International colloquium "Islam in international human rights law".

Faculté de droit et de science politique, amphithéâtre C, bât. 1 - 39 rue de l'Université, 34060 Montpellier.

While a great deal of research has been carried out on the place of human rights in Islam, there has been little work on Islam in international human rights law, despite the fact that this is a crucial issue involving the tension between the universality of rights and the discourse of specificity.

This symposium project was prompted by two observations: firstly, a discrepancy between, on the one hand, the recurrence of caricatured discourse on Islam, often considered contrary to the ideology of human rights, and, on the other hand, the adherence of Arab-Muslim states to international treaties for the protection of human rights, or even the development of an Arab-Muslim system for the protection of rights; secondly, the spectacular development of litigation relating to Islam in the jurisprudence of human rights protection bodies.

Increasingly, international protection bodies are having to question the conventionality of practices and mechanisms derived from Islamic law. Suffice it to mention the major Refah Partisi v. Turkey judgment handed down by the European Court of Human Rights in 2003 on the compatibility of Sharia law with the values enshrined in the Convention.

This event, which is intended to be multi-disciplinary, even if it will retain a predominantly legal dimension, will provide an opportunity for wide-ranging and critical reflection on the links between Islam and international human rights law.

The aim is to go beyond the mere confrontation between the principles of Islam and international human rights law in Islam, which obviously remains essential. The aim is to contribute to reflection on solutions that - without denying the oppositions that may exist here - highlight relations based on mutual enrichment and complementarity.

The contribution of practitioners who are members of international control bodies will give a concrete dimension to the ideas and proposals put forward.

Further information

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• Download the registration form to be returned no later than October 20, 2018.