Politics & Diplomacy

Dec 03, 2018

Ogaden: ONLF Leadership Returns to Ethiopia

On Saturday 1 December, the leadership of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) returned to Ethiopia from their exile in Eritrea. The delegation was welcomed in the airport by the Ethiopian Minister of Finance, Ahmed Shide, and the president of the Somali Regional State, Mustafa Omer. Earlier this year the Ethiopian government removed the ONLF from its list of terrorist groups. UNPO welcomes...

Dec 03, 2018

Ogaden: ONLF Leadership Returns to Ethiopia

On Saturday 1 December, the leadership of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) returned to Ethiopia from their exile in Eritrea. The delegation was welcomed in the airport by the Ethiopian Minister...

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Dec 03, 2018

Torture & the Khmer Krom People

On 12 October 2018, UNPO submitted a report to the United Nations Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) concerning the continuous grave human rights violations against the indigenous Khmer Krom people in Mekong...

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Nov 30, 2018

Leaders of Barotseland Continue to be Imprisoned...

UNPO calls upon the international community to address the issue of the leaders of Barotseland being unjustly detained in Zambia. The detentions take place in the scope of the generally and continuously...

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Nov 29, 2018

Iran: National Pressure for Regime Change Has...

As international pressure for regime change in Iran grows, minority groups such as the Baluch, Ahwazi Arabs and Kurds play an important role in the national political context. Supported by the Iranian...

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Nov 28, 2018

Assyria: New Report Shows Quota Representation...

The Assyrian Policy Institute has published a report in which it highlights how the legislation for representation by quota is flawed, and in fact allows for further suppression of the Assyrian population...

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Nov 27, 2018

Taiwan: DPP Lost Elections Based on Local Issues...

Whilst it’s regrettable that the KMT made gains during last week’s election, one tangible benefit of the result may be that after a few years of intense rivalry between Taipei and Beijing,...

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Nov 27, 2018

Somaliland: Conditions Set for Talks to Resume...

According to the Ambassador of Somaliland, if talks are unnecessary then it is needless to resume them. The President of Somaliland stated that unless Somalia recognises Somaliland, then it is difficult...

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Nov 26, 2018

Crimean Tatars: Tensions between Russia and Ukraine...

Tensions are rising in Crimean shores as the dispute over the sovereignty of the Peninsula between Russia and Ukraine finds its way into yet another standoff between each other’s respective militaries....

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