Articles and Issues

Contemporary Issues

• Basic International Documents on Human Rights:
  • UN Human Rights Council Resolution 16/18 on combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of, and discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against, persons based on religion or belief
  • UN General Assembly Resolution 66/167 on combating intolerance, negative stereotyping, stigmatization, discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against persons, based on religion or belief
  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• Report of the Turkish National Commission of Inquiry on the Israeli Attack on the Humanitarian Aid Convoy to Gaza on 31 May 2010
• Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict (Goldstone Report) Human Rights in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories
• UNWRA Report on Poverty in Occupied Palestine
  Poverty in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
• Report by European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
  Data in Focus Report: Muslims
• Report by Human Rights First
  2008 Hate Crime Survey: Violence Against Muslims
• International Conference on Terrorism: Dimensions, Threats and Countermeasures
  (Tunis, 15-17 November 2007)
  Concluding Observations of the Chair
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:
  Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Doudou Diène, on the Manifestations of Defamation of Religions and in particular on the Serious Implications of Islamophobia on the Enjoyment of All Rights
• Reports by European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC):
  • “Muslims in the European Union: Discrimination and Islamophobia”
  • "Perceptions of Discrimination and Islamophobia: Voices from Members of Muslim Communities in the European Union"
• Reports of OSCE-ODIHR NGO Roundtables on Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims:
  • Report of the OSCE-ODIHR Roundtable on Addressing Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims: Youth and Education (Vienna, 17 December 2008)
  • Report of OSCE-ODIHR Roundtable :The Representation of Muslims in Public Discourse (Warsaw, 9 May 2006) 
  • Report of OSCE-ODIHR Roundtable Meeting with NGOs Addressing Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims (Warsaw, 27 September 2005)
• Challenging stereotypes in Europe and the Islamic world, Wilton Park Conference 

OIC Documents

• Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam
• OIC Convention on Combating Terrorism
• Islamophobia 

Articles

• Euro-Muslims and Faces of Islamophobia in Europe. Prof. Talip Kucukcan, Political, Economic and Social Research Foundation
• Preventing and Responding to Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes. Keynote Speech by Ambassador (R) Ömür Orhun, Adviser and Special Envoy of the OIC Secretary General at the Roundtable organized by COJEP International, within the context of OSCE 2009 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
• Islamohobia. Contribution by Ambassador (R) Ömür Orhun, Adviser and Special Envoy of the OIC Secretary General at the OSCE 2009 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
• Combating Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims​.Rtd. Ambassador Ömür Orhun
• Full text of the interview of the Secretary General with the Danish Daily Jyllands Posten. Published on 28 October 2008
• Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims (Islamophobia). Ambassador (R) Ömür Orhun, Adviser and Special Envoy of the Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (oic), article published in Security and Human Rights Magazine, Netherlands Helsinki Committee, Vol. 20, No. 3, Sep. 2009, pp.192-200. 
• Intolerance and Discrimination against Muslims. Ufuk Gokcen, Adviser to the Secretary General of the OIC

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