Amendment No. 20 | Doc. 14787 | 22 January 2019

Compatibility of Sharia law with the European Convention on Human Rights: can States Parties to the Convention be signatories to the “Cairo Declaration”?

Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy

Origin - 2019 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, at the end of paragraph 9, after the words "practices or traditions", insert the following words:

"on the principle that where human rights are concerned, there is no room for religious or cultural exceptions".