Posted by: zanshin, 2007-10-11 12:33

Statement
Note: If you want to develop this Statement into an Argumentation, you have to fill in the Title box of this Statement.
Date: 2007-03-30 (Friday)
United Nations Human Rights Council member Pakistan proposed a new resolution on the need to combat the “defamation of religions”.

After voicing concern at “attempts to identify Islam with terrorism, violence and human-rights violations.”

The resolution noted "with deep concern the intensification of the campaign of defamation of religions, and the ethnic and religious profiling of Muslim minorities, in the aftermath of the tragic events of 11 September 2001."

It urged states "to take resolute action to prohibit the dissemination including through political institutions and organisations of racist and xenophobic ideas and material aimed at any religion or its followers that constitute incitement to racial and religious hatred, hostility or violence ... "

It goes on to say that free expression should be exercised “with responsibility”, and may be limited in regard to “public health and morals”, and, worse still, “respect for religions and beliefs”.

Of the 17 members of the Organisation of Islamic Conference on the council, all but one voted for the resolution, along with China, Russia and South Africa. Fourteen Western countries voted against, including all eight EU states, plus Japan, Ukraine and South Korea (home of the UN's new secretary-general). Nine countries, all from the developing world, abstained.






Comments


No comments yet.

Please login to post your comment.












All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Stories, Arguments and Comments are owned by the Poster.
The Rest copyright © 2007 Argumentations.com. All rights reserved. Argumentations.com provides material for research or educational purposes only. We do not warrant the correctness of its contents. The risk from using it lies entirely with the user. While using this site, you agree to have read and accepted our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Argumentations.com is far from perfect so if you have any critiques, questions, comments or problems about this site please tell us. Click here to send your feedback. And if you like Argumentations.com please link to this site. It will really help a lot.
   

Tags

9/11,   China,   EU,   Health,   Islam,   Japan,   Pakistan,   religion,   Russia,   South Africa,   South Korea,   Terrorism,   Ukraine,   UNHRC,   United Nations,  

Related stories

Related arguments

No results

View other suggested statements

Date 
2007-09-27 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice opened a conference of the world's 16 biggest emitters of ...
The G20 consists of China, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesi...
2007-09-20 The members of the IAEA 35-nation board of governors are Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Australia, ...
2003 The U.S., Russia, the European Union and the United Nations work out a "road map for peace.&...
2004-10-01 Ayman al-Zawahiri urges Muslims to mount worldwide resistance to "crusader America" and...
2008-01-05 North Korea nuclear talks stalled amid disputes

North Korea said it had been forced to slow co...
2004 Many countries, including China, India, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, South Africa, the US, a...
1945-09-09 The Japanese in S. Korea, Taiwan, China and Indochina surrendered to Allies...
The 21 APEC members are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Sou...
1992 Joint declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula
2005-09 N Korea nuclear agreement
2007-02-13 The United States, North Korea, China, Japan, South Korea and Russia reached an agreement that ga...
2004-05 Proposal for North-East Asian Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
2003-03-31 Frank Koza, chief of staff in the 'Regional Targets' section of the NSA sent a memo with orders t...
The veto of the (current) "permanent five" (= USA, China, Russia, Britain, France) in t...
2008-09-27 “More and more questions are being raised as to what is going on in Afghanistan. First and foremo...
1996-09 The Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, compromised of the Group of Ten...
2008-11-13 "Terrorism and criminality are the enemies of every religion and every civilization. They wo...
2009-02-15 / 2009-02-22 Asia trip of USA Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton
2006-01-30 The Quartet's three conditions that a Palestinian Authority government needs to accept to gain in...
2007-02-21 The Quartet principals meet in Berlin
2007 Japan is now China's third largest trade partner, after the EU and U.S....
2007-03-21 "We are talking about no more than 10 interceptors. ... They would have no effect against th...
2006 (Early in 2006)
The EU's human rights commissioner Alvaro Gil-Robles's criticized a plan to reva...
2006-01 Russia's Gazprom blocks gas supplies to Ukraine
In Pakistan, anyone accused of insulting Islam, Muhammad or the Koran can be sentenced to death. ...
Out of 57 members of the Organization of Islamic Conference, 31 are classified by the United Nati...
2007-02-11 "Russia is determined to enhance cooperation with the Islamic world". As a multi-ethnic...
2006-06-26 "Anybody who cares about greater peace and stability in the world knows that a lasting and e...
1997-12-11 The Kyoto Protocol is adopted at the third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framew...
2006-11-01 Myanm's army is supplied by China, Russia and Ukraine ...
2005 Pakistan had played a key role in helping Russia get the Observer status in the Organisation of I...
2006-11-01 According to Vyacheslav Nikonov, In the "multipolar" world order that is shaping up, which may in...
1950-06-25 The Korean War started as forces from the communist North invaded the South. It lasted till 1953....
1950-06-25 / 1953-07-27 The Korean War
2006 North Korea's nuclear weapons development is a common threat to Japan, China and South Korea...
2006 China supports the South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon as the next U.N. secretary-general...
1902-03-20 France and Russia acknowledged the Anglo-Japanese alliance, but asserted their right to protect t...
2007-12-31 The US has said North Korea has failed to provide a complete declaration of its nuclear activitie...
2008-01-15 400 Islamic extremists in South Waziristan, Sararogha area in Pakistan atacked a security forces ...
2004 In South Waziristan, Pakistan, Abdullah Mehsud, an old Banuri Masjid (Karachi) warrior, kidnappe...
2004 In Balochistan, Pakistan, a car bomb killed three Chinese engineers out of the 500 employed at th...
2003-09 Israel's security cabinet says it has decided to send Yasser Arafat into exile, calling him part ...
2002-11 “Immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling . . . You are a nation that pe...
2005-09 The European Court of Human Rights affirmed a Turkish court's conviction of a publisher for issui...
2005-10-25 "Some call this evil Islamic radicalism; others, militant Jihadism; still others, Islamo-fas...
2006-08 "There's a definite urge – don't you have it? – to say, 'The Muslim community will have to s...
2001-10-16 if some people commit terrorism using the concepts and symbols of Islam, Christianity and Judaism...
2002 "[T]he attack on the United States was a desperate symbol of the isolation, fragmentation an...
2008-03-28 "On behalf of the European Parliament I fully reject the interpretation contained in the fil...
1953 "This merging of religion and politics was a major characteristic of the Islamic world in it...
2008-02-02 As I travel in moderate Muslim states in North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia, I ask head...
In many Muslim nations, the most repressed groups are not Christians but other Muslims.
Examples...
2006-01-17 International terrorism does not exist
2007-07-25 Islamic militants fired a barrage of rockets into a city in northwest Pakistan early Wednesday, k...
2000-06 "The Korean peninsula is surrounded by the four powers of the United States, Japan, China an...
1988 Preparating for Jihad (“Al-Omda fi Edad El-Edda”)
2007-12-17 Ninety international delegations from Israel, Palestine, United States, EU, Russia, Britain, Germ...
2003-03 Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM), who allegedly orchestrated the 9/11 terrorist strikes by Al-Qaeda i...
2007 China has territorial claims against 11 of its 24 neighbors, including Russia, India, Japan, Viet...
2006-12-18 “I saw extremely similar behavior and extremely similar problems in an Islamic insurgency in West...
2007-07-12 In Pakistan, President General Pervez Musharraf told the nation that his government would not all...
China has become the third-largest nuclear power producer in Asia. Only Japan and South Korea gen...
2000-07 Clinton and Putin Meet at G-8 Summit
2007-07 In Pakistan, 15,000 madrassas have been brought under the new regime of imparting “worldly subjec...
2003-03-30 Roadmap for Middle East Peace
1985 An Air India flight exploded off the coast of Ireland.
Of the 329 victims, 280 were Canadian cit...
2001 President Musharraf's government supports the United States-led campaign against Afghanistan and ...
2004-07-12 United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today named Pakistan's current Ambassador to the Unit...
2003-05 The United States declares Batasuna a terrorist group. The European Union follows suit a month la...
1979 / 1985 The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) using Pakistan's military Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)...
2007-07-19 "The Islamic system takes action wherever the state fails. And in Pakistan the state has col...
2007-08-09 Pakistan Senate Foreign Relations Committee has already adopted a resolution demanding – that Pak...
Pakistan cooperates with the United States and NATO in the war against terrorism...
2007-08-17 The situation in Pakistan is very dangerous given the consequences if Islamic extremists take pow...
2007-08-17 "Russia wants to use the SCO for its anti-Western (aims) but the others will not allow it.&q...
2007-09-07 [R]adicalization among young Muslims is growing rapidly.
-- Edwin Bakker, head of the security a...
2007-09-07 In the Netherlands, there have been official reports indicating that the public debate has an imp...
2007-09-07 The best way to fight terrorism is with good intelligence services. [ ... ] But with radicalizati...
2006-09 China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) conducted an unprecedentedly large 10-day exercise, involv...
2007-08-17 Russia and China executed joint military exercises on Russia’s soil near the Urals Mountain city ...
2002-10 The European Union added Jose Maria Sison to its terror list....
2007-09-09 Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged in Sydney that he would stake his job on getting parlia...
2007-09-07 "Because of the rapid development of the Asia-Pacific region, APEC can be called the most pr...
2007-09-07 “The UK has been ruined by the puritanism of the Deobandis. You’ve allowed the takeover of the mo...
2007-09-03 ElBaradei: That's my greatest concern, a horror scenario. I'm not thinking about a nuclear weapon...
2007-09-13 "Taiwan is an independent sovereign state, whose sovereignty is vested in its 23 million cit...
2004 John Bolton, undersecretary for arms control at the State Department, told the United Nations tha...
2007-09-18 "China and Russia's foreign intelligence services are among the most aggressive in collectin...
2005-07-07 London subway bombings.
Three of the four bombers involved were of Pakistani descent...
2006-09 Radical British Muslims said Pope Benedict should be executed for "insulting" the Proph...
2007-10-01 Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali returned to the Netherlands as united States' authorities had refuse...
Salafism is one of the fastest growing religious movements in the world...
Salafism represents the only 'pure' Islam...
PKK is listed as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union....
2007-09-15 Dutch authorities have arrested a member of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) wanted in F...
2004-05 Ayaan Hirsi Ali swore off Islam and all religion....
Benazir Bhutto was the first female leader of an Islamic nation....
2007-10-19 "Muslims do not accept that one can discuss the Koran in depth, because they say it was writ...
2006-02 Bombing of the Samjhauta Express, a train service running between India and Pakistan. The attack ...
1989-01 “Mr President [= Mikhail Gorbachev], I cannot tell you exactly when it will happen – probably wi...
In Iran, the general population is “hostages” of the mullahs...
2003-12 Two attempts to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. ...
2007-12-08 In Pakistan, gunmen kill three people in an attack on one of Benazir Bhutto's party offices.
...
2007-10-30 In Pakistan, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint several hundred yards from the GHQ ...
2007-11-24 In Rawalpindi, Pakistan, a car reached the outer gate of the ISI and the driver blew himself up w...
2007-09-04 In Rawalpindi, Pakistan, a suicide attacker blew himself up after boarding a bus carrying ISI emp...
2002-03 In Islamabad, Pakistan, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a church frequented by the diplom...
2003 In Islamabad, Pakistan, assassination of Maulana Azam Tariq, the Amir of the Sipah-eSahaba, Pakis...
1989 In Rawalpindi, Pakistan, explosion in the office of Dr. Farooq Haider, the then President of one ...
2007-05-18 In Samara, Russia, the EU and Russia held a summit.

Organized under the auspices of Germany’s ...
2007 Over half of Russia’s exports go to the EU.
...
2007 The EU receives about a quarter of its oil and natural gas from Russia....
2007-02 In India, representatives from India, China and Russia met for a summit to promote international ...
2005-06 In Russia, representatives from India, China and Russia held a summit....
2007-12-27 Benazir Bhutto was shot in the neck and chest and killed as she got into her vehicle to leave the...
1951-10-16 Pakistan’s first prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated when he was addressing a gather...
1973-03-23 In Pakistan, a public opposition rally of Awami National Party leader led by Wali Khan at Liaquat...
2007-10-18 In Pakistan, a suicide bombing targeting Benazir Bhutto killed at least 130 people, turning her e...
Ukraine becomes member of the EU...
2007-11 In Turkey, seven young men went on trial for the kiling of three missionaries at a Bible publishi...
2007-02 In Turkey, Andrea Santoro, an Italian-Catholic priest, was shot dead in the Black Sea port city o...
2006-07 In Turkey, a “mentally disturbed” man stabbed French national Pierre Brunissen in the Black Sea c...
2007-12 India has become a major global player in carbon emissions — it is now number four in the world i...