Syria tests new Islamic human rights group
As Syria continues to burn under leader Bashar Assad’s Hama 2.0 operation, all hope seems fixed solely on the United Nations Security Council. However, far from New York, the world’s newest human rights organization is in a position to take the next pivotal move to defuse the crisis if it so chooses.
Receiving little attention in June, the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), formerly known as the Organization of the Islamic Conference, set up its new human rights body, the OIC Commission on Human Rights (OICCHR). Having sorted out its ministerial minutiae as late as July, the fledgling 18-member commission faces an urgent and unmistakable legitimacy test: naming and shaming the ongoing violence Mr.… Seguir leyendo »