The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) appears to be taking women’s empowerment in the Muslim world seriously. I’ll be curious to see how it plan (or is it just an exhortation?) to accomplish this addresses the issue of women in Saudi Arabia.

OIC finalizing action plan for women empowerment
Laura Bashraheel I Arab News

JEDDAH: In preparation for the Second Ministerial Meeting on Women by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) that will take place in Cairo Nov. 24-25, 33 delegates from the group’s member states met here yesterday to finalize a draft of the action plan for the meeting.

The OIC Plan of Action for the Advancement of Women (OPAAW) is the result of the First Ministerial Conference on Women’s Role in Development that was held in Istanbul in 2006.

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the OIC, said the status of women in society is an integral part of the OIC Ten Year Program of Action adopted by the Third Extraordinary Summit in Makkah in 2005. He stressed on the need to strengthen laws aimed at enhancing the advancement of women in economic, cultural, social and political fields in Muslim societies.
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