Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization

Member News

• Taiwan: Plans to Join Trade Bloc within Ten Years

  The Taiwanese President, Mr. Ma Ying-jeou, has outlined plans to significantly improve economic conditions in Taiwan, which will enable the country to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership within a

• Tibet: Rally in Canada for Human Rights

  A group of Tibetans assembled outside the Canadian Parliament, on 2 February 2012, to urge Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. Stephen Harper, to speak out about the human rights crisis in Tibet. Mr. Harper

• Ogaden: UN Concern over Anti-Terrorism Law

  The Ethiopian Government has been called on by UN human rights experts, to respect the human rights of a number of detained journalists and politicians in Ethiopia. The detained individuals are being

• Somaliland: Plans to Establish Central Bank

  Legislation will be passed in Somaliland, before the end of February 2012, to establish the country’s first central bank. At present Somaliland’s domestic banking sector is limited and

• Inner Mongolia: Priests Arrested Without Explanation

  According to Church sources, police have arrested five “underground” priests from the Suiyuan diocese for no apparent reason.

• East Turkestan: Rafto Concerned by Uyghur Persecution

  The Rafto Foundation, who awarded Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer their prestigious prize in 2004, has called on the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to raise the issue of the continuing detentions