Dexter Todd appointed member of Organization for Human Rights Defense

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Dexter Mark Godfrey Todd, Attorney-at-Law has been effective from the 27th day of August 2022 appointed as a member of the Organization for Human Rights Defense (OADO). OADO is an Inter-Governmental Organization and is under the United Nations organism of Specialized Agency status, aligned with the ECOSOC. OADO has 3,521 members around the world which includes 61 legal advisors, attorneys, judges, and prosecutors. OADO is charged with the mission and objective to investigate, report, educate, monitor, and police human rights worldwide, bringing abusers of human rights to justice. OADO benefits from its global alliances with other international law enforcement agencies such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the International Police Association (IPA) which includes its role as special liaison to Interpol.

Attorney Todd is the first Guyanese lawyer to be entrusted with such a position and he is expected to oversee three (3) Caribbean countries in his position.

Barbados and Jamaica are the latest Caribbean countries in which the OADO office has been set up.