OIPMA

Organisation Internationale pour les Pays les Moins Avancés (OIPMA)

International Organisation for the Least Developed Countries (IOLDCs)

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