"Politicizing human rights"

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OP - March 11, 2015, 03:29 PM

https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4843/saudi-arabia-accuses-international-media-of-politicising-human-rights

I just came across this link via twitter and I discovered that...

Wow, authoritarian governments around the world do think alike, isn't it amazing...

My "motherland" had not so long ago declared that they were against 人权问题政治化 ("politicizing human rights") regarding the issue of human rights violation in North Korea. They were also against 人权问题政治化 when the world demanded them to release people they jailed for activism.

I wonder who invented it first - the claim that human rights shouldn't be political. I mean, seriously? How do they even hold a straight face?! Maybe the first to use it should claim for intellectual property rights.
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Reply #1 - March 11, 2015, 05:34 PM

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The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI) is a declaration of the member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference adopted in Cairo, Egypt, in 1990,[1] which provides an overview on the Islamic perspective on human rights, and affirms Islamic sharia as its sole source. CDHRI declares its purpose to be "general guidance for Member States [of the OIC] in the field of human rights".

This declaration is widely acknowledged as an Islamic response to the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted in 1948. It guarantees many of the same rights as the UDHR (cf. liberal Islam), while at the same time reaffirming the inequalities inherent in Islamic law and tradition in terms of religion, gender, sexuality, political rights, and other aspects of contemporary society at odds with Islamic law and traditions.

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Reply #2 - March 11, 2015, 05:56 PM

I want to know a) the definition of "politicizing human rights", and what the problems are with that, and b) what the alternative is and why it would be better.

I'm so fucking tired of hearing stupidity with the estupidos not having to own up or explain themselves.... on the other hand, my experience tells me it's futile to even try."Politicizing human rights" is an expression void of any meaning, it means nothing. It is a made up word used for entirely other reasons than conveying an actual real and existing philosophical, ideological or political stance in the particular issue at hand. The word "islamophobe" is more or less as stupid and meaningless.

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