Dec 15, 2021

UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Releases Report on United States Unrepresented Peoples and Territories

UNPO welcomes UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Dr Fernand De Varennes's mission report evaluating the human rights situation of minorities in the country. It included sections on our members the District of Columbia and Guam as well as other unrepresented minorities and territories that UNPO consistently upholds should have better access and representation in American democratic spheres. UNPO...

Dec 15, 2021

UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Releases...

UNPO welcomes UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Dr Fernand De Varennes's mission report evaluating the human rights situation of minorities in the country. It included sections on our members the...

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Dec 13, 2021

Grassroots Petition Sounds Alarm Over Imminent...

Grassroots activists are petitioning the International Community via the Daadkhast platform to intervene in the cases of Abbas Derris and Mohsen Derris in Iran, the former being at risk of being executed...

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Dec 09, 2021

Special Uyghur Tribunal Investigating Internment...

The independent Uyghur Tribunal in London has found the government of the Peoples Republic of China guilty of committing genocide in its policies in the so called “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region...

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Nov 08, 2021

Kabylia : UNPO calls for investigation into deadly...

UNPO firmly condemns the Algerian government’s response to recent incidents in Kabylia and wishes to see a full international investigation into the Algerian response to Covid-19 and forest fires...

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Oct 18, 2021

Charles Kormi Kudzorzi, leading figure of Western...

UNPO is sad to learn of the death of a great campaigner for peaceful self-determination in West Africa, Charles Kormi Kudzorzi "Papavi", who died at the age of 88 in St Paul’s hospital, Aksthi South,...

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Sep 30, 2021

Vietnam admits arrests for possession of UN Declaration...

The government of Vietnam has admitted that it arrested an indigenous rights activist for possessing translated copied of the United Nations Declartion on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In an extraordinary...

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Sep 24, 2021

UN raises alarm about Hmong reprisals in UNPO...

The UN Secretary General has brought attention to the alarming pattern of reprisals perpetrated by Lao PDR against the indigenous Hmong community. The UNPO have been urgently calling on the international...

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Jul 01, 2021

Khmer-Krom: Detained for wearing UN T-Shirt!

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) decries the detention in Vietnam of a Khmer-Krom activist who was wearing a T-shirt with the logo of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and...

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