The Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization -ISESCO- has called upon the Islamic world to give woman more opportunities to better integrate into society and contribute to civilizational edification and human development processes. In a message addressed to the women of the Islamic world on the occasion of the International Woman's Day, ISESCO stressed the need to eliminate the material and moral barriers that hinder women in several Islamic countries from carrying out their role in serving society and furthering its progress. It stated that these obstacles are manmade and are the result of historical accumulations that date back to the ages of backwardness and the forsaking of the Islamic teachings that have guaranteed women the same rights as men in the frame of an integrated system of rules, principles and values. In its message, ISESCO urged on to empower women and to rend up the manacles unwarrantedly restraining them from enjoying their full right to contribute their creative, constructive skills to further the process of resurgence and build up society. In the same spirit, ISESCO explained that the edicts of the Holy Quran and the authenticated sayings of the Prophet can by no means hold women up and prevent them from discharging their societal duties. --more 12 57 Local Time 09 57 GMT
