After growing pressure from Tibetan, Chinese and Uyghur rights activists, Google has announced that it will refrain from offering a search engine in the People’s Republic of China. Over the last 10 months, this broad coalition of activists raised its concerns about Google’s plans, known as ‘Project Dragonfly’. The activists argued that a Google search engine in China would compromise...
After growing pressure from Tibetan, Chinese and Uyghur rights activists, Google has announced that it will refrain from offering a search engine in the People’s Republic of China. Over the last...
UN undersecretary general for counterterrorism Vladimir Voronkov has visited China’s Xinjiang province, which has become known for its detention centres in which over one million detained Uyghurs...
In the light of continuing military violence in West Papua since the Indonesian national elections last April [2019], West Papuan activists claim that their boycott of these elections has been a success....
In a new report by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the imprisonment of three Catalan independence leaders has been described as “arbitrary”. In the report, which was released last...
In the face of the continuing crackdown on Uyghur Muslims in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, Uyghur rights advocates have been urging the U.S. Congress to ratify the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of...
30 years ago, in the spring of 1989, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Beijing and assembled at Tiananmen Square, demanding democracy, freedom of speech and an end to the widespread...
A growing number of Assyrians from diaspora communities are travelling to Iraq in order to reconnect with their ethnic and cultural heritage. Organisations such as GISHRU, who are coordinating such journeys...
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...
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.