Since 2001 Eritrea has become a militarized state where the government started arresting journalists and representatives who demanded democratic reforms for the country as well as to repress freedom of the press and expression. After the Rio Olympics in 2016, the world got to know about the struggle faced by the Oromo people thanks to the Ethiopian marathon runner Feyisa Lilesa who made a gesture of...
Since 2001 Eritrea has become a militarized state where the government started arresting journalists and representatives who demanded democratic reforms for the country as well as to repress freedom of...
As the Indonesian government intensifies its crackdown on peaceful Papua activists seeking their integral right to self-determination, the state authorities attempt to silence a female human rights lawyer...
On the 1st of October, which marked the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) together with the World...
Today [23 September 2019], nine Catalan pro-independence activists have been arrested by the Spanish police for allegedly planning violent actions ahead of Catalonia’s Independence Day celebrations....
Against the backdrop of a recent surge in protests in West Papua against the systemic oppression and marginalisation of West Papuans, Indonesian authorities have cracked down on the protest movement by...
After surviving several assassination attempts over the past years, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was killed in Germany last month [August 2019]. This is one example of the systemic threatening, torture and targeted...
Somaliland fulfils all requirements for statehood, including the hosting of regular free and fair elections, the capacity to defend itself, and the issuing of its own passports and currency. Nonetheless...
The fate of Jimmy Al Daoud, who died in Baghdad shortly after being forcibly deported from the US, has sparked fear amongst the Assyrian Christian community in the US. As part of President Donald Trump’s...
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