The OIC Awards its Prize for Women's Achievements to Three Winners

Date: 03/12/2018

The President of Burkina Faso H.E. Roch Marc Kabore and the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen presented the OIC Prize for Women’s Achievements to three prominent awardees, a Palestinian woman, a Turkish association, and a Burkinabe organization. The award is a tribute to their outstanding contributions in the field of women empowerment in the OIC Member States.

The award ceremony was held on the sidelines of the 7th Ministerial Conference on the Role of Women in the Development of OIC Member States in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on December 1, 2018.

The winners - Burkina Faso Association (RAMA), the Turkish Women and Democracy Association (KADEM) and Hiba Alhindi a Palestinian influencer– are the first recipients of the OIC Prize for Women’s Achievement, to be presented every two years. The awards are in recognition of the contributions of women and institutions in the development of the Member States or have a significant impact on the empowerment of women in the Member States or in Muslim communities in non-member States.

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