisations have described as a potentially dangerous bill to the United Nations on "defamation of religion . The bill was sent to the Ad Hoc Committee for the Elaboration of Complementary Standards in advance of the second session taking place in Geneva from 19 to 30 October 2009 The OIC is proposing the development of "new binding normative standards relating to religious ideas, objects and positions while incorporating contemporary issues" such as "defamation of religions, religious personalities, holy books, scriptures and symbols"; "provocative portrayals of objects of religious veneration as a malicious violation of the spirit of tolerance"; "prohibition of the publication of gratuitously offensive attacks on matters regarded as sacred by the followers of any religion and ; "abuse of the right to freedom of expression in the context of racio-religious profiling". Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: United Nations receive the latest by email: subscribe to the legal project's free mailing list Note: The content of external articles does not necessarily reflect the views of The Legal Project. |
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