OIC
Rights Panel
Won't State
Budget, Will
Go to Myanmar,
But
With Free
Access?
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
December 14 --
The
Organization
of Islamic
Cooperation
(OIC)
has set up an
18 member
Independent
Permanent
Human Rights
Commission.
Spokesman
Rizwan Sheikh
and
chairperson
Siti Ruhaini
Dzuhayatin
held a press
conference in
the UN on
Friday to talk
about
its work, in
advance.
Inner
City Press
began by
thanking them,
on behalf of
the Free UN
Coalition
for Access or
FUNCA, then
asked about
the Rohingya
in Myanmar,
and
the
Commission's
budget. Video
here, from
Minute 18:40.
It
was Rizwan
Sheikh, who
previously
spoke about
the attack on
the US
facility in
Benghazi, who
responded to
both
questions. He
began, "Let
me take the
second
question
first, the
budget would
be..." Then
no monetary
figure was
provided. He
said, "it's a
main statutory
body of the
OIC, in
Article 15 of
the charter...
they determine
it
themselves."
He
said of the 18
Commissioners,
they are "not
regular
employees,"
they get "no
salary or
honoraria" and
will only be
paid
"when
attending
sessions or on
certain
missions."
And
one of these
missions will
be to the
Rohingyas in
Myanmar, he
said:
"The
Commission was
mandated by
Council of
foreign
ministers in
their last
session in
Djibouti to
advice on the
human rights
aspect."
Will they do
more than the
UN to date
has? Will they
have free
movement
inside
Myanmar? The
Free UN
Coalition on
Access wants
to
know. Watch
this site.
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