The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood is a novel based in the near future about the creation of a totalitarian regime which controls and oppresses all aspects of their citizen’s lives. The novel is often assumed to be primarily feminist or dystopian. However, Atwood titled her book to instead be speculative fiction. This essentially means that Atwood ensured that everything...
The Handmaid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood is a novel based in the near future about the creation of a totalitarian regime which controls and oppresses all aspects of their citizen’s...
The Deputy Chairman of the Meijlis reports that Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Balukh is in serious condition following his imprisonment in a Russian-controlled prison in Crimea. Balukh, 47, has been on...
Since 2011, 30 August has been the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. Enforced disappearance remains a global problem that afflicts people in various countries and with different...
The Human Rights Council of Balochistan and Baloch Human Rights Organisation have published their bi-annual report on the state of human rights in the Balochistan territory occupied by Pakistan. Focusing...
In this op-ed Shima Silavi, Executive Director of Ahwaz Human Rights Organisation (AHRO), gives her response to the recently published draft of the Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the...
11 July 2018 | 11.00 - 14.00 | Room A6G306 European Parliament, Brussels On 11 July 2018 the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), in...
A meeting of the Uyghur Friendship Group, hosted by MEP Csaba Sógor (EPP), discussed the deteriorating human rights situation in China. Special guest and scholar Dr Rachel Harris underlined the...
From 11 to 12 June 2018, Switzerland and China underwent their 16th round of human rights dialogue in Beijing. Although the debate was held in confidentiality it was described as open and critical, focussing...
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.