Edited by Arzu Merali and Faisal Bodi, The New Colonialism: the American Model of Human Rights presents nine contributions from scholar-activists looking at how human rights as theory and practice have been co-opted by the US as part of brutal, racist and colonial foreign and domestic policies. Topics under discussion include elucidations
Presented at the CES ALICE Colloqium Panel 1:4 in Coimbra in 2014. She discusses what it means to human, who controls the meaning, and how using different traditions – specifically the Islamic tradition – can show us how to move beyond the polarisation Westernised societies are facing today. From CES: Arzu
Arzu Merali discusses human rights activism from a decolonial perspective with Julia Suarez-Krabbe on 20 March 2014.
Arzu Merali presents a critique of current human rights regimes, arguing that the South, including Islamic civilisations need to create their own narratives and institutional alternatives. This presentation was delivered in Kuala Lumpur at a student training session organised by ABIM and presented by the Universal Justice Network (UJN) in May 2012.
A presentation by Arzu Merali dealing with the problems of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from a Muslim perspective. Download the report here. The paper by Arzu Merali was presented at the one day conference, ‘Concepts of Human Rights: Islamic and Western Perspectives.’ In a comparison between Islamic Human Rights and Western
Arzu Merali argues that the current human rights discourse discriminates against Muslim women and ‘other’ women. Download the report, published by IHRC, here. The report uses Iran and Turkey as examples in some points as well as referring to the case of Gul Aslan. Arzu cites Katerina Dalacoura’s studies of ‘Islamic Iran’
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