Symposium on Imam University Efforts to Promote Human Rights

On the occasion of the International Human Right Day, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University had successfully organized and held an openly academic gathering on the university continuity efforts to help ensure the primacy of Human Rights (HR).

Imam Human Rights special symposium, which was underwent under the kind patronage of H.E. Prof. Dr. Suliman Aba Al-Khail, Rector of Imam University, had inaugurated by Dr. Abdulrahman Hamd Ad-Dawud, Imam University Vice-Rector for Studies, Development and Academic Accreditation, at the main hall of the Supreme Jurisdiction Institute on today morning.

A number of contributors and academics have been participated at the event where all focused on methods and instruments that could help people everywhere to learn about their human rights. Dr. Abdul-Mohsen AS-Samihm, Dean of King Abdullah Center for Islamic Studies and Civilization Dialogue,   pointed out the importance of human rights in Islam and to what extent Glorious Quran and Sunnah had clearly laid out the necessary instruments for protection and promotion human rights principles.

Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud, Vice-Dean of Imam Supreme Jurisdiction Institute, highlighted broadly the true definition of HR in Islam as well as providing some characters of in Islam. He stressed that, Islam is the first ever to declare all human rights are universal, indivisible, and interdependent and interrelated.

Dr. Nassir Ibrahim, Head of Islamic Culture Dept at Imam Sharia College, pointed out in his speech the major differences between HR in Islam and in the Universal Declaration of Human Right (UDHR) of 1948, a document that prepared, ratified and signed by all successors’ countries after the World War II. He obviously mentioned the university’s contributions and efforts in human rights field including, but not limited to, scientific researches and papers focusing in HR prepared by both faculty staff members and postgraduate students, and the establishment of King Abdullah Center for Islamic Studies and Civilization Dialogue and Sheikh Abdulrahman Al-Jeraisy Research Chair for Human Rights Studies.
  
The symposium was attending by a number of senior officials of the university. Q&A session had been held at the end of the gathering.