Islamic influence on UN Human Rights Council worries humanists

The Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA) has written to Foreign Office minister Lord Malloch-Brown about the activities of the Organisation of Islamic Conference.
 
It is concerned that the work of the United Nations Human Rights Council is being undermined by the presence of Islamic nations on the council.

Last year 54 member states of the UN Human Rights Council asked the council to act against violations of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. 

GALHA highlighted a resolution passed in March on the defamation of religions as evidence of theocratic states undermining human rights principles.
 
56 countries are members of the OIC.
 
"As you may know, 17th May marks the International Day Against Homophobia," wrote David Christmas, secretary of GALHA.
 
"We are taking the opportunity offered by this global spirit of action to urge you to take action on what many now regard as the subversion of the UN Human Rights Council by nations associated with the Organisation of the Islamic Conference.
 
"Along with countless others, we are gravely concerned by these developments and our concerns our greatly increased by the fact that the nations making up the OIC are responsible for the most flagrant abuses of the human rights of LGBT people, persecuting and executing LGBT Muslims and non-Muslims within their own borders.

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