Sexual Violence

Oct 14, 2020

Haratin: Mauritania Criticized Ahead of UN UPR

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 Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights for consideration of the 37th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. The UNPO General Secretary,...

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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Jul 26, 2019

Hmong: Suffering of the Hmong Highlighted During...

On 15 July 2019, the Captive Nations Summit was held in Washington D.C. to recognize peoples suffering under the oppression of communist and other totalitarian regimes. It provided US policy-makers...

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Jul 16, 2019

Pakistan silent on Chinese rights violations of...

Reports are surfacing indicating that Pakistan is failing to protect its religious minorities and unrepresented people subject to human rights violations in China. Up to 200 Uyghur women who are the wives...

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Jul 15, 2019

Hmong in Isolation

UNPO and Congress of World Hmong People submit joint report to the UN highlighting the desperate plight of the Hmong in Laos.

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Nov 19, 2018

Taiwan: Activists in New York Rally for Marriage...

More than 100 people gathered in the legendary Stonewall Inn to raise awareness and money ahead of the crucial 24 November 2018 election. Last year, Taiwan’s constitutional court ruled that same-sex...

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Oct 05, 2018

Persecution & Marginalization of Hmong Women...

On Thursday 4 October 2018, UNPO submitted a report for the 71st session of the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), during which the Lao People’s...

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Oct 05, 2018

Choice of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Acknowledges...

On Friday 5 October 2018, the Nobel Prize Committee announced its Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. This year, the winners were Dr Denis Mukwege and Ms Nadia Murad for their work for and with survivors of sexual...

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Sep 07, 2018

Op-Ed: The Dystopian reality of Iran

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...

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