OIC Watch

OIC Chief Lauds Euro Parliament Resolution on Palestine

December 19, 2014

Increasingly active in promoting international recognition of Palestinian statehood, the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") issued an official statement lauding the European Parliament's resolution in support of recognition for Palestine, and also reiterated the OIC's support for a United Nations Security Council resolution that would impose a timeline on Israeli occupation of the Palestinian Territories.
Task Force Analyzes Drag on STEM Education in OIC Countries

December 19, 2014

Preliminary findings of a Task Force on "Science at Universities in the Muslim World" identify Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") countries as some of the world's worst performers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("STEM") education, and will be incorporated in a 2015 set of policy recommendations to OIC Education Ministers for wholesale educational reform.
Uganda Looks to OIC Countries for Investment

December 17, 2014

Uganda's Permanent Representative to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia is engaging with the rulers of both the Gulf Kingdom and Jordan to promote OIC member-state investment in the development of strategic sectors – including energy and minerals – in East Africa.
OIC Chief Says Islam Has Nothing to Do with Attack on Pakistan School

December 17, 2014

The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) condemned the recent, brutal attack by the Pakistani Taliban on a Pakistani school and declared that perpetrators of terror under the moniker of Islam have nothing to do with the religion.
OIC Pushes Technology Innovation for Economic Development

December 17, 2014

Consistent with its mission to become the voice and platform for Muslims worldwide, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) is convening a conference in Pakistan to coordinate and facilitate its 57 member-states' capacity to develop strategic initiatives using innovations in science and technology for purposes of public health and sustainable development in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
OIC Slams Israel for Palestinian Minister's Killing

December 12, 2014

Saudi Arabian diplomat and Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC"), Iyad Ameen Madani, harshly condemned the recent killing of a senior Minister of the Palestinian Authority at a protest against Israel's settlement expansions in the West Bank, and called on the international community to bring Israel to account for its "ongoing crimes and violations through occupation."
OIC Combines Critique of ISIL with Blame on United States

December 10, 2014

The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) applauded the final communique of the recent Brussels meeting of the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (“ISIL”), reiterating the OIC's view that ISIL is "the archenemy of Islam," but also charging the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 with creating conditions that gave rise to ISIL.
OIC Denounces International Media Critique of FIFA in Qatar as Bias

December 04, 2014

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") has slammed international media for their inquiry into corruption and transparency failures in Qatar's successful bid to host the 2022 FIFA ("International Federation of Association Football"), charging bias against Qatar and "the peoples of the Islamic world."
OIC Governments Discuss Media and Free Speech Limits to Promote Islam

December 04, 2014

Information and Communications Ministers from the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") met in Iran to discuss "media convergence for peace and calm in the Islamic world," reviewing proposals to use social media to promote "common story boards of the positive aspects of Islam" in order to counter extremist Islamist narratives, and calling on member-states to constrain freedom of expression when necessary to combat social media messages by violent extremist Islamists.
OIC Meeting in Iran to Coordinate Global Islamic Information Policy

December 03, 2014

Ministers of Information from the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) are meeting in Iran to discuss developments of a coordinated information strategy among the 57 member-states, with particular focus on "countering Islamophobia, the dangers of violent extremism, and combatting Israel's policies in Jerusalem."