Mar 23, 2017

West Papua: Human Rights Watch Calls Out Indonesian Restrictions on Freedom of Press

Photo Courtesy of Human Rights Watch Mr Phelim Kine, Deputy Director of the Asia division at Human Rights Watch, sheds a light on the restrictions placed by Indonesian authorities on journalists wanting to report from West Papua. He highlights the case of two French journalists, Jean Frank Pierre and Basille Marie Longchamp, who were detained and deported by Indonesian authorities last week in their...

Mar 23, 2017

West Papua: Human Rights Watch Calls Out Indonesian...

Photo Courtesy of Human Rights Watch Mr Phelim Kine, Deputy Director of the Asia division at Human Rights Watch, sheds a light on the restrictions placed by Indonesian authorities on journalists wanting...

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Mar 22, 2017

Minority Representatives Raise Awareness of Degrading...

On 14 March 2017, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) joined forces with the Asian Legal Resource Centre, the Right Livelihood Award Foundation and the World Sindhi Congress in a...

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Mar 22, 2017

Brazil Taken Before the Inter-American Court for...

Photo Courtesy of UOL A trial against Brazil began yesterday [21st of March] in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights for violations of indigenous rights of the Xukuru people, in the state of Pernambuco,...

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Mar 21, 2017

UNPO Side-Event to 34th Session of UNHRC Highlights...

On 16 March 2017, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), in cooperation with the Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational Transparty (NRPTT), convened a side-event to the 34th Regular...

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Mar 21, 2017

Tibet: China Objects to Dalai Lama’s Participation...

Photo by The Economics Times The Chinese Government on Monday, 20 March 2017, voiced its opposition to India allowing the Tibetans’ spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, to participate...

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Mar 21, 2017

East Turkestan: Video Shows Extent of China Targeting...

  Photo by @sarvaz sarvaz Flickr Chinese authorities use the grossly exaggerated threat of a “mass radicalisation of young Uyghurs” as a pretence to severely curtail religious freedoms...

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Mar 21, 2017

Somaliland: Activists Demand Investigation Into...

Photo by Somalilan Sun In an appalling attack on a boat off Somaliland’s coast which happened last Thursday, 16 March 2017, close to 50 people have been killed, many of them refugees from Somaliland....

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Mar 21, 2017

Barotseland: Litunga Asked to Abdicated for Showing...

Photo by The Barotseland Post The current Litunga of Barotseland, a traditional constitutional monarchy with a long history, was asked to abdicate. His critics accuse the monarch, Lubosi Imwiko II., of...

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