OIC Watch

OIC Chief to Visit Sri Lanka on Conflict Resolution Mission to Investigate Rights of Muslim Minorities

October 01, 2014

The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) will lead a conflict resolution mission to Sri Lanka, an OIC observer-state, to meet with the country's president and to investigate inter-communal violence affecting Sri Lanka's Muslim minorities.
OIC Plans High Profile Meetings and Strategy Sessions for Opening of UN General Assembly

September 24, 2014

The Secretary General of the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) will hold strategic planning sessions in sideline meetings at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly (“UNGA”), with particular focus on Islamic approaches to conflict resolution, Islamic organizations in the United States and Palestine, and Islamic perspectives on human rights – and is expected to meet with the UN Secretary General and heads of state from around the world.
OIC Group Recommends Establishment of Global Islamic Disaster Management Capability

September 24, 2014

The Statistical Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (“SESRIC”) and the Islamic Development Bank, institutional arms of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”), have released a risk and vulnerabilities assessment of conflicts and natural disasters affecting Muslims around the world, with recommendations that the OIC establish a Disaster Management Center that would integrate global Islamic training, research, and action mechanisms, in order to improve OIC capacity to respond to violent conflicts and natural disasters in the organization's member-states.
OIC Chief Calls Islamic State and Boko Haram Non-Islamic

September 24, 2014

Speaking at the Bahraini offices of the International Peace Institute, the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) characterized groups such as The Islamic State and Boko Haram as having nothing in common with Islam, and argued that international humanitarian relief could best weaken radical groups' appeal to impoverished and excluded Muslims in places such as Iraq and Gaza.
OIC Chief and Iranian Foreign Minister Meet to Discuss Global Islamist Extremism

September 24, 2014

The Saudi Chief of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) met with Iran's Foreign Minister in New York on the approach to the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, and issued a statement calling on "the Islamic world and Muslim nations" to combat terrorism and extremism as threats to Islam's global image.
Islamic Development Bank Pledges More Support for African Universities

September 17, 2014

The Islamic Development Bank, an institution of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”), has pledged to increase funding for two OIC universities in Uganda and Niger, toward the goal of turning them into science-and-technology centers of excellence.
OIC and EU Reps Meet to Explore Partnerships and Common Ground

September 17, 2014

Representatives of the 57-member-state Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) met with EU representatives last week in Brussels for what was billed as the first High Level Consultation, to explore possible partnerships in common interest areas, with the EU focused on external action and humanitarian policy and the OIC also adding protection of Muslim minorities and combatting Islamophobia to the list of priorities.
OIC Delegation Visit to Sri Lanka Combines Post-Conflict Reconciliation and UN Politics

September 17, 2014

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”), which has a history of regular involvement as a conflict-resolution advisor on violence against Sri Lanka's Muslim minority, has been invited by the Colombo government to visit villages rebuilt since summer communal riots in the country, a visit that some experts describe as Colombo's move to secure OIC leverage with the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
OIC Member-States Criticize UN for Imposing Human Rights to Counter Islamic Values

September 10, 2014

Arab and Muslim groups whose member-states belong to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (“OIC”) and to the UN Human Rights Council criticized the UN body for using universal human rights as a pretext for strong-arming countries to accept values that are contradictory to Islamic norms and, instead, pointed to the OIC Human Rights Council as a source of acceptable human rights principles.
OIC Backs Palestinians and Condemns Israel's Plans to Expand Settlements

September 04, 2014

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC") issued an official condemnation of Israel's announcement regarding planned expansion of settlements in the West Bank, calling for international action to halt the confiscation of Palestinian properties.