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 destruction and the assistance provided to the victims is nonexistent. As a result, once again the local Ahwazi Arabs are taking the streets. As protests in the region escalate, authorities try...
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...
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...
A man-made flood derived from the opening of Dez Dam obliged families to flee from their homes in Rofayyeh, in the Ahwaz region. In 2016 a similar situation destroyed thousands of farmers’ livelihoods,...
“It died at 9am in the morning of Saturday [26 January 2019]”, says one member of the indigenous community Nao Xohã in reference to the river Paraopeba. The community composed of 18...
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) has previously discussed the possible consequences of Bolsonaro’s victory for the Indigenous Communities in Brazil. In the period between...
Fyneface Dumnamene, spokesman for the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has debunked the claims of the organisation being succeeded by the Ogoni Central Indigenous Authority (OCIA)....
In the second most “water rich” country in the world, the mismanagement and poor quality of this vital resource is an obstacle that negatively impacts people in Nepal, especially those living...
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor's: Assessing the Environmental Consequences of CPEC December 11, 2018 12:00pm to 02:00 pm The University Club of Washington, D.C 1135 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20036,...
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.