UNPO, @assembleaint.bsky.social & GDH submitted a report to CERD ahead of Spain’s 2026 review, highlighting systemic discrimination against Catalans, from language rights to political participation and surveillance.
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She survived FGM at eight. Built a hospital with her own pension. Served as minister, diplomat, and UNPO President. Dr. Edna Adan Ismail turned injustice into action. Read the full story and subscribe at www.peoplesrepresented.com/even-one-is-...
In 1917, Crimean Tatar women won the right to vote before most of Western Europe. Over a century later, they're still fighting — this time against occupation, persecution, and erasure. Read the full story and subscribe at peoplesrepresented.com
Through a collaboration with the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, this research looks at how (mis)information, media, and framing impact self-determination movements—and how communities are reclaiming their voice.
Read full article here: academy.unpo.org/determining-...
At #HRC61 and a conference on Balochistan, UNPO highlighted the lived realities of Baloch and Sindhi peoples.
Exclusion drives violations, and makes accountability harder to achieve.
Read more here: unpo.org/unpo-on-balo...
A mother sits on a cold road from morning till night, holding a photograph of her disappeared son. She doesn't demand power. She demands answers.
Read the article in the latest edition of Peoples Represented and subscribe: peoplesrepresented.com/when-the-sta...
UNPO warns that digital technologies are increasingly used to target human rights defenders from unrepresented communities.
Surveillance, shutdowns, and restrictive laws are shrinking civic space and silencing dissent.
Read more here: unpo.org/unpo-calls-f...
China’s new “Ethnic Unity” law raises concerns about its potential impact on cultural and linguistic diversity, particularly for communities such as #Uyghurs, #Tibetans, and #SouthernMongolians, who have already been affected by restrictive policies.
Read more here: unpo.org/new-ethnic-u...
Rising human rights concerns in #GilgitBaltistan demand attention.
Denied medical care and the use of anti-terrorism laws against political expression point to a shrinking civic space, amid broader challenges of limited representation.
More here: unpo.org/unpo-raises-...
📣 Edition No. 3 of Peoples Represented is coming soon: Women.
Their stories. Their communities. Their voices.
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Nearly 30 years after the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, many of its provisions remain unimplemented.
A new analysis examines the gap between national reform narratives and the realities faced by Indigenous Jumma communities in the CHT.
Read more: academy.unpo.org/between-refo...
UNPO is pleased to welcome Hong Kong as part of its Peoples’ Friends framework.
We will work together with the European Hong Kong Diaspora Alliance (EHKDA) to strengthen international awareness, dialogue, and solidarity.
Learn more about Hong Kong here: unpo.org/unpo-expands...
21 youth advocates. 16 unrepresented communities. One shared goal: making their voices heard in digital spaces. Watch what a week with the UNPO Youth Network and the Council of Europe looked like.
🔗Read the full story: unpo.org/unpo-youth-b...
💧 Water doesn't just sustain life — it carries identity, memory, and belonging. The new issue of Peoples Represented, "Water", is here.
📖 Read. Share. Make their voices heard.
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In honour of International Women’s Day, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is organising a webinar bringing together women leaders from Sindh, Somaliland, and Iranian Kurdistan.
📅 Tuesday, 10 March 2026
🕘 17:00 CET
💻 Online: meet.google.com/bpm-yuuw-ibq
UNPO welcomes the UN Special Rapporteur's landmark report on Laos, confirming cultural rights violations against Indigenous Peoples — including the persecution, forced displacement and cultural erasure communities like the Hmong have faced for decades. A significant step toward accountability.
In our latest episode of Hidden Geopolitics, we examine how citizenship laws, state narratives, and structural exclusion have shaped one of the most systematic cases of statelessness in the world.
Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/0zhP...
UNPO proudly welcomes the Rohingya into the Peoples' Friends Framework!
Over 1 million displaced. 600,000 still at risk. Stateless for decades, yet their voices remain unheard. UNPO stands in solidarity with the Rohingya people and their right to self-determination.
#Rohingya #UNPO
Understanding how assimilation, silencing and land control have become tools of modern domination, from Tibet to Southern Mongolia and East Turkestan.
Read "The Anatomy of Chinese Colonialism" on UNPO Academy:
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Our report, Madeira 2025: Reimagining Self-Determination for a Changing World, brings together the key insights and recommendations from the UNPO conference held in Madeira in May 2025.
Read more here: unpo.org/unpo-on-re-i...
A new edition of Peoples Represented drops tomorrow— dedicated to water: access, rights, resistance, and survival.
Don’t miss it. Subscribe today and receive the edition directly in your inbox.
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🎙️ In our new episode, we go to West Balochistan, at the heart of global rivalries.
Caught between great powers, the Baloch face violence, poverty, and repression.
Hear from Nasser Boladai about the realities on the ground. Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/3aWa...
UNPO expresses its support for calls for inclusive political dialogue as the risk of renewed conflict grows in Ethiopia. Sustainable peace requires genuine dialogue, respect for human rights, and meaningful political participation.
Read more here: unpo.org/unpo-support...
The Bellah people in Mali face growing pressures as long-standing social hierarchies, insecurity, and shifting geopolitical dynamics reshape life across the Sahel.
Read more here: academy.unpo.org/from-colonia...
From Kurdistan to Tibet, ecosystems are deliberately destroyed to displace communities and erase identity. When land is destroyed, self-determination becomes impossible.
Why documenting ecocide is essential to justice and survival:
academy.unpo.org/ecocide-and-...
“For every people.” 🌍
This #InternationalMotherLanguageDay, we celebrate the voices that carry identity, dignity, and survival.
Baluchi, Somali, Assyrian, Tibetan, Crimean — every language is a people. Every people has the right to be heard.
"Indonesia’s Silent Occupation” highlights how human rights abuses and environmental destruction are used to suppress the peoples of West Papua, Acheh and the South Moluccas — and why these struggles matter for regional peace and global stability.
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At the World Forum in Berlin (February 2026), Mauritanian abolitionist Biram Ould Dah Ould Abeid reflected on why democracy must be reinvented if it is to serve equality rather than preserve inherited privilege.
Read more here: unpo.org/reinventing-...
UNPO has submitted input to the WGEID and the Committee on Enforced Disappearances on how authoritarian governments use enforced disappearance as a tool of transnational repression.
Read more here: unpo.org/unpo-highlig...
New episode of Hidden Geopolitics explores land, militarisation, Chamorro identity, and what self-determination means for an unrepresented territory still awaiting decolonisation.
🎧 Listen now: open.spotify.com/episode/7GFG...
#HiddenGeopolitics #Guam #SelfDetermination
