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The Shirazi Foundation attended an event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace titled The UN General Assembly at 70: A Conversation With Assistant Secretary of State Sheba Crocker.  Experts spoke on the history of the U.N. and weather its fraying or meeting today’s unique set of challenges. Experts also further elaborated on future  plans to reaffirm a broader commitment to the U.N. and to focus in on four key issues, locking in new commitment to U.N. peacekeeping, engaging a broader range of actors, countering ISIS and violent extremism and advancing goals on climate sustainable development. 

 

In consideration of rights of children, and in order to take part in United Nations hope to reduce involvement of children in armed conflict, Shirazi Foundation’s Washington D.C director attends an event organized by permanent representations of the EU and African Union with the hope of adding insight from other countries where this critical issue needs increasing involvement of the international society and a collective effort to eliminate involunteer of children in conflict zones.

The United Nations focus on six important major issues; Killing and Maiming, Child Recruitment, Sexual violence, Attacks on schools and hospitals, Denial of Humanitarian access, and abduction.

In the past two decades, a number of United Nations reports, including the 1996 study by Graça Machel and its 10-year review, have noted with concern that the character and tactics of armed conflict are changing. These developments have created new threats to children.

Children have become more vulnerable due to new tactics of warfare, the absence of clear battlefields, the increasing number and diversification of parties to conflict that add to the complexity of conflicts and the deliberate targeting of traditional safe havens such as schools and hospitals. Moreover, the increasing use of terrorist and counter-terrorist activities sometimes blurs the line between what is legitimate and what is not in addressing security threats.

Protection of children during military operations

The new characteristics of war including the use of new technologies, have led to greater risks to children during the conduct of hostilities. Wherever military tactics involve aerial attacks and drone operations, children are likely to be killed and injured. Although such attacks are not prohibited by international humanitarian law as such, they must not be disproportionate. Member States should exercise caution in adopting these military tactics and put in place effective protection measures to ensure zero civilian casualties during military operations.

Use of children as instruments of violence

Of growing concern is the use of children to carry explosives or plant explosive devices. In the past few years, we have witnessed an increase in the use of child suicide bombers and child victim bombers, those who are not even aware that they are carrying explosives and are detonated from a distance. Girls and boys, sometimes as young as eight, are often unaware of the actions or consequences of the acts they are instigated to commit. Such acts often lead to their own death and the killing of civilians, including other children.

Children in detention

State are also increasingly arresting and detaining children associated with armed groups, because they are perceived as a threat to national security or because they have allegedly participated in hostilities. Many of these children are kept in poor conditions in contravention of international standards in juvenile justice.

Attacks on education

A marked characteristic of the changing nature of conflict is deliberate attacks against education infrastructures, as well as the targeting of school children and teachers. Beyond the destruction and damaging of school facilities, there are also reports of the use of acid and gas attacks on girl students on their way to school, as well as shootings and suicide bombings on school premises. In some contexts, schools are also a prime recruiting ground for children. Elsewhere, school buildings are used as military bases that become strategic targets.

 

Organized by Organization for Communication in Africa and Promotion of International Economic cooperation International, ( OCAPROCE International  ) Shirazi Foundation’s expert in Women Rights attends a side event at the United Nation  focusing on Women and children rights and violations in Kashmir and other countries in the world. Women and children have been victims of unasked for wars, forced into conditions below worldwide standard of living, without their basic needs met by the international community and the number of displace women and children has increased and continues to become worse and worse unless organizations, men and women stand for rights of people whose rights have been violated, the increasing amount of violations taking place on daily bases will amount to a mountain that will be near impossible to move.

 

The rapporteur of Shirazi Foundation attends the United Nation’s event on informal consultation and the draft resolution on the Death Penalty organized by Missions of Belgium, Benin, and other missions. Death Penalty continues to be part of judicial system of certain countries, and the aim of this event is to analyze the link between Death Penalty and other Human Rights violations and looks into contributions by delegations of numerous countries present in the meeting, and viewing the preamble of this draft as it is a focus of the United Nations to address human rights violations in general as Death Penalty remains legal in 97 countries and territories.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remark reflects the global trend away from capital punishment. More and more Member States from all regions acknowledge that the death penalty undermines human dignity, and that its abolition, or at least a moratorium on its use, contributes to the enhancement and progressive development of human rights.

More than 160 Members States of the United Nations with a variety of legal systems, traditions, cultures and religious backgrounds, have either abolished the death penalty or do not practice it. Yet, prisoners in a number of countries continue to face execution.

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, with its mandate to promote and protect all human rights, advocates for the universal abolition of the death penalty. The UN Human Rights Office argues this position for other reasons as well, including the fundamental nature of the right to life; the unacceptable risk of executing innocent people; and the absence of proof that the death penalty serves as a deterrent to crime.

In line with General Assembly resolutions calling for a phasing out of capital punishment , the UN Human Rights Office supports Member States, civil society and other stakeholders campaigning for a  moratorium on the death penalty and ultimately  its abolition  worldwide.

 

Shirazi Foundation’s Human Rights advisor attends event held in Geneva’s United Nation titled: Enforced Disappearances, organized by Nonviolence International in order to further understand this important and crucial topic. Enforced disappearance occurs when a person is secretly abducted or imprisoned by a state or political organization or by a third party with the authorization, support, or acquiescence of a state or political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the person’s fate and whereabouts, with the intent of placing the victim outside the protection of the law.

Shirazi Foundation actively seeks further information and searches for tools to reduce this globally recognized human rights violation.

 

 

The Origin of Shia Islam
Islamic Structure, the Shia Perspective
Shia Doctrine, Important Topics Explained
Successors of Prophecy
Why Seek Islam through Muhammads Family
Sunni Scholarly Perspective of Shiaism
 

 

Story of Newborn Prophet; Muhammad
Muhammad a living breathing Interactive Quran
Muhammad, at the time of Prophecy, Ruling, to become an international Symbol
The Prophet in the eyes and thoughts of well-acknowledged Western Thinkers
Quotes from Prophet of Mercy

 

 

The Shirazi Foundation attended an event hosted by the Atlantic Council titled Protecting Civilians in Syria: Parameters of the Problem and Policy Options.  A panel of experts gathered to discuss  securing safety for civilians and the current pressure and challenges the NGO communities face throughout this conflict. Experts also searched for practical  answers to the growing question as to how long the conflict will last. Heavy concerns were placed on the effects of war and civilian protection and how to minimize these effects. Experts suggested they see no end of the conflict in the near future with the rising number of casualties.

 

“Every person has the right to free thought, free speech, freedom to work, freedom to travel and settle, freedom to write, all of this in a pure framework offered by tolerant Islamic law.”

The Shia and Their Beliefs

Sayed Mohammad Shirazi

 

 

“Implementing Islam in the world is the hope of the Shia, for Islam provides for every person: correct belief; freedom for individuals and groups; happiness of life through being saved from poverty, illness, ignorance and crime; complete peace between countries, individuals, and nations.

 

The Shia and Their Beliefs,pg. 28

Sayed Mohammad Shirazi