Guiding Principles
As a United Nations DPI accredited organisation, OPPF supports and respects the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
Several international agreements, conventions and declarations, guide the work of OPPF:
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa
The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol
UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948