The 193-member General Assembly on March 15 adopted a resolution, introduced by Pakistan’s Ambassador Munir Akram under agenda item Culture of peace, to proclaim March 15 as the International Day to Combat Islamophobia.
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- The resolution, introduced by Pakistan on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), was adopted by consensus.
- It was backed by 57 members of OIC and eight other countries, including China and Russia.
India’s position
- India has expressed concern over phobia against “one religion being elevated to the level of an international day”.
- Following the adoption of the resolution, India’s Permanent Representative to the UN .S. Tirumurti said while India condemns all acts motivated by anti-semitism, Christianophobia or Islamophobia, such phobias were not restricted to Abrahamic religions only.
- He pointed to the emergence of anti-Hindu, anti-Buddhist and anti-Sikh phobias.
- He further said, Hinduism has more than 1.2 billion followers, Buddhism more than 535 million and Sikhism more than 30 million spread out around the world. It is time that we acknowledged the prevalence of religiophobia, rather than single out just one.
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