Guiding Principles

OPPF is an United Nations DPI accredit organisation and supports and respects the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

Several international agreements guides the work of OPPF:

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW-OP)
• Declaration on the Protection of Women and Children in Emergency and Armed Conflict
• Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women
• UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security
• Millennium Declaration and Millennium Development Goals
• The 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol
• Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa

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