The OIC Women’s
Advisory Council is convening its fifth meeting at the Jeddah-based General
Secretariat, on 3-4 November 2019, at the invitation of the Chair of the
seventh session of the Islamic Ministerial Conference on Women, Burkina Faso’s
Ministry of Women, National Solidarity, Family and Humanitarian Action, with
the coordination of the OIC General Secretariat.
The meeting will review the outcome of the two working groups established
during the Council’s fourth meeting on the strategy to publicize the OIC Plan
of Action for the Advancement of Women (OPAAW).
In the presence of Burkinabé minister of women’s affairs, Ms Hélène Marie
Laurence Ilboudo Marcha, the meeting will further refine the OIC
Gender Policy Concept Paper, and review preparations for the OIC to partake in
the 64th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW),
planned to take place in the United Nations Headquarters in New York in March
2020.
Participants will also explore avenues to implement the resolutions of the
seventh Islamic Ministerial Conference on women (Ouagadougou, 2018), and the
ways to enhance the status of Palestinian women.
The Council is composed of nine members representing the OIC three geographical
regions (Arab, Africa and Asia).