OIPMA FEATURED STORIES
OIPMA’s work and activities are recognized by our peer organizations. Below is a selection of media press coverage about the Organisation pour les Pays les Moins Avancés (OIPMA – IOLDCs) and its President, Saeed Mokbil.
European Criminal Bar Association (2022) – Open Letter to the Member States and Observers of the UN Human Rights Council
Pulsul Geostrategic (2021) – Ambassador Saeed MOKBIL: “Over the past 20 years, the UN General Assembly, the UN Security Council, and the Human Rights Council have adopted over a hundred resolutions condemning the activities of mercenaries and those who use them”
University of Copenhagen (2019) – Relationship between private military and security companies and the extractive industry from a human rights perspective, Report of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination, A/HRC/42/42
Altinget Denmark (2018) – UN human rights experts call for more resources to stop armed conflict in Chad and the region
Human Rights Council – 39th UNHRC (2018) – Use of Mercenaries, Violating Human Rights – Intervention of Mr. Saeed Mokbil, President of the WG (Youtube video)
UN Human Rights Office (2018) – UN expert group on mercenaries to visit Austria
UN Human Rights Office (2018) – Working group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination
UN General Assembly – 73rd Session (2018) – Use of Mercenaries, 3rd Committee: Chair/Rapporteur of the Working Group: Saeed Mokbil (Youtube video)
United Nations (2018) – Mercenaries, Private Military Contractors Can Destabilize Rule of Law, Expert Tells Third Committee, amid Calls to End Racism, Respect Migrant Rights
United Nations (2018) – OIPMA’s Written Submission to UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement
UN Geneva (2018) – Human Rights Council discusses the use of mercenaries and the management of hazardous waste
Relief Web (2018) – UN expert group on mercenaries to visit Chad
Ukraine Crisis Media Center (2016) – Ukraine’s government of should draw up a strategy and plan action on foreign engagement in the armed conflict, within the framework of Minsk Protocols – UN Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries and Human Rights
Ref World (2016) – Preliminary findings by the UN Working Group on the use mercenaries on his Mission to Ukraine
