The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Human Rights

Abstract

The book offers an assessment of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) involvement in the global human rights system, from its establishment in 1969 until the present. It applies various analytical methods to the role the OIC has or has not played in developing the human rights system within its institutions and member states, as well as international forums and mechanisms. The book presents its arguments on the basis of a more balanced understanding of the political, social, cultural, and economic structures that constitute its member states, and a broader understanding of the issues that prevent the adoption of the human rights regime within the Organisation and available opportunities for advancement. However, the book may be critiqued in that all its contributors have studied and worked in Western universities and international institutions and, thus, are affected by the liberal Western human rights scheme.