Papers are also invited from interested participants.

The topics are expected to include the discussion of similarities in:

* The nature of death in Christian and Muslim teachings
* The Right to Life and Obligation to Preserve life:

And differences In

* Muslim and Christian approaches to Euthanasia
* The Right to dignified death
* Legal and moral challenges to the right to death
* The validity of legal acts of ill persons: scope and limitations

Further details about the conference are available from
Dr Seyyed Fatemi at The UNESCO Chair for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran,

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Offers of papers, with a title and an abstract of no more than 400 words, should be sent to him to arrive by 20 November 2005.