International human rights protection and promotion in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation: modern trend

Abstract

Introduction. The article is concerned with international protection and promotion of human rights by the OIC. Recent developments in the international activity of the organization serve as the thematic justification of the study in the first place, as they reveal certain modifications in its approach to human rights. The study covers several theoretical and practical problems of international public law and national legal orders.Materials and Methods. Methodology of the study includes general scientific methods, such as scientific assessment and description, scientific analysis and synthesis, abstraction, scientific explanation etc., and special methods of jurisprudence, such as historical, comparative and dogmatic methods. For the purposes of the study, universal agreements and soft law acts as well as OIC acts on human rights were studied alongside with UN databases and scientific and analytical papers on Islamic law and international public law.Results. The study revealed that activity of the OIC and its member states in the field of protection and promotion of human rights shows more compliance with the universal standards and is likely to continue in that direction. It outlines the pluralistic approach of the OIC to human rights teachings and its concurrent commitment to Islamic and universal human rights concepts. Modifications in the OIC protection of human rights of vulnerable social groups are explored.Discussion and conclusion. Activity of the OIC in the field of international human rights protection is analyzed from the standpoint of cultural relativism, the views on possible achievement of compatibility of human rights in Islam and universal standards are supported, the approach of the OIC to human rights is considered to reflect the particularities of approaches to human rights of Islamic states and international public law. At the same time ineffectiveness of certain human rights protection measures taken by some mechanisms of protection of human rights of the OIC are pointed out.