ISLAMABAD – Pakistan, in its capacity as the chair of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM), will host a one-day conference on rights of women in Islam on March 8 at the UN Headquarters.
The conference will be held under title, “Women in Islam: Understanding the Rights and Identity of Women in the Islamic World” on the sidelines of the 67th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), said Foreign Office Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch in a weekly briefing on Thursday.
“The objective of the moot is to bridge the perception-reality gap on the rights of women in Islam and celebrate the experiences and successes of iconic Muslim women,” she said.
The forum will aim to establish an Annual Policy Dialogue on the margins of CSW to address challenges and explore opportunities to advance the role of women role in OIC countries, Baloch said.
Meanwhile, the spokesperson strongly condemned killing of 11 Palestinians by Israeli forces in the West Bank. She said “these brutal attacks that have resulted in killing of innocent civilians in occupied Palestinian territories”.
“Pakistan reiterates full support to the Palestinian people and call for a total withdrawal of Israel from the occupied Arab territories including Jerusalem.”
There should be a restitution of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to exercise self-determination and sovereignty in an independent and viable state of Palestine on the basis of pre-1967 borders with Al-Quds Al-Sharif, as its capital.
“We also call for a just resolution to the plight of Palestinian refugees in accordance with the General Assembly Resolution, 1943 of 11 December, 1948,” she said.
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