Sep 24, 2021

UN raises alarm about Hmong reprisals in UNPO case

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 community to respond to the severe escalation of violence by Laotian government forces against the Hmong community in light of the atrocities suffered. The UN report similarly calls out reprisals from...

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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Jun 29, 2021

UN concerned for Hmong in Laos

The Working Group on Enforced Disappearances and seven Special Rapporteurs have sent a second Joint Allegation Letter (JAL UA LAO 3/2021) to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (LPDR). Theis letter...

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Jun 07, 2021

EU Member State Bilateral Agreements Threaten...

55 pro-democracy activists in exile – with the support of Safeguard Defenders, Hong Kong Watch and the World Uyghur Congress – have called for “urgent coordinated action to suspend all...

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Apr 29, 2021

European Parliament calls for immediate reassessment...

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) welcomes the European Parliament’s 29 April 2021 resolution on the blasphemy laws in Pakistan. The resolution is significant not only for...

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Apr 20, 2021

Khmer Krom: Activist arrested for distributing...

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is calling on the international community to condemn the authorities responsible for the arrest and detention of a Khmer Krom human rights defender...

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Mar 30, 2021

"USA has not supported self-determination...

On 30 March 2021, independent UN experts made public a joint allegation letter (JAL) submitted by three UN Special Rapporteurs to the US Government concerning ongoing human rights violations suffered by...

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Feb 25, 2021

Iran: Minorities Continue to be Systematically...

UNPO strongly condemns the systematic targeting of Baluch and Kurdish border carriers by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and calls upon the international community and the relevant UN institutions...

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