The modern day vision of human rights has been shown to have many problems. These include: the failure to include non-Western traditions in the formulation of human rights resources, treatises and documents; the instrumentalization of human rights narratives to promote war and cover for colonialism and resource extraction; the social engineering of populations to be depoliticised and compliant.
Find resources on reimagining human rights and the grammars of human dignity on this page from within and without the UJN Network.
An IHRC delegation of human rights activists are on their way to Indonesia amid concerns of sectarian disunity and violence emerging in the historically tolerant
Arzu Merali argues that Muslims have failed many oppressed people, including the Rohingya, by only recognising their plight when the Western media takes and interest.
The event [1] was part of a series of events marking the International Day of Solidarity for the Rohingya in July 2012. The day was
The International Action Committee Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya in Myanmar is launching a day of solidarity for the Rohingya in Myanmar on the
Universal Justice Network Conference – ABIM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2012
Chair of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, Massoud Shadjareh, talks about activism and human rights. Universal Justice Network – ABIM Workshop Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia,
Imam Muhammad al-Asi presented this at the ABIM course on ‘Islam and Human Rights’ in 2012, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Imam goes into great detail
Between 22nd and 29th November 2011, the London secretariat of the Universal Justice Network (UJN) sent a delegation to Egypt and Tunisia on a fact-finding
The Universal Justice Network (UJN) is extremely concerned by the ever increasing level of anti-Muslim sentiment and hate being promoted in Europe. There is not
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