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 challenges that Iran is facing, which are largely the result of Iran’s mismanagement of its water and natural resources. Combined with the effects of climate change, these policies have...
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...
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,...
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