The UN showed an implicit response to OIC and Sawt Alhikma Center’s call to declare March 15 as International Day to Combat Islamophobia, after SG António Guterres joined an OIC event at the UN headquarters in NY on Wednesday, to commemorate the first anniversary of this day.

Guterres stressed that discrimination and outright hatred towards Muslims has risen to “epidemic proportions”, calling for tackling the global challenge of Islamophobia, as Muslim women confront triple levels of discrimination because of their gender, ethnicity and faith.