Sydney Atheists, together with 185 other non-governmental organizations from more than 50 countries around the world, called on U.N. member states to reject a "pervasive and mounting campaign" by Islamic states to ban criticism of religion under international law.
"It’s an attempt to gut the concept of human rights of its original meeting, which is to protect individuals from harm or state control, not to shield a set of beliefs from critical inquiry," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of the Geneva-based UN Watch, an independent human rights monitoring organization.
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