It isn’t often that you hear about formal complaints to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) about the violation of women’s human rights occasioned by the Sharia. According to human rights activist Deepti Mahajan, who runs the Coalition CHINGARI, 80 signatories from the US, Canada, Israel, India, the UK, Austria, Australia, Netherlands, Russia, and South Africa signed a petition to the UN Human Rights Council (myself included).
CHINGARI advocates for Hindu girls and raises awareness about their abduction and forced conversion in Pakistan. The issue has been covered over the years at Jihad Watch. At least 1,000 Hindu and Christian girls are forcibly converted to Islam each year, despite growing awareness and even protests.
Mahajan stated that signatories include “Muslims, ex Muslim women and men, victims of Sharia, intellectuals, professors, journalists, and professionals.”
The complaint to the UNHRC was submitted in time for International Women’s Day, and the formal press release is below. You’ll notice the many themes covered by Jihad Watch on a regular basis. The UN Human Rights Council is “responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe,” according to its own website, but fails repeatedly. Click HERE for the UNHRC’s current membership.
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY PRESS NOTE
SHARIA FORMALLY CHALLENGED AS VIOLATING WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS (UN) HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Women, and men of all faiths from many countries, victims of terrorism, human rights defenders, professors, activists, and concerned persons have jointly and formally lodged a complaint before the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council on the gross, reliably attested, and continuing pattern of the violation of women’s human rights caused by Sharia.
The complaint is not Islamophobic as, according to the UN, “criticism of the ideas, leaders, symbols or practices of Islam” is not in itself Islamophobia, and “international human rights law protects individuals, not religions.” The complaint is on the thematic and transnational topic of continuing violation of women’s human rights caused by three related issues: (a) violence against women, (b) Sharia, and (c) aspects of Islamic culture. Based on extensive and irrefutable publicly available evidence, including UN documents and the lived experience of women affected by Sharia, it draws attention to Sharia’s incompatibility with international human rights law, especially the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) that came into force in 1981. Some non-exhaustive examples are as follows:
Violence against women: Sharia-linked violence is inflicted upon women in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
This includes the recent extreme sexual violence committed against Israeli women in October 2023 by Hamas proven by the UN; the infliction of sexual slavery on Yezidi women by the Islamic State (IS); killing of Iranian women for not wearing the hijab; the trafficking, kidnapping, and conversion of Coptic Christian girls in Egypt; kidnapping of girls and women in Nigeria by Boko Haram; mass attacks on women in Germany in 2015; the rape of girls in the UK by the so-called ‘grooming gangs’; the forced conversion, kidnapping and murder of Hindu girls in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to name a few.
Sharia: Statistical analysis demonstrates that 71% of the Qur’an’s text gives women lower status than men. In the Hadith, 91% of the text about women states that a woman has a lower status than a man. Key Qur’anic verses sanction male violence to compel a woman’s ‘obedience’; allow child marriage and polygamy, discriminate in inheritance, and prohibit a Muslim woman from marrying a non-Muslim.
Islamic culture: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is widespread in parts of the Islamic world. Immigration from Muslim countries has increased FGM in the West. Islamic culture compels Muslim women to undergo unnecessary surgery to restore their hymen. UN reports show how Islamic culture demeans women. Islamic culture impedes women’s education in some parts of the world and blocks advancement for educated Muslim women. Muslim women do not have equal opportunities to participate actively in sports and physical education and have poorer access to mosques as compared to Muslim men. Head coverings for Muslim women are linked to complex security, health, educational, cultural, and civilizational issues. Muslim leaders have also violated Muslim women’s reproductive right to choose the number of children by advocating the use of Muslim birth rates as a non-military strategy to conquer non-Muslim lands. Warnings have come from Ex-Muslim women because of this worldwide and continuing pattern of Sharia violating women’s human rights.
Action requested: The Human Rights Council should:
i. Request a single consolidated response from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), including one standardized, worldwide codification of the Sharia and an explanation as to why Sharia should not be considered a fundamental cause of violation of women’s human rights.
ii. Appoint two non-Muslim rapporteurs, one who is a Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief and the second, a Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, to mandate them to work in a coordinated manner and report to the Human Rights Council on the following issues:
a. Submit a thematic report on the elements of Sharia that discriminate against and have negatively impacted the lives of Muslim and non-Muslim women. The two rapporteurs should ensure that the views of ex-Muslim, reformist Muslim women, critics of Islam, and others impacted by these norms are the primary sources of data for this report.
b. Advise the Council if the elements of the Sharia are contrary to resolution 16/18 adopted by the Human Rights Council in 2011 which related to ‘combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of, and discrimination, incitement to violence and violence against, persons based on religion or belief’ as they relate to non-Muslims.
c. To work and assist UN Women to determine the extent to which the elements of Sharia are the root cause of inequality and violence by extremist Muslims against women.
d. To determine if the word “kuffar” violates the UN definition of ‘hate speech.’
e. To work closely with UN Women and the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women thereby enabling the Committee mentioned above to hold days of general discussion (DGDs) on ‘The Rights of Women and Girls to be protected against specific norms in the Sharia that violate CEDAW and other human rights treaties on women’ and to further enable the Committee to issue a General Recommendation to State parties.
iii. The Human Rights Council should consider the extent to which elements of Sharia have been demonstrated to cause crimes against humanity and gender apartheid against women, as recorded in its 2016 report on ISIS crimes against Yazidis, and the joint report by the Special Rapporteur for Afghanistan and the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls. Based on these reports, it should contribute to ongoing discussions towards a universal treaty on crimes against humanity and the need to include specific elements of the Sharia as risk factors that heighten the likelihood of such crimes against women.
iv. The Human Rights Council should request the International Law Commission to determine the extent to which elements of Sharia should be classified as harmful practices and therefore null and void as being contrary to international human rights law.
Copy to:
Mr. António Guterres, Secretary-Secretary General, United Nations.
Mr. Volker Türk, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations.
Ms. Ilze Brands Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, United Nations.
Ms. Sami Bahous is the Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director.
Ms. Rola Dashti, Executive Director, Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
Mr. Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General for Counterterrorism, United Nations.
Mr. Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General and United Nations Legal Counsel.
Ms. Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General, Department of Global Communications, United Nations.
Mr. Abraham Cooper, Chair, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Ms. Dunja Mijatović, Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.
Mr. Justice Arun Kumar Mishra (retd), Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission of India.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Finally, something sensibly relevant done on the occasion of women’s day
࿗Infidel࿘ says
It’s another thing of course that the UN is completely worthless, and that nothing should be expected from this as a result. I won’t even start addressing an OIC response
OLD GUY says
Your right the UN will table it and forget about it by tomorrow. And so will the media.
Alex says
Sing Glory Glory Hallelujah!
Mind watch says
There are no words in the dictionary that adequately convey the nature of the hideous, heinous, life-violating scourge of Islam that has survived over the centuries through subjugation, stealth, indoctrination and acted-on threats against any opposition. As has been said so many times, condoning their abuse and appeasing them only makes them stronger.
As there is no allah, Muslim desperados assume his role, via subjugation, abuse and killing. And of course, they put it down to allah, going to any length possible to actually convey the nonsense that allah exists ‘and works through them’. Actually of course, they are in the grip of the lowest level human cravings. They are sightless. Their usual faculties are now dead.
In any case, Islam is entrenched vermin. It steals one’s mind via indoctrination, but perhaps even more repugnant is that it abuses life physically, through atrocities, killings and mutilating young girl’s genitals. To my mind, it is the most disgusting, thinly veiled depraved cult in existence, and the do-gooders, befuddled, ‘obscured-agendered’ lefties, and politicians who bow down to them share the same mind and same guilt.
My own thinking, which I admit is a little ‘metaphysical’, is that those who see Islam for what it is, have maintained their ‘goodness of mind’ (Buddhist term meaning ‘purity of thought’) where those who haven’t are directed by ‘tainted minds’, obscure beliefs and find some ‘vile connection’ with Islam. Do they ever question the nature of the beliefs, obscure agendas and impulses that drive them, I wonder. I don’t think so. But then again, maybe some are very much aware of what drives them?
Apologies for digressing.
But I would like to say that what these renegade ratbags do to young girls, disfiguring them with knives, is just beyond belief. To what depths of depravity can Islam reach. I really feel such sadness for those poor, innocent young girls. My heart really goes out to them. Some international stance against this disgusting regime / cult needs to be taken, and the sooner the better. It simply has to be recognised for the evil it is. It’s time to call a spade a spade. (to state the obvious yet again).
Tony Rice says
The complaint will have no effect as the U N is Muslim country run. They are the larger in number, they even partake in bestial activities , such what took place in Israel on Oct 7th.
BTeboe says
Don’t hold your breath. Islam has been around since the 7th Cen. I don’t see it changing any time soon.
Walter Sieruk says
First, It should made known that Sharia is full of brutal cruel oppressive misogyny which denies basic human rights is viciously harsh oppressive to girls and women in many brutal savage harsh horrific ways.
Therefore, it should be made known that the actual origin of Sharia had been revealed in a Time –Life book with the title MESOPOTAMIA: THE MIGHTY KINGS copyright 1995 ” For that future history book about the ancient pagan world of Mesopotamia informs the reader that “many Islamic laws resemble the Babylon and Assyrian forebears.” .page 150.
Therefore Sharia is of pagan origin and therefore has no value or worth.
Second, Islam with its Sharia, the rights of females are very limited. As in within the Islamic view, they have little to no rights at all. .
As this has been so well explained by Brigitte Gabriel in her book, entitled THEY MUST BE STOPPED in Chapter 9 of the title “Islam’s Contempt for Women” which informs its reader on page 171 “Control of behavior and disregard for human life are key elements in Islamic ideology.”
In addition, on the next page it further reads” Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.”
The tragic and sad reality is that Islam is a religion of brutal, cruel, harsh and even, at times, murderous misogyny.
James Lincoln says
No real action will be taken by the UN.
Count on it.
Goofy says
It is time for a systematic analysis of the Qur’an to assess to which extent it conflicts with the laws of the land as well as international conventions on human rights and war crimes.
Forbid the preaching of all such matters which are illegal.
Simba ✝️ says
Every tiny effort counts, Christ Jesus will destroy Islam but until then small victories can influence women to abandon the evil religion
Buzz says
Ya, when was that going to happen?