On 26 July 2017, Mr Dolkun Isa, General Secretary of the World Uyghur Congress and UNPO Member, was arrested by 15-20 General Investigations and Special Operations Division (DIGOS) officers outside the entrance of the Italian Senate. Mr Isa was scheduled to speak at a conference organised by UNPO in collaboration with the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty and hosted by...
On 26 July 2017, Mr Dolkun Isa, General Secretary of the World Uyghur Congress and UNPO Member, was arrested by 15-20 General Investigations and Special Operations Division (DIGOS) officers outside...
Photo Courtesy of Meydan TV The Talysh, an ethno-linguistic people living in areas of South-Eastern Azerbaijan and Northern Iran, continue to demand cultural autonomy. Since the collapse of the Soviet...
Photo Courtesy of The Guardian The United Nations (UN) has announced its commitment to support the Ogoni clean-up that was launched in June 2016. In January of this year, the Ogoni traditional rulers,...
Photo courtesy of thestandard.com.hk On 25 July 2017, Liverpool Football Club announced Tibet Water Resources Limited (TWRL) as their new Official Regional Water Partner in China. TWRL is commercially...
Supporters of Edgar Lungu hold up his portrait after he was declared the winner of the Zambian presidential race. Picture: GETTY IMAGES/AFP/DAWOOD SALIM As the Zambian government deploys increasingly...
On 24 July 2017, world-renowned antislavery activist and president of IRA (Initiative for the Resurgence of Abolitionism) Mauritania Biram Dah Abeid has seen his passport confiscated by the Mauritanian...
On 26 June 2017, Uyghur human rights activist and member of the UNPO Dolkun Isa, who was scheduled to speak at the Italian Senate, was stopped by the authorities and brought to the police station...
Photo Courtesy of NCRI On 14 July 2017, a group of people and activists from Urmia region formed a human chain around the lake to demand its protection, despite the security forces’ intervention. ...
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