This article is difficult to write, more difficult still to bring before a large audience. But I need the input from an intelligent audience able to look both ways regarding the value of religion, and this organization must surely have the requisite audience. I therefore ask your indulgence to survey theoretical work developed over a thirty year period and make your comments freely available, with my sincere thanks in advance.

1 Introduction

In this paper I shall look at the communitarians’ accounts of human rights in Africa as conceived by scholars writing on the African experience. I shall explore their understanding of the notion of equality, and their ideas on human rights in terms of a proclaimed African communitarian ethos and proceed with a critique of these notions. I argue that despite many African thinkers’ insistence that African communitarianism does encapsulate a respect for the individual’s rights, dignity and liberties, communitarianism (whether it be extreme or moderate) does not enfold a paradigm of individual human rights-claims, but instead embraces an authoritarian and sexist paradigm.

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Religion & Children's RightsBy Zaffarullah Khan

Sad story from Pakistan

Now, they are called, 'rat children' though were born to normal humans. It happened because they fell pray (and continue to be) to the worst physical abuse by a quasi-religious ritual in Gujrat (Pakistan).

Rob Buitenweg

There is a crisis in human rights.

At first sight this would seem to be an unsustainable statement.