Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
SUMMARY
November 23, 2023

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is the second largest inter-governmental organisation after the United Nations, with the membership of 57 states, covering four continents. The OIC is the collective voice of the Muslim world to ensure and safeguard their interest on economic socio and political areas.The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the OIC Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir participated in the Emergency Virtual meeting of the Contact Group on Jammu and Kashmir held on 22 June 2020. The OIC Secretary General chaired the meeting.

Topics: human rights abuses in Indian and Pakistan administered Kashmir

Terms: fake encounters, cordon and search operations, weaponizing covid-19 pandemic, unlawful occupation of Kashmir

ARTICLE PREVIEW

Demanded that India:

  • Rescind its unilateral and illegal actions, and allow the Kashmiri people to freely exercise their right to self-determination through a UN-supervised plebiscite;
  • halt its human rights violations, stop indiscriminate use of force including the use of pellet guns, lift the unabated military siege and inhuman lockdown, repeal its draconian emergency laws, allow exercise of fundamental freedoms, and release all illegal detainees;
  • stop any moves towards changing the demographic structure of IOJ&K, as they are illegal and in violation of international law, particularly the 4th Geneva Convention.
  • provide unhindered access to the OIC, IPHRC and UN Fact Finding Missions, OIC Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Jammu and Kashmir, and international media to investigate into human rights violations in IOJ&K;
  • agree to the call made in the OHCHR’s report to establish a Commission of Inquiry to conduct comprehensive independent international investigations on human rights violations in Kashmir.

It also: 

  • Requested the Office of UN OHCHR to continue to monitor the situation of human rights in IOJ&K with a view to continuing reporting on the matter.
  • Requested the OIC Secretary-General to direct the Humanitarian Department at the General Secretariat to examine and analyze the egregious violations of international human rights and humanitarian standards in the deepening crisis in IOJ&K – with particular reference to the COVID-19 Pandemic – with a view to evolving ways and means to address its gravity and adverse impact on the lives and livelihoods of Kashmiri people in IOJ&K.
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June 2020

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