Press Advisory: Debate on Challenges Posed by Recent U.N. Resolutions on "Defamation of Religions"May 12, 2009 Press Advisory
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What:
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“Sharia in the West: U.N. Resolutions to Defamation”
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When:
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May 12th, 2009, 12pm to 1:30pm
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Where:
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Ethics and Public Policy Center
1015 Fifteenth Street, N.W. 9th floor
Washington, DC 20005
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Who:
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Angela Wu, International Law Director will be participating in a discussion with Nonie Darwish, noted American writer and public speaker, on the challenges posed by the recent rise of the U.N. resolutions on “defamation of religions,” which seek to prohibit blasphemy as defined in Sharia. The debate is part of a three-part symposium that seeks to explore the relationship between Sharia and the West.
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Why:
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This panel seeks to uncover what the implications of the U.N. resolutions on “defamation of religions” are on U.S. policy and what it seeks to defend, specifically when the weapons of choice are language, law, and financial institutions.
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The Becket Fund has been a leading advocate against the resolutions and “defamation of religions” concept, and has delivered several interventions before the Human Rights Council (click here for a 2006 intervention, and here for an intervention from the current session) and issued a brief on this topic as well as having testified before various governmental bodies, non-governmental bodies and the press.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is a non governmental organization with consultative status before the United Nations and a non-profit public interest law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. Ms. Wu is on the governing Bureau of the UN’s NGO committee on freedom of religion or belief.
For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact Kristina Arriaga at karriaga@becketfund.org or cell +1.703.582.8962.
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