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Human rights in Islamic countries have been a hot-button issue for many decades. International Non-governmental Organizations ("INGOs") such as Amnesty International ("AI") and Human Rights Watch ("HRW") consistently find human rights violations in Islamic countries. Amongst the human rights issues that are frequently under the spotlight are gay rights, the right of consensual sex outside of marriage, individual freedom of speech and political opinion. The issue of women’s rights is also the subject of fierce debate.〔 The fundamental reason why Islamic countries are ranked so lowly in human rights indicators such as (The International Human Rights Rank Indicator ) ("IHRRI") has to do with how Western democracies and the Islamic world approach the topic of human rights. While the concept of human rights in Western democracies was developed over centuries through Western experience and grounded in the idea of faith, human rights in the Islamic world is based on the Qur'anic ideal of human dignity.〔 As a result of this differing basis, it is impossible for Islamic countries to measure up to the standards of human rights set by Western democracies since their views and understanding of human rights differ from their Western counterparts, thus resulting in different practices in their societies. When the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ("UDHR") in 1948, Saudi Arabia refused to sign it as they were of the view that shariah law had already set out the rights of men and women.〔 To sign the UDHR was deemed unnecessary. What the UDHR did do was to start a debate on human rights in the Islamic world. Following years of deliberation, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ("OIC") adopted the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights. ==International Human Rights Rank Indicator== The International Human Rights Rank Indicator (IHRRI), which combines scores for a wide range of human rights, is produced by the Global Network for Rights and Development (GNRD); ratings in the table below are as of 11 October 2014. All Muslim countries have a human rights rating less than 53%, with the notable exception of United Arab Emirates, whose rating (61.49%) is similar to many Western democracies; for comparison, Sweden is the highest-rated country worldwide with 89.13%, and the US is rated 69.23%. Here is the percent and decimal of each country's contribution of human rights followed. The population percentage figures below are from the Pew Research Center report, ''The Future of the Global Muslim Population'', as of 27 January 2011; all majority Muslim countries (with population over 50% Muslim) are listed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Human rights in Islamic countries」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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