The international conference, which discusses human rights issues from an Islamic perspective, is organized by the Institute for the protection of women's Rights.
The event brought together Muslim rights activists to highlight the importance of human rights from an Islamic perspective compared to the Western narrative.
The conference aims to present an Islamic model for human rights and to prepare an academic ground for eliminating the hegemony of Western human rights and distancing from inaction in the face of this reality.
The Islamic Human Rights Conference will discuss three major themes – Foundations, Concepts, Distinctive features and Priorities.
Iranian and foreign scholars present their articles to the conference which discuss common points and the points of difference as well as the advantages of Islamic human rights in comparison to the dominating Western human rights doctrine.
The Charter of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), an international organization founded in 1969 to which all Muslim countries belong, stated in its preamble that the members were “reaffirming their commitment to the UN Charter and fundamental human rights.”
The OIC charter came into force in 1973. In 1990, however, the OIC issued the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, which diverged significantly from international human-rights standards; it was not made clear how this declaration was to be reconciled with the conflicting obligations undertaken by OIC members in ratifying international human-rights covenants or in their individual constitutional rights provisions, which in many cases corresponded to the international norms.
Today “secular” discourses in the Muslim world are widely discredited and viewed as inauthentic. Thus, contemporary Muslim human rights scholars have attempted to anchor human rights discourses within an Islamic paradigm; that is, the universal is particularized within the dominant idiom of Muslim societies.
