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Pakistani Lawyer’s Plight Shows Need for Robust Judiciary
January 03, 2019
The plight of Pakistani attorney Saif ul Malook, who has defended the most well-known victims of accusations of blasphemy against Islam in the Southwest Asian country, underscores the globalization of Islamist threats to religious and speech freedoms in the absence of robust and independent judicial structures committed to universal human rights.
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OIC Seeks "Islamic Human Rights" as Counter to UDHR
January 03, 2019
Activists are calling for an upgrade in support, capacity, and legitimacy of international judicial institutions that can respond to critiques about the implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which is promoting an alternative “Islamic human rights” model for Muslims worldwide.
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Turkish Government Eyes Another Round of Military Purges
January 03, 2019
Metin Gurcan reports that the continuing sectarian struggle between Turkey's Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and its former base supporter, the Islamist grassroots Gulenist organization now deemed a terrorist organization by the AKP, is likely to lead to another round of purges of suspected Gulenists from Turkey’s military.
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Al Shabaab Presence Looms Over Somalia's Upcoming Elections
January 03, 2019
The presence of Islamist extremist group al Shabaab is looming over upcoming elections for regional president in Somalia, as the country's Ministry of Internal Security arrested a former Shabaab leader-turned-candidate on suspicion of weapons trafficking and as the jihadist group continues operations aimed at capturing control in the country.
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UN Will Begin Investigation of IS Genocide in Iraq
January 03, 2019
The UN has announced that its investigation team sent to Iraq to investigate Islamic State (IS) war crimes and crimes against humanity rising to the level of genocide against the Iraq's Yazidi minority community will begin at the start of 2019.
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