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From Multicultural odysseys: navigating the new international politics of diversity By Will Kymlicka - 2007 Page 308 The regionalization of minority rights is most advanced within the West, in Europe and the Americas, By contrast, there is virtually no enthusiasm in Asia or the Arab/Muslim world to defelop regional norms on minortitiy rights. The whole issue remains essentially a taboo topic in many Asian and Middle Eastern countries.... Interestingly, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, representing Muslim-majority countries around the world, has a Department on Minority Affairs, but its formal resolutions focus exclusively on the rights of Muslim minorities living in non-Muslim majority countries (Khan 2002). (For representative example, see the OIC's resolution 'On Safeguarding the Rights of Muslim Communites and Minorities in non-OIC Member States'-- Resoliution No. 1/10-MM (IS), adopted at the 10th Session of the Islamic Summit Conference, 16-17 October-2203). The OIC has not attempted to codify norms, or to establish formal monitoring mechanisms, regarding the treatment of ethnic minorities within Muslim-majority countries, such as the oppression of the Kurds in Syria, the Ahwaz in Iran, the Hazars in Afghanistan, the Baluchs in Pakistan,the 'Al-Akhdam' in Yemen, or the Berbers in Algeria. (For the plight of Muslim ethnic minorities within Muslim-majority states, see, eg, Ibrahim 1995;Self2005;Grare 2006;Shatzmiller 2005;Bengio and Ben-Door 1999).