Page:Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam.djvu/1

 UNITED NATIONS Rh

WORLD CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS Preparatory Committee Fourth session Geneva, 19 April - 7 May 1993 Item 5 on the provisional agenda

The attention of the Preparatory Committee is drawn to the attached contribution submitted by Dr. N.S. Tarzi, the Ambassador of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to the Office of the United Nations at Geneva. The contribution consists of the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, which was adopted on 5 August 1990, and also resolution 41/21-P of the Twenty-First Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers (Session of Islamic Unity and Co-operation for Peace, Justice and Progress) held in Karachi from 25 to 29 April 1993. In this resolution it was requested that the Cairo Declaration and the resolution be considered as a contribution of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference to the World Conference on Human Rights. GE.93-14033