Karin Ryan – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org Mon, 18 Mar 2024 12:23:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.14 https://iric.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/iric-favicon.png Karin Ryan – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org 32 32 “Harmonizing Religion and Human Rights” https://iric.org/harmonizing-religion-and-human-rights/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harmonizing-religion-and-human-rights https://iric.org/harmonizing-religion-and-human-rights/#respond Wed, 05 Dec 2018 04:11:24 +0000 https://demo.iric.org/?p=24388 How can we align religious life with human rights? What role should spiritual leaders play in promoting human rights? And what can everyday people of faith do to defend human rights and encourage mutual respect between people of different religions?

These are a few of the questions that Sh. Omar Suleiman, founder and president of Yaqeen Institute, addressed on Wednesday, December 5 at Conversations at The Carter Center: Harmonizing Religion and Human Rights. The event marked the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and brought together a panel of religious leaders to explore what the scriptures of some of the world’s major religions have to say about human rights.

Karin Ryan, the Carter Center’s senior advisor on human rights and special representative on women and girls was the moderator and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter,

Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah, the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights

Imam Omar Suleiman, founder and president of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research were Panelists.

Source: The Carter Center

Harmonizing-Religion-and-Human-Rights-Carter-Center-2 Harmonizing-Religion-and-Human-Rights-Carter-Center-3

]]> https://iric.org/harmonizing-religion-and-human-rights/feed/ 0