With glacial melting on the rise due to climate change, the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Northern Pakistan are threatened by the overflow of glacier lakes. The second phase of the Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) Risk Reduction Project in Gilgit-Baltistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa intends to step up efforts to prevent this natural catastrophe and improve local communities’ capabilities...
With glacial melting on the rise due to climate change, the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Northern Pakistan are threatened by the overflow of glacier lakes. The second phase of the Glacier...
On 22 May 2019, the Brussels International Center for Research and Human Rights (BIC) published a report titled Iran and Climate Refugees: An Alarming Situation. The report identified the severe environmental...
Yesterday [16 May 2019], people in Niger Delta region commemorated Major Isaac Jasper Adaka Boro, one of the pioneers of minority rights activism in Nigeria who inspired thousands, including Ken Saro Wiwa,...
On the 9th of April 2019, UNPO member The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has issued a press release in which it calls for the dissolution of the governing body of the Hydrocarbon...
A Dutch court has assumed jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell, which has been accused to be complicit in the Nigerian government’s execution, in 1995, of nine Ogoni activists,...
As witnessed in UNPO’s recent report on human rights situation in Iran, the Iranian province of Khuzestan has been facing environmental disasters for years. The regime’s water policies is causing...
European Parliament | Brussels, Belgium 2 April 2019 | 18:30 – 21:00 | Room ASP 1G2 On 2 April 2019, MEP Marisa Matias (GUE/NGL) will host the documentary screening of Empate, with the participation...
Eight years ago, recommendations were made to the Nigerian government to begin a cleanup of Ogoniland and a restoration of oil-polluted areas of the region. Today [12 March 2019], there are still proof...
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is an international, nonviolent and democratic membership organisation. Its Members are indigenous peoples, minorities, unrecognised States and occupied territories that have joined together to defend their political, social and cultural rights, to preserve their environments and to promote their right to self-determination.