USCMO Delegation Meets Top UN Peacebuilders On Kashmir

(New York, 10/27/2019) —USCMO representatives met on the dire humanitarian crisis in Kashmir with Peter Due Director of United Nations Asia and the Pacific Division Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations Director. USCMO Secretary General Oussama Jammal called for the UN to dispatch a human rights commissioner to investigate the allegations of […]
USCMO Secretary General Attends Homeland Security Faith-Based Community Safety And Security Symposium

(Washington, D.C., 9/25/2019) USCMO Secretary General received special invitation from the Department of Homeland Security and White House Office of Public Liaison to participate in their Faith-Based Community Safety and Security Symposium. The symposium — conducted by DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and its Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives and held at the […]
Joint Statement on the National Interfatih Consultation: United to Confront Violence Against Places of Worship

(New York, 09/19/2019) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations, the National Council of Churches USA, Religions for Peace USA, and the World Council of Churches Ecumenical UN Office held an interfaith consultation on the theme, “United to Confront Violence against Places of Worship.” The consultation, which grew out of the National Muslim-Christian Dialogue convened […]
USCMO and Interfaith Partners Lead Anti-violence Consultation With UN and American Religious Leaders

On September 19, 2019, the US Council of Muslim Organizations – in partnership with the National Council of Churches, Religions for Peace USA, and the World Council of Churches Ecumenical UN Office – has led the first nationwide consultation among American religious leaders in support of a global project the United Nations launched a week […]
USCMO Secretary General Meets High Representative of UN Alliance of Civilization Antonio Moratinos

(New York, 09/05/2019) — US Council of Muslim Organizations Secretary General Oussama Jammal met with H.E. Miguel Moratinos, High Representative of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC), at his office in New York to discuss collaborating on the critical issue of safeguarding places of worship. Mr. Jammal invited Mr. Moratinos to speak at the upcoming […]
USCMO Urges OIC to Pressure Member Countries for Massive Humanitarian Assistance to Kashmir

(Washington, D.C., 09/04/2019) – USCMO delegation met witht Ambassador Aghsin Mehdiyev, OIC Permanent Observer to the United Nations, at the OIC mission in New York. USCMO Secretary General Oussama Jammal formally requested Ambassador Mehdiyev to convey the grave concerns of the American Muslim community for the welfare the Kashmiri people and the Kashmiri Americans stranded by India’s lockdown […]
USCMO Meets with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Ervin J. Massinga on Kashmir

(Washington, D.C., 08/28/2019) – USCMO and Kashmiri American leaders met with U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Ervin J. Massinga expressing the grave concerns of the American Muslim community for India’s military occupation of Kashmir and repression of its people; and seeking clarification of the United States’ position on the crisis. USCMO officials submitted a […]
USCMO Protests India’s Unilateral Move on Kashmir and Holds Rally in Support of Kashmiri People

(Washington, D.C., 8/16/2019) – USCMOmembers and supporters of Kashmir’s national and human rights rallied in front of the Indian Embassy, formally protesting the massive military and paramilitary invasion of Kashmir (which began at the stroke of midnight, August 4) with some 700,000 soldiers and irregulars of the ruling BJP Hindu chauvinist party’s parent paramilitary organization RSS […]
USCMO Launches Diplomatic Initiative for Kashmir

USCMO’s Emergency Diplomacy to Unmask and Build International Support to Turn Back India’s Invasion, Communications Lockdown and Annexation of Kashmir, and to Restore the Kashmiri People’s Long-Standing Right of Plebiscite [dropcap color=”#f96e5b”]T[/dropcap]he US Council of Muslim Organizations has launched an emergency diplomatic action against the Republic of India’s shocking and internationally illegal massive military occupation […]
Statement of the US Council of Muslim Organizations on the Mass Shootings in Elpaso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio

(Washington, DC, 8/5/2019) – The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), a coalition of several leading national and local organizations and institutions, expresses its heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones of those killed, injured, and terrorized in this weekend’s tragic and senseless mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. USCMO offers its […]