OIC NEWS
OIC Countries to establish Young Entrepreneurs Network Baku, Azerbaijan – The Founding Convention of the “OIC Countries Young Entrepreneurs Network” (ICYEN), co-organized by the Islamic Conference Youth Forum for Dialogue and Cooperation (ICYF-DC), Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the Government of Azerbaijan, was held in Baku, Azerbaijan on 22- 23 November of 2011. ICYEN is envisaged to be an international network subsidiary to ICYF-DC aiming to provide a platform for young entrepreneurs of the Muslim World, to enhance and develop their business skills, to support growth of the OIC economies through promoting youth entrepreneurship and to facilitate sharing of innovative ideas and best practices among young entrepreneurs on a global level. The goodwill message of Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of the OIC, was delivered to the participants of the opening ceremony. Leyla Aliyeva, the ICYF-DC General Coordinator for Intercultural Dialogue, Elshad Iskandarov, the Secretary General of the ICYF-DC, Dr. Hasan Ibrahim Almohannadi, Vice-president of Qatar
Committee for Alliance of Civilizations, Fikret Akchura, UN Resident-Coordinator to Azerbaijan and Azeem Ibrahim, the President of “Ibrahim Associates” also addressed the meeting. The Convention highlighted the launch of a new global award for young Muslims from across the world titled “10 Young Muslims Who can Change our World”. Baku Founding Convention will establish the ICYEN by assembling national associations of young entrepreneurs and/ or innovative enterprises led by young people, representing OIC member countries and large Muslim communities in non-Member States who are dedicated to development of their communities and contribute to enhancement of young entrepreneurship. The Convention will also provide an opportunity for networking entrepreneurs at different levels and across the region. The outcomes of the Convention were presented at the Second Global Entrepreneurship Summit held in Istanbul on 3- 5 December, 2011.
Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation agree on future activities Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – The Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation convened the seventh meeting of its General Assembly on 4 and 5 October 2011 at the Conference Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The meeting unanimously recommended appointment of the President General of Youth Care in Saudi Arabia Prince Nawaf bin Faisal for the post of Chairman of the Federation’s Board of Directors in the next term. The General Assembly discussed several topics and made decisions and recommendations on them. The most important of these decisions include adoption of the recommendations by the eighth meeting of the Sports Medicine and Drug Control Committee, such as organizing a scientific conference on sports medicine; adoption of the recommendations of the sixth Technical Committee meeting, which included adding some appropriate modifications to
the statutes of the Islamic Solidarity Games; and adoption of the Federation’s competitions, such as the taekwondo tournament in Libya in 2010, the tennis tournament in Egypt in 2011, boxing championship in Syria in 2011, weight lifting championship in Saudi Arabia in 2011 and basketball tournament in Saudi Arabia in 2012. It also mandated the Federation’s General Secretariat to resume contacts with the Olympic committees in those countries to determine the appropriate dates of the tournaments. Also, the flag handing over ceremony of the third Islamic Solidarity Games, which will be organized in Indonesia in 2013, was held on 5 October 2011. A ceremony in honor of Prince Sultan bin Fahd bin Abdul Aziz, Chairman of the Board in the previous period, was also held during the event.
OIC participates in 3rd Symposium on International Terrorism
Antalya, Turkey – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) took part in the 3rd Symposium on International Terrorism and Transnational Crime organized by the International Terrorism and Transnational Crime Research Center (UTSAM) on 9 -11 December 2011 in Antalya, Turkey. The 3rd edition of the Symposium has pooled together academic experts and practitioners from 25 countries, together with representatives from a number of regional and international organizations, and NGOs. The discussions focused on the challenges facing the prevention of and fight against terrorism and cross-border criminality, as well as the 40
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evolving patterns of terrorist acts and counter-radicalization efforts. An entire session was dedicated to an interactive exchange of views about the uprisings unraveling in a number of Arab-Islamic states and their potential impact on the security and stability of the region and beyond. The President of the Turkish National Police Academy, the host of the Symposium, lauded in his keynote address, the recent preparatory meeting held in Jeddah of the OIC Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) as conveying a strong message against the skewed perception that Islam and human rights are not congenially compatible.