Religion and Human Rights

An article in the December 2005 issue of the Journal of Social Issues entitled "The Three Monotheistic World Religions and International Human Rights" is provided in full-text online by Blackwell. The author is J. Paul Martin of Columbia's Center for the Study of Human Rights.

Resources relating to religious persecution and human rights standards include:

- Claims for Protection Based on Religion or Belief: Analysis and Proposed Conclusions, by Karen Musalo (Dec. 2002) (text)

- Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief, General Assembly resolution 36/55 of 25 November 1981 (text)

- The Complexity of Religion in Determining Refugee Status, by T. Jeremy Gunn (Oct. 2002) (text; revised version in Harvard Human Rights Journal)

- Human Rights Watch reports on "religious freedom"

- The International Religious Freedom Report (2005 version) - surveys religious freedom on a country-by-country basis

- Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on freedom of religion or belief (web site) - see esp. annual reports and country visits

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