JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly rejected the resolution on “protection against discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity” adopted during the recently concluded 32nd Session of the Human Rights Council.
While reaffirming OIC’s strong commitment to combating all forms of violence and discrimination against any person or group on any ground, OIC Secretary General Iyad Ameen Madani reiterated OIC’s firm stance that the notion of sexual orientation is alien to the international human rights norms and standards as well as against the fundamental precepts of not only Islamic but many other religious and cultural societies.
Pushing and adoption of this resolution, particularly the establishment of an independent expert to promote and protect this topic, amounts to imposing one set of values and preferences on the rest of the world and counteracts the fundamentals of universal human rights that call for respecting diversity, national and regional particularities and various historical, cultural and religious backgrounds; as clearly set out in various international human rights instruments, he added.
Madani appreciated the good work done by the OIC Ambassadorial Group in Geneva that took lead in spearheading the opposition against this resolution and aptly explained the non-relevance of this subject to the international human rights discourse during its presentation.
OIC firmly rejects HRC resolution
OIC firmly rejects HRC resolution
