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This paper basically emphasized on critical review on the relationship between religion and human rights either in protection or violation of human rights. This is about the place of religion in human rights provision and the place of human rights provision in religion. The basic elements of the reviews are the place of religion in human rights: can religious value promoting human rights? The negative facets of religion to human rights: is religion an impediment to human rights promotion? Freedom of religion and religious choice, equality and non-discrimination gender distinctions, capital punishment framework, the place of human rights in the promotion religion the negative aspects of human rights in religion: is the human rights threat to religion? And religions and the international human rights instruments. To address this issues the utilized method was document analysis and related literatures on the issue in hand.
Human Rights and Religion: Perspectives and Retrospectives
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Human rights discourse has been viewed and debated from different perspectives. There exist different viewpoints to understand human rights concept. Western people viewed human rights which emancipate individuals from state, Africans and Asians observed human rights as a means which emancipates them from socio, economic and cultural suppression. But diverse perspectives are connected to a common concept called 'negative freedom'. It means human rights ensure 'individualism' as well as 'liberalism'. But when it comes to the issues of religion and its implications with human rights there is hardly any debate, we can find, in the human rights literature. Therefore, the present paper focuses on the relationship between human rights and religion and explores several theses and counter theses. One school of thought argues that absolute practice of human rights can be ensured through the exclusion of religion. Contrarily, another school of thought believes that both are mutually inclusive. In this regard, the paper analyses the core debates of both schools of thought in the western literature context and argues that the nature of the relationship between human rights and religion remains dialectical.
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In practical terms, religion and human rights are understood to be performing similar functions in respect of human development. The relationship between religion and human rights is on one side problematic and on the other, unavoidable in all parts of the world (as religion is a universal phenomenon). Broadly defined, religion involves what is sacred and transcends human knowledge. Human rights which seek to provide assorts of protection has also developed to received global attention. Human rights norms are inherently abstract ideals which depend on the visions and values of human communities to get its content and coherence. Traditional African concept of man emphasizes the spiritual dimension of human rights that must be heeded to. Western thought of 'human rights' seems to emphasise the 'rights' rather' than the 'human'. Human rights consist of two categories (human and rights) which need equal concentration. In view of this the paper explores the in...
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Peace and security have always been considered as one of man’s concerns. The basis of peace and security should be sought in the theoretical foundations. However, the drafters of universal human rights have struggled to attain peace and security away from religious principles. The present article intends to introduce universal human rights in the light of religious teachings and elaborate on the related religious principles. It also deals with the distinctions between the principles governing the present world with regard to human rights and religious principles to show that if religious principles are seriously followed in the international relations, they will bring about perpetual peace and security for mankind. Therefore, Religion has a unique role in peace and security.
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The idea of human rights embodies the moral outlook and aspirations of modernity. It is through the language of human rights that political obligations are established and articulated, and it is through the language of human rights that an account of human nature and personhood is given meaning and form. The language of human rights is our common moral vocabulary. As Michael Perry writes, "the morality of human rights-that is, the morality that grounds the law of human rights-has become the dominant morality of our time; indeed, unlike any morality before it, the morality of human rights has become a truly global morality."' The idea of human rights, in this respect, embodies more than simply a system of legal norms. It rather represents, more elementally, a morality that aims to transcend all particular commitments and to serve as the basis of a shared moral order. The language of human rights, argues Upendra Baxi, has become a discourse that seeks "to supplant all other ethical languages."2 The idea of human rights, particularly the underlying idea of human dignity, is replete with echoes of the sacred. The Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, for instance, opens with a reference to the "inherent dignity ... of all