Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
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The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Yousef Ahmed Al Othaimeen, approved humanitarian relief allocations for the benefit of six projects in the State of Palestine.
...Jeddah, 6 December 2018
...The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) staged a ceremony on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people which is marked on 29 November of each year. The ceremony was attended by the Member States’ Permanent Representatives to the OIC along with members from the Diplomatic Corps and the Palestinian community in Jeddah.
...GENERAL SECRETARIAT OF THE ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC COOPERATION
...Jeddah, 5 December 2018
...The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) hosted on 3-4 December 2018, at its headquarters in Jeddah, the Fourth Session of the Annual Coordination Meeting of the OIC institutions, which concluded its proceedings with a matrix of projects and programs to be executed over the year 2019 through diverse partnerships among the OIC institutions.
...The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen has called for global comprehensive humanitarian actions that will ensure that refugees have access to secure transit routes, safe spaces and protection when they arrive in a host country, and resources and services that will help them to build a post-conflict life, free from violence and poverty.
...The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Yousef A. Al-Othaimeen, called on the OIC Member States, their relevant institutions and civil society organizations to intensify efforts and step up attention to and support for the rights of people with special needs in various fields of education, rehabilitation, sports and community integration, to identify the major barriers facing them in their daily life and the ways to address them, and to eliminate obstacles to their integration into their societies.
...The President of Burkina Faso H.E. Roch Marc Kabore and the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen presented the OIC Prize for Women’s Achievements to three prominent awardees, a Palestinian woman, a Turkish association, and a Burkinabe organization. The award is a tribute to their outstanding contributions in the field of women empowerment in the OIC Member States.
...The 7th Ministerial Conference on the Role of Women in the Development of the Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on 1 December 2018, started with an inaugural session marked by the address of the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso, HE Mr. Paul Kaba Thieba, the Secretary General of the OIC, Dr. Youssef Al Othaimeen, the outgoing Chair of the Sixth Conference, the Minister of Family Affairs of Turkey, and the incoming Chair of the Seventh Conference, Minister of Family Affairs of Burkina Faso.
...At the request of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will hold a meeting at the level of Permanent Representatives of the Member States on Wednesday, 5 December 2018, to discuss the Israeli racist basic law known as “Israel as the Nation State of the Jewish People” and its impact on the political and historic rights of the Palestinian people.
...On the sidelines of the OIC Workshop on Muslims in the United Kingdom, a series of bilateral consultation meetings were held at the Foreign Office in London on the situation of Muslim communities in South and Southeast Asia. The OIC delegation led by Dr. Hassan Abdin, Head of the Muslim Minorities and Communities Department met with Mark Binnington, Head of East Asia Dept., Alice Truman, Head of Burma Unit, South East Asia and Pacific Dept., Andrew Plummer, Philippines and Malaysian Desk, South East Asia and Pacific Dept., and Helen Flewker, Head of Gulf Team.
...The OIC is organizing a workshop in the Houses of Parliament, London, on 30 November 2018, on Muslims in the United Kingdom.
...The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr Yousef Al-Othaimeen, led General Secretariat delegation to the extraordinary Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers, which took place in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain, under the generous patronage of His Royal Majesty Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa.
...The Organization of Islamic Cooperation expressed appreciation for the $50 million the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has donated to the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), hailing this generous gift as a manifestation of Saudi Arabia’s sustained political and financial support to the Palestinian people.
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