(Reuters) – Most Muslims have been driven out of the western half of conflict-torn Central African Republic, where thousands of civilians risk of being killed “right before our eyes,” the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said on Thursday.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is quite impressive, she is the leader of one the largest emerging economies and nations in the world, and her strong condemnation of Islamophobia in the West in her recent UN Speech has not gone unnoticed.
“The OIC is a strategic and crucial partner of the United Nations and plays a significant role in helping to resolve a wide range of issues facing the world community,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement to the group when it met on Friday.
Although the Asean-US meeting touched mainly on trade security and regional matters Najib took the opportunity to draw Obama’s attention to the issue of Islamophobia a phenomenon which has been on the increase in the US lately.