Business, Development and Human Rights

Oct 08, 2021

Reaction to EU Comission Regulation on GSP+ Pakistan : NGOs release join statement

Over the past years, UNPO has been playing a central role in holding Pakistan to account regarding its commitments to the EU’s GSP+ program. This program allows Pakistan to trade freely with the EU in many sectors in exchange for Human Rights compliance on 17 different , that include minority rights. In many cases Pakistan’s fulfillment of the GSP+ program has been found to be non-existent...

Oct 08, 2021

Reaction to EU Comission Regulation on GSP+ Pakistan...

Over the past years, UNPO has been playing a central role in holding Pakistan to account regarding its commitments to the EU’s GSP+ program. This program allows Pakistan to trade freely with the...

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Jun 29, 2021

UN concerned for Hmong in Laos

The Working Group on Enforced Disappearances and seven Special Rapporteurs have sent a second Joint Allegation Letter (JAL UA LAO 3/2021) to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (LPDR). Theis letter...

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Apr 23, 2021

Hmong in Isolation: Atrocities against the Hmong...

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) has released a report documenting an increase in military attacks and repression of the Hmong community indigenous to the Xaisomboun region of...

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Mar 25, 2021

UNPO urgently calls on the international community...

***12 April 2021 UPDATE: The crisis in the region has recently been reported on by Radio Free Asia and ASEAN Today, the latter of which places the military's attacks in the context of foreign investments...

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Feb 10, 2021

Sustainable & Peaceful Societies

The UNPO has observed that State actors are increasingly resorting to concepts of 'national unity' to justify repressive actions against minorities, indigenous populations and self-determination movements....

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Dec 18, 2020

Guam: UNPO petition highlights violations of right...

On 18 December 2020, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and a leading campaigner for the right to self-determination of the CHamoru people of Guam, Hope Alvarez Cristobal, filed...

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Dec 03, 2020

Vietnamese Authorities Sentence four Khmer-Krom...

UNPO strongly condemns the sentence of Mr. Huynh Van Dep , Mr. Tien Dam, Mr. Tien Nam, and Mrs. Thi Pich to up to two years and a half in prison under the article 330 of the Vietnamese penal code and calls...

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Oct 14, 2020

Haratin: Mauritania Criticized Ahead of UN UP...

In July 2020, The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization and its Member, the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA) in Mauritania, jointly filed a report to the United...

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