The OIF's role is to promote peace, democracy and human rights among the 75 states and governments that comprise and represent nearly 900 million people.
An additional opportunity for BICE to make children’s voices heard at the highest level.
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On November 30, 2011, the Permanent Council of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) has granted BICE consultative status, which will allow it to invest more systematically in OIF’s missions.
This news, which we welcome with great satisfaction, has further developed BICE scope, as it already has such status with the Economic and Social Council, UNESCO and the Council of Europe. Consultative status is the starting point for a future collaboration with the institutions of La Francophonie. It will enable the BICE to contribute its expertise in the field of promoting and protecting Child rights to achieve, in conjunction with OIF bodies, missions for education, peace, democracy and human rights in Francophone countries.
BICE has thus also become a member of the Francophonie Conference of International NGOs and CSOs (civil society organisations), which meets every two years in thematic sections. It can now be consulted on the occasion of thematic ministerial conferences for the Francophonie and, where possible, in the Francophonie institutions.
Our organisation is therefore embarking on a dynamic of cooperation, not only with the OIF, but also with other organisations, enjoying equal status and actively working in countries where BICE continues its programs in favor the most vulnerable children.
Remember that the OIF, whose Secretary General is Abdou Diouf, former President of the Republic of Senegal, is a first rate international first institution, which includes over a third of UN member states, all signatories to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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