Justifying blasphemy laws: freedom of expression, public morals, and international human rights law

No. Panggil :	eja-21-0639
Nama Orang :	Cox, Neville






Penerbitan :	[Place of publication not identified] : Cambridge - Crime, 2020

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Abstrak	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 that is consistently endorsed when any international blas phemy controversy (such as that involving the Danish Cartoons in 2005) arises. This article assesses the legitimacy of this view. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) permits freedom of expression to be limited inter alia in the name of public morality, provided that the law in question is also necessary to achieve this end. This article argues that because a blasphemy law can be a response to a public moral vision; therefore a blasphemy law can serve a legitimate purpose insofar as human rights law is concerned. It is further sub mitted that whereas some blasphemy laws are unacceptably draconian, it is not inherently impossible for such a law to represent a proportionate response to a public morals concern. Thus, the conclusion from the UNHRC is not warranted by the text of the ICCPR. Moreover, there is a risk that, in reaching this conclusion the committee is evincing an exclusively secu larist worldview in its interpretation of the ICCPR that undermines its claim to universality
Entri Tambahan Nama Orang
001 Hak Akses (open/membership)	membership
Kata Kunci	blasphemy, publicmorality, freedomof expression, Ireland, Pakistan, human rights
ISSN
Tahun Terbit	2020
No. Induk	eja-21-0639
Entri Sumber Data	Cambridge - Crime
Entri Utama Nama orang	Cox, Neville
Volume, Nomor, Tahun dan Hlm.	vol. 35, no. 1, p. 33-60
Entri Utama Nama Badan
Barcode	eja-21-0639
Subjek Topik
Judul Utama	Justifying blasphemy laws: freedom of expression, public morals, and international human rights law
Kode Bahasa	eng
Sumber Koleksi	Perpustakaan Nasional