GENEVA, June 14 (KUNA) --
Islamic member states of the United Nations Council for Human Rights (UNHCR) rejected on Friday paragraphs violating the Islamic law in the council's resolution on the elimination of all forms of violence against women, noting that the member states must make sure that their laws and national policies are consistent with the rejected demands.

The rejections include the paragraph, which gives women "the right to control matters concerning their sexual lives as well as their reproductive health without coercion, discrimination or violence." They also rejected the paragraph that allows performing judicial proceedings in cases of rape within marriage, the abolition of provisions that require the matching of certificates and allow the rapist to escape prosecution by marrying him to his victim as well as subduing victims of sexual violence to prosecution for moral crimes or slander.

The Islamic countries also frowned on the paragraph that urges abortion in the context of the provision of health care services to rape victims, rape avoidance and other forms of violence against women and girls.

This resolution calls on the states to demonstrate their commitment to the prevention of sexual violence through the enhancement of women's human rights, protection, equal participation in communities to men, in addition to taking necessary action to make sure that women are active in decision-making, including matters of peace processes, transitional justice, democratic transition and constitutional reform.

It also urges the states to increase measures taken to protect women and girls from all violence forms, including sexual violence by addressing issues related to their safety and security through several means such as awareness, involvement of local communities, enacting laws to prevent crime, as well as the provision of infrastructure, public transportation and health facilities, street lighting and improvement of urban planning.

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^Paris, be a good girl and get us the comments of the delegates of Islamic countries on the matter.

I really don't care about what some Muslim countries or their representatives agreed on. Many of them are guided by not only religious laws but cultural practices too. I am going to state my own thoughts in relation to each post.

The rejections include the paragraph, which gives women "the right to control matters concerning their sexual lives as well as their reproductive health without coercion, discrimination or violence."

I believe this is in relation with married women. Is she supposed to make these decisions/ have control without involving her spouse? I would not support such a law either.

They also rejected the paragraph that allows performing judicial proceedings in cases of molestation within marriage

I disagree that there is anything called molestation in a marriage.

by marrying him to his victim as well as subduing victims of intimate violence to prosecution for moral crimes or slander.

marrying him to his victim without her consent would be haram. with her consent, she would have forgiven him

If not, he deserves the death treatment. Subduing her would be totally wrong. Rape should require a capital treatment IMO.

The Islamic countries also frowned on the paragraph that urges abortion in the context of the provision of health care services To Molest victims, molestation avoidance and other forms of violence against women and girls.

abortion is allowed in Islam when the health of the mother is at stake. I wonder what countries these 'Islamic nations' are and whether their religious leaders or political ones are involved in the rejection of the resolutions.