UNPO Condemns Life Sentence Imposed on Hushtar Isa
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) condemns the life sentence given to Hushtar Isa, the brother of Dolkun Isa, the head of the World Uyghur Congress. Hushtar Isa's life sentence is the latest in a life marked by repression imposed on the Isa family stemming from Dolkun Isa's participation in the pro-democracy protests in ...
UNPO: The Circassian Genocide
The genocide committed against the Circassian nation by Czarist Russia in the 1800s was the biggest genocide of the nineteenth century. Yet it has been almost entirely forgotten by later history, while everyone knows the later Jewish Holocaust and ma. A professor of the university of Munich (München), Karl Friedrich Neumann (not to be confused ...
UNPO response to the United States Reply to Special Rapporteurs ...
The response of the US government to the communication of the Special Rapporteurs on 21 October 2021, rather than genuinely addressing the Special Rapporteur’s explicit concerns, presents a categorical denial of an indigenous people’s right to self-determination. It is strikingly clear throughout the United States response that indigenous ...
Yoruba - Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
The Yoruba people, numbering over 44 million, are one of the largest and most influential ethnic groups in Africa, predominantly found in southwestern Nigeria. Yoruba identity is deeply rooted in language, culture, and tradition. The Yoruba language, part of the Niger-Congo family, is widely spoken and serves as a cornerstone of Yoruba cultural ...
UNPO: Batwa: New Report Shows Women Are Target for Violence
Read the full report on the Rwanda research project in English and French. Uganda: In the three districts of the study, 100% of the individual Batwa women interviewed had experienced violence with 64% of them experiencing it on an on-going basis or within the past 12 months. 57% of them had experienced sexual abuse and 46% had experience ...
Somaliland: Stable Partner in International Anti-Piracy Scheme
A peaceful enclave in the current chaos that defines the Horn of Africa, the nation provides a regional and reliable asset for international actors attempting to eradicate piracy. Despite challenges posed by its status as an unrecognized state, Somaliland has taken strides past neighboring Somalia in combating this ongoing problem.
UNPO : Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
UNPO welcomes new Advisory Board Dr. Liam... The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is thrilled to announce the addition of five members to its Campaigns Advisory Board, Dr. Liam Saddington and Alexandra Gavilano, Tendor Dorjee and Prof. Francesco Palermo and Dr. Jonathan...
Haratin: Social Exclusion and Poverty Facing Those Who Escape …
Despite claims by the Mauritanian state government that this practice no longer exists, 1 percent of the country’s total population remain in slavery. The majority of those enslaved belong to the Haratin community. Freedom from this enslavement however, does not yet mean access to ‘freedom’. Many emancipated Haratin face a life of poverty ...
Southern Cameroons: An Overview of the Human Rights Situation …
UNPO and the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC) organised a conference to promote the restoration of the autonomous status of Southern Cameroons and to return to the federation created in the 1960. Introduction. Southern Cameroons was part of the British Mandate Territory of the Cameroons in West Africa until independence in 1961 when ...
Message from UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Day
The following is the message of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on the occasion of Human Rights Day, 10 December 2006: The awareness of the stranglehold of poverty on billions of men, women and children around the world, and of how this state of deprivation and misery compromises our common future, has never been ...
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