Justifying blasphemy laws: freedom of expression, public morals, and international human rights law
In its General Comment No. 34 dealing with freedom of expression, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) rejected the idea that a blasphemy law could ever be human-rights compliant, unless its function was to prevent incitement to religious or racial hatred. This is a widely shared view t...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2020]
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-60 |
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Vereinte Nationen, Internationales Menschenrechtskomitee
/ International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966 Dezember 19)
/ Blasphemy
/ Freedom of opinion
/ Public order
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy XA Law |
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Public Morality
B Pakistan B freedom of expression B Blasphemy B Ireland B Human Rights |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |