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see highlights 👇🏿 from her report after meeting many current and former gov officials, academics, artists, journalists, religious leaders/ scholars, youth, elderly, and migrant workers, and others working on/in fundamentalism, extremism, media & human rights
concerned that the many instances in which the Constitution refers to Islam as a limitation on human rights risking freedom of conscience, and cultural rights are all threatened.
Cultural rights do not justify discrimination, violence or violations of other internationally guaranteed human rights.
Islamic globalization manipulating religion to achieve political aims, impose one restrictive version of religion as a matter of law public/policy to consolidate power in a hegemonic/coercive manner; entirely distinct from ordinary religious observance enjoying cultural life.
referenced that Maldivians may feel trapped between Islamic and other forms of globalization. concerned with rise of fundamentalism leading to the discarding of Maldivian cultural & religious practices
increasingly limiting women’s cultural choices regarding dress while promoting and imposing new forms of dress not reflective of Maldivian tradition or the specificities of climate on women and girls.
alarmed by officials, civil society and experts who are experiencing threats from fundamentalist ideology leading to self-censorship and sharply circumscribing cultural life.
threats to persons made on social media will be carefully addressed in accordance with international standards in the new social media law to be drafted and that those who threaten others will be brought to justice in accordance with international standards.
concerned to be told by a Deputy Minister that no Maldivians wish to see the religious practices of others who are not Muslim. human rights education emphasizing the diversity of cultural expressions and the values of tolerance and mutual understanding is urgently needed
disturbed to learn that a religious leader who had spoken out against extremism and for tolerance in his sermons was reportedly told by local officials, after reporting that he had received threats, to discontinue his work in this regard
increased dialogue between religious scholars and other people about religion is also important, as is the provision of further education and information about religion that is in keeping with human rights
increased dialogue between religious scholars and other people about religion is also important, as is the provision of further education and information about religion that is in keeping with human rights
Fundamentalist ideology has resulted in violence, disappearance Rilwan, killing of Yameen & Dr. Afrashee Many voices stressed that those killings had a harmful impact on the cultural expression of others, and that they feared their recurrence, despite recent political changes.
important for the Government and the society to critically assess the negative consequences of framing the Maldivian identity in the official narrative as “homogenous”
source: ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/…
