The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Human Rights / / ed. by Marie Juul Petersen, Turan Kayaoglu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• MitwirkendeR: Azhar, Hirah,; Baderin, Mashood A.,; Chase, Anthony Tirado,; Cismas, Ioana,; Fegiery, Moataz El,; Kayaoglu, Turan,; Lestra, Martin,; Mayer, Ann Elizabeth,; Mencütek, Zeynep Şahin,; Monshipouri, Mahmood,; Petersen, Marie Juul,; Skorini, Heini í,; Tok, M. Evren,
• HerausgeberIn: Kayaoglu, Turan,; Petersen, Marie Juul,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 2 illus.

Established in 1969, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is an intergovernmental organization the purpose of which is the strengthening of solidarity among Muslims. Headquartered in Jeddah, the OIC today consists of fifty seven states from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The OIC's longevity and geographic reach, combined with its self-proclaimed role as the United Nations of the Muslim world, raise certain expectations as to its role in global human rights politics. However, to date, these hopes have been unfulfilled. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Human Rights sets out to demonstrate the potential and shortcomings of the OIC and the obstacles on the paths it has navigated.Historically, the OIC has had a complicated relationship with the international human rights regime. Palestinian self-determination was an important catalyst for the founding of the OIC, but the OIC did not develop a comprehensive human rights approach in its first decades. In fact, human rights issues were rarely, if at all, mentioned at the organization's summits or annual conferences of foreign ministers. Instead, the OIC tended to focus on protecting Islamic holy sites and strengthening economic cooperation among member states. As other international and regional organizations expanded the international human rights system in the 1990s, the OIC began to pay greater attention to human rights, although not always in a manner that aligned with Western conceptions.This volume provides essential empirical and theoretical insights into OIC practices, contemporary challenges to human rights, intergovernmental organizations, and global Islam. Essays by some of the world's leading scholars examine the OIC's human rights activities at different levels—in the UN, the organization's own institutions, and at the member-state level—and assess different aspects of the OIC's approach, identifying priority areas of involvement and underlying conceptions of human rights.Contributors: Hirah Azhar, Mashood A. Baderin, Anthony Tirado Chase, Ioana Cismas, Moataz El Fegiery, Turan Kayaoglu, Martin Lestra, Ann Elizabeth Mayer, Mahmood Monshipouri, Marie Juul Petersen, Zeynep Şahin-Mencütek, Heiní Skorini, M. Evren Tok.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. FOUNDATIONS -- Chapter 1. Setting the Scene -- Chapter 2. The Human Rights Agenda of the OIC: Between Pessimism and Optimism -- Chapter 3. The OIC’s Human Rights Regime -- PART II. INTERVENTIONS: RIGHTS AND VALUES -- Chapter 4. The OIC’s Human Rights Policies in the UN: A Problem of Coherence -- Chapter 5. The OIC and Freedom of Expression: Justifying Religious Censorship Norms with Human Rights Language -- Chapter 6. Competing Perceptions: Traditional Values and Human Rights -- Chapter 7. The Position of the OIC on Abortion: Not Too Bad, Ugly, or Just Confusing? -- Chapter 8. The OIC and Children’s Rights -- PART III. INTERSECTIONS: CONFLICTS AND COOPERATION -- Chapter 9. The OIC and Conflict Resolution: Norms and Practical Challenges -- Chapter 10. Fragmented Aid: The Institutionalization of the OIC’s Foreign Aid Framework -- Chapter 11. Governance of Refugees in the OIC -- Chapter 12. The OIC and Civil Society Cooperation: Prospects for Strengthened Human Rights Involvement? -- Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments