At the Human Rights Council today, 13 March 2008, the Society of Threatened Peoples presented a Joint NGO Statement on Tibet, calling for attention to China’s continuing disregard for Human Rights. UNPO joins other NGOs to call on the Human Rights Council to put pressure on China as the Beijing Olympics draw near.
At the Human Rights Council today, 13 March 2008, the Society of Threatened Peoples presented a Joint NGO Statement on Tibet, calling for attention to China’s continuing disregard for Human Rights....
UNPO is a frontrunner in the newly established peer review mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
UNPO Supports the Petition to appoint a United Nations special Rapporteur on Mapuche Human Rights that was written by Reynaldo Mariqueo special envoy to the European Union. Although democracy has returned...
The restitution of land, representation within the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and recognition as a distinct indigenous group continue to be dreams for Crimean Tatars living in Ukraine in the twenty-first...
Successive military regimes in Pakistan have undermined the provincial autonomy once enjoyed by the Sindh province since it elected to enter a federal Pakistan in 1940. Decades later, and with those promises...
The ethnic Hungarians in Romania have been the subject of a UNPO submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) as part of the latter’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) into the prevailing...
The Human Rights Council has established a new subsidiary body designed to focus on the issues facing indigenous groups and provide expertise to advise and inform the Council.
The sixth session of the UN Human Rights Council has been wrapped up in Geneva, with the Council adopting resolutions on Burma and Myanmar, calling for greater attention to be paid in these areas.
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is an international membership-based organization established to empower the voices of unrepresented and marginalized peoples worldwide and to protect their fundamental human rights.