TARGET (human rights organization)
Target e. V. Ruediger Nehberg - Targeted Actions for Human Rights ( proper spelling : TARGET ) is a human rights organization based in Rausdorf , Schleswig-Holstein . Rüdiger Nehberg founded the non-profit association in September 2000 together with his future wife Annette Weber and five other people. Beyond the founders, it only accepts sponsoring members .
The main task is to fight the circumcision of female genitals , which is widespread as a tradition, especially south of the Sahara . Another task the association mentions is the support of the Oiampi Indians in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.
Nehberg was first chairman, Annette Nehberg-Weber second chairwoman and press spokeswoman .
Pro-Islamic Alliance against Female Genital Mutilation
Target also launched the Pro-Islamic Alliance against Female Genital Mutilation (PIA), which fights against female genital mutilation in many predominantly Islamic countries. It is an association of well-known Muslim authorities who declared the tradition of the circumcision of female genitalia to be incompatible with the ethics of Islam or "sin" and who resolutely support the incompatibility thesis with their signature:
“Female genital mutilation is incompatible with the Koran and the ethics of Islam. It is presumption of God and a discrimination against Islam. "
Target would like to enforce the message as dogma together with influential legal scholars of Islam . Nehberg it spread together with the Mauritanian Grand Mufti Hamden Ould Tah ( "Islam says no to female genital mutilation. It is sin.") During his campaign "Caravan of Hope" in Mauritania in the traditional manner possible to even the most remote oases possible to gain a lot of acceptance for it. This action was supported by the patronage of Ole von Beust , by the Mauritanian government and by leading Islamic scholars. Target was even allowed to hang a five-meter-long banner with the fatwa printed on it on a mosque in Mauritania, which is the 7th largest shrine in the Islamic faith. The next goal was to publish the fatwa on a banner on the Kaaba in Mecca, the first shrine of Islam.
The following people joined the Pro-Islamic Alliance against Female Genital Mutilation:
- Dr. Aziz Alkazaz, German Orient Institute Hamburg (2002)
- Sultan Ali Mira Hanfary, religious head of the Afar in Ethiopia (2002)
- Sultan Abdelkader Mohamed Humad, Djibouti (2004)
- Grand Mufti Hamden Ould Tah, 1st Chairman of the Mauritanian Scholars (2004)
- Baba Ould Mata, Scholar, Mauritania (2004)
- Abd-Er-Rahim, Hajji, Imam, Mauritania (2004)
- Bah Mohamed El Bechir, Imam, Mauritania (2004)
In the meantime, the association found further supporters such as religious heads, sultans , grand muftis and clan leaders. The greatest success to date has been the classification of female genital mutilation as a criminal offense at the Cairo conference at al-Azhar University in Cairo in November 2006. The patron was the Grand Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa . During the conference, the circumcision of female genitals was declared in the form of a fatwa as prohibited under Islamic law. This ban became known as the “Cairo fatwa”.
In order to make the result of the conference public, the association published the golden book in 2008 .
literature
- Caravan of Hope With Islam Against Pain and Silence, ISBN 978-3890293226
Web links
- Target website
- The "thing" - campaign against a taboo. Website for the documentary film on behalf of ZDF via Target
- Lecture by Rüdiger Nehberg on the "Caravan of Hope", Hamburg University of Technology on July 2, 2014 (15 min.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Contact. (No longer available online.) Target-human-rights.de, archived from the original on October 27, 2014 ; accessed on April 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Will genital mutilation ever stop? Neue Zürcher Zeitung , November 24, 2006, accessed April 10, 2020 .