Post by cobblers on Jan 14, 2009 21:32:45 GMT
Seems the OIC is, among other things, a vehicle for sharia law as an alternative to Universal Human Rights.
With me so far?
This one's good, quite witty
Controversies
Due to its passive reaction and inability to react in time to the world events involving Muslim states and Muslims, the OIC is sometimes satirically called "Oh! I See."[14]
How did it react to the (far worse) humanitarian situation in Darfur, South Sudan?
Muslim bloc backs Sudan in trying to kill Darfur report in UN human rights forum
The Associated PressPublished: March 14, 2007
GENEVA: Islamic countries said Wednesday they would try to stop the U.N. Human Rights Council from considering a hard-hitting report accusing Sudan of orchestrating atrocities in Darfur on grounds that the mission which produced it did not visit the region.
Instead, a new U.N. mission should be appointed, with the members approved by the Sudanese government, so that human rights violations in Darfur can be investigated properly, senior officials of the Organization of the Islamic Conference told reporters.
"We didn't recognize the mission to have fulfilled its mandate, and we rejected the report," said Babacar Ba, the OIC's representative to the United Nations in Geneva.
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Ba said the OIC had tried to persuade the council's chairman, Luis Alfonso de Alba, "not to release the report because it is a non-report."
The 35-page document, which was drawn up outside the country after Sudan refused to grant the team visas, was posted on the council's Web site on Monday, but it has yet to be taken up by the body.
It urges the United Nations to protect civilians against a Sudanese government-orchestrated campaign in Darfur, where more than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been displaced by four years of fighting.
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Oh. I see.
With me so far?
This one's good, quite witty
Controversies
Due to its passive reaction and inability to react in time to the world events involving Muslim states and Muslims, the OIC is sometimes satirically called "Oh! I See."[14]
How did it react to the (far worse) humanitarian situation in Darfur, South Sudan?
Muslim bloc backs Sudan in trying to kill Darfur report in UN human rights forum
The Associated PressPublished: March 14, 2007
GENEVA: Islamic countries said Wednesday they would try to stop the U.N. Human Rights Council from considering a hard-hitting report accusing Sudan of orchestrating atrocities in Darfur on grounds that the mission which produced it did not visit the region.
Instead, a new U.N. mission should be appointed, with the members approved by the Sudanese government, so that human rights violations in Darfur can be investigated properly, senior officials of the Organization of the Islamic Conference told reporters.
"We didn't recognize the mission to have fulfilled its mandate, and we rejected the report," said Babacar Ba, the OIC's representative to the United Nations in Geneva.
...
Ba said the OIC had tried to persuade the council's chairman, Luis Alfonso de Alba, "not to release the report because it is a non-report."
The 35-page document, which was drawn up outside the country after Sudan refused to grant the team visas, was posted on the council's Web site on Monday, but it has yet to be taken up by the body.
It urges the United Nations to protect civilians against a Sudanese government-orchestrated campaign in Darfur, where more than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been displaced by four years of fighting.
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Oh. I see.