With the end of World War II and the considerable amount of human suffering left, human rights became one of the most important common norms of the contemporary international system, ...
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With the end of World War II and the considerable amount of human suffering left, human rights became one of the most important common norms of the contemporary international system, and all international actors sought to establish institutions at the regional level in addition to creating common global norms. Through it, they can also legislate to uphold local human rights norms. In the meantime, European countries, in the form of their fledgling institutionalisms, sought to institutionalize them extensively and chose human rights as the cornerstone of their foreign policy. The Islamic world, in the form of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, has established the normative system of Islamic human rights.However, due to differences in epistemological and ontological foundations in the formulation of these human rights systems, we are witnessing normative conflicts between the West and the Islamic world, and the West is trying to use human rights as a tool to put pressure on Islamic countries.This study seeks to investigate the commonalities and differences in Islamic and European normative systems by using a comparative method. Accordingly, in addition to enumerating the human rights norms emphasized by the parties, the researcher examines the shaping causes of these conflicts. Finally, it offers solutions to the human rights challenge
Volume 9, Issue 1 , September 2020, , Pages 143-168
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Human Rights Challenges One of the most marginal challenges of the last two decades between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the poles of power in the contemporary international system, ...
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Human Rights Challenges One of the most marginal challenges of the last two decades between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the poles of power in the contemporary international system, which has led to many restrictions on Iran's action power in the international system. Focusing on Iran's human rights challenges with the European Union, the study seeks to identify the main themes of the challenge, as well as the European Union's human rights claims against the human rights situation in Iran, as well as the application of thematic analysis.The findings of the study indicate that three factors: "the dominance of Islamic values in Iran", "Iran's efforts to challenge the human rights values of the liberal order", and "Iran's efforts to strengthen the internal structure of power" caused challenges. From this perspective, Iran seeks to consolidate its religious and Islamic identity, and the emergence of challenges in issues such as the implementation of sharia law, as well as the refusal to criminalize homosexuality, is rooted in this issue. On the other hand, Iran seeks to provide an alternative model of human life in the contemporary world based on spiritualism and theism, one of the tools of which is to challenge and discredit the values and norms of contemporary liberal order. And, Iran's efforts to strengthen the nation-building and state-building processes at home are backed up, each of which leads to friction with some Western human rights norms.
