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OIC Lobbies for Kazakhstan's Bid on UN Security Council
September 17, 2015
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC"), whose 57 member states vote frequently as a bloc in UN bodies, is lobbying aggressively in support of Kazakhstan’s bid for a non-permanent seat in the UN Security Council for 2017-2018, with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states supporting Kazakhstan despite the country's poor record in protecting religious freedom and other civil and political liberties enshrined in international human rights law.
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Iran Calls on OIC to Lead Action Against Israel for Al-Aqsa Policy
September 16, 2015
The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a key player in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ("OIC"), has called on the 57-member-state multilateral entity to condemn Israel's recent actions at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem as a violation of international human rights law and to press the UN to take action on the issue.
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Afghan Women Use Art to Counter Controls of Islamist Extremism
September 16, 2015
Trends in commercial and folk art in Afghanistan reflect a deliberate move by women to use art as a mechanism for challenging the country's extremist Islamist religious and social codes which have been used to violate the civil and political rights of the country's female population.
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Saudi Arabia's Position on Islamist Extremism Is at Odds with Counter-Terrorism Policy
September 16, 2015
Saudi Arabia's cooperation with Western allies in counter-terrorism policy is unlikely to produce durable results in countering violent Islamism because Riyadh's counter-terrorism efforts are aimed solely at consolidating the Saudi regime's legitimacy claims as the fountainhead of legitimate, Sunni Islam and have been accompanied by massive funding to export fundamentalist Wahhabi initiatives that endorse violence against all those who disagree with a world organized according to sharia principles.
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European Multilateral Organization Takes Up Issue of Muslims and Media
September 16, 2015
The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights ("ODIHR") of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ("OSCE"), the world's largest inter-governmental entity dedicated to security issues, recently sponsored an expert forum on media treatment of Muslim communities, focusing on training strategies to avoid media stereotyping of Muslims, as distinct from media coverage of Islamism and militant Islamist movements.
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