I diritti dell'infanzia nell'Islam

Abstract

The essay treats the main historical and legal stages concerning children's rights in Muslim areas. Because there remains great social and cultural variety among Muslim countries, the paper the OIC (Organization Of The Islamic Conference) drafted stands as the official position of children's rights which was adopted from the Islamic Community at the international level. The most important documents about children's rights in Muslim countries include centrality of intellectual and spiritual education and the importance that all children live and grow in an environment suitable to achieve their full potential. In modern times these principles have been revised and transformed into a formal statement of children's rights that has found fulfilment in the Declaration on the Rights and Care of the Child in Islam adopted by the Seventh Islamic Summit Conference under resolution No.16/7-C (1994). During the last thirty years, according to a long religious tradition that has always shown interest in child welfare, the matter of the affirmation and protection of children's rights has emerged in the political and cultural debate of many Muslim countries, particularly those of the Maghreb area. Cultures aren't fixed and immutable; change is part of the human condition. Understanding this makes any form of transnational relationship smoother and less prone to misunderstandings. Muslim countries try to mix nee• essary openness to other world cultures with protection of their own religion.