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60th HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (8 September to 8 October 2025) - OIPMA STATEMENTS

Reaffirming Jus Cogens and Peaceful Dispute Resolution: Supporting United Nations Security Council Resolution 2788 with Yemen as a Case Study

OIPMA/IOLDCs October 2025

OIPMA reaffirms support for UN Security Council Resolution 2788 by emphasizing the primacy of jus cogens norms and peaceful dispute resolution, using Yemen’s protracted conflict—marked by legal collapse, humanitarian crisis, and the rise of the Southern Transitional Council—as a case study to urge renewed international legal frameworks and recognition of the South’s right to self-determination.


OIPMA Calls for Structural Reform and Inclusive Governance to Achieve Sustainable Peace in Yemen

OIPMA urges the Human Rights Council to move beyond conflict management in Yemen by supporting a justice-based resolutions.


OIPMA Statement on Human Rights Violations and Civilian Protection in Eastern DRC

OIPMA condemns escalating human rights violations in eastern DRC—particularly by M23 and other armed groups—calling for urgent action by the Human Rights Council to protect civilians, support local responders, and ensure accountability through independent justice mechanisms.


OIPMA Statement on Human Rights Risks of Emerging Military and AI Technologies

OIPMA warns that the misuse of AI and emerging military technologies threatens human rights, peace, and equality—especially harming women and marginalized groups—and urges stronger global accountability, gender safeguards, inclusive design, and international cooperation to ensure technology upholds, rather than undermines, human rights.

Protecting Civilians and Children in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: A Call for Urgent Action in North Kivu

OIPMA highlights the worsening crisis in North Kivu, DRC, where armed violence, displacement, and collapse of services endanger civilians—especially children. It calls on the Human Rights Council to deploy protection monitors, support local organizations, ensure accountability for human rights violations, restore essential services, and involve communities in post-conflict justice.

How to Address the Catastrophic Humanitarian Crisis in the Sudan by 2025

OIPMA highlights Sudan’s catastrophic humanitarian crisis, worsened by conflict between SAF and RSF and exacerbated by the Sudanese Islamic Movement linked to the Muslim Brotherhood. It calls for a multidimensional response including security sector reform, targeted sanctions, disruption of MB-linked financial networks, regional diplomacy, and strengthened civilian-led governance to protect human rights and enable humanitarian relief.

Climate Change, Conflict, and Human Rights: A Call for Integrated Action Ahead of COP30

OIPMA/IOLDCs Statetement- September 2025

OIPMA urges urgent, integrated action on climate change as a human rights and security crisis, emphasizing support for Least Developed Countries, inclusive decision-making, and climate finance ahead of COP30, in line with ICJ rulings and international law.