The UNPO's intervention follows five years of research and community consultation on the issue of the Belt and Road Initiative. Our work has indicated that, through its Belt and Road Initiative abroad and its suppressive policies at home, China has become the latest colonial power to emerge on the world stage, with an agenda that is antithetical to the rights of minorities and indigenous communities....
On 31 January 2022, the UNPO submited a letter of complaint to United Nations experts on the human rights impact of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor on minorities and indigenous communities in Pakistan....
On 22 June 2021, independent UN experts issued a Joint Allegation Letter (JAL) to the Viet Nam government concerning the arrest and arbitrary detention of Mr. Duong Khai for his human rights work regarding...
Vietnam signed the Convention Against Torture in late 2013, and ratified the said convention in February 2015. Since then, the South-East Asian country has prided itself for its adoption of the new penal...
Four years after the last report of the Universal Periodic Review working group on the country, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has failed to implement the recommendations issued as a result of this...
On 2 June 2018, the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation (KKF) together with the UNPO convened a one-day international conference at the French Senate in Paris. The conference was the occasion...
In 2014, UNPO’s report on the occasion of Viet Nam’s UPR underlined that the plight of the indigenous Khmer Krom and Hmong was largely centered on poor political will from the central Vietnamese...
The report contains transcripts of the speeches given at the conference, namely the instructive contributions by Mr Urma Paes MEP (ALDE), Ms Johanna Green (Programme Manager at UNPO), Dr Jolan Hsieh (Taiwan...
The report highlights, among others, the marginalization and discrimination faced by Degar-Montagnard women. The violation of their human rights and fundamental freedoms raises serious concern, as their...
For this occasion, UNPO has submitted an Alternative Report to the CESCR focusing on the situation of its members: the Khmer Krom, the Degar Montagnard and the Hmong who are minority groups and indigenous...
For this occasion, UNPO has submitted an Alternative Report to the CESCR focusing on the situation of its members: the Khmer Krom, the Degar Montagnard and the Hmong who are minority groups and indigenous...
UNPO submitted an alternative report in relation to the 53rd pre-sessional working group of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (CESCR) regarding the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. ...
22 December 2010 Two UNPO staff members led a delegation of over 20 representatives of 11 minority groups to participate in the Forum, which took place over the course of three days at...
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Sixty-second session Item 15 of the provisional agenda INDIGENOUS ISSUES Written statement* submitted by the International Federation for the Protection of the Rights...
COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Sixty-second session Item 6 of the provisional agenda RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION Written statement* submitted...
On the occasion of the 80th Session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, UNPO has submitted two reports with highlight the state persecution faced by indigenous and...
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