Egypt's Islamists slam UN women’s rights resolution
Egypt’s ruling Muslim Brotherhood has condemned a UN draft declaration on women's rights, claiming the document violates Islamic Law. The party outlined ten reasons why women in Muslim countries should not have the proposed rights.
The document, “End Violence Against Women,” is planned to be ratified on Friday by the UN Commission on the Status of Women and is now being negotiated as part of the 57th session.
The Muslim Brotherhood, in a statement on its official website, claims that the articles of the declaration “are destructive tools meant to undermine the family as an important institution.” The Islamists claim the document would “subvert the entire society and drag it to preIslamic ignorance.”
Among the clauses which the organisation finds offensive are an article enabling women to choose the gender of their partners; use of con- traceptives by teenagers; and a clause that allocates equal rights for homosexuals and protection for sex workers.
“The Muslim Brotherhood urges the leaders of Islamic countries and their UN representatives to reject and condemn this document,” the party said in the statement.The issue of Muslim women marrying non-Muslim men has also been condemned in the outline.
Muslim Brotherhood spokesmen also found unacceptable a call for “cancelling the need for a husband’s consent in matters like travel, work, or use of contraception” and rejected the idea of abolishing “polygamy, dowry, men taking charge of family spending.”(
The Muslim Brotherhood urges the leaders of Islamic countries and their UN representatives to reject and condemn this document