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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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:
👉 buff.ly/7g0ix3n
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
In Guåhan and Puerto Rico, communities continue to navigate political systems where key decisions about land, trade, military expansion, and economic development are made beyond their full democratic control.
Read more here: academy.unpo.org/socioenviron...
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Since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Crimean Tatars have been politically excluded, their cultural heritage suppressed, and their land and environment under threat.
Read more here: academy.unpo.org/crimean-tata...
China’s bid to control the Dalai Lama’s succession could destabilize Tibet and spark deeper resistance — not pacify it.
Read this analysis by on why Beijing’s strategy may backfire and what it means for peace and identity.
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UNPO joined the Geneva Forum 2026 on “Repression and Resilience: Human Rights in Tibet & Regions under China.” Our members from Haratin, Annobon & Kabylia engaged with human rights defenders, while SG Mercè Monje Cano chaired a panel on environmental exploitation & displacement in Tibet.
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🎉 UNPO turns 35 today
Born on 11 February 1991, UNPO has spent 35 years doing one simple thing: making sure unrepresented peoples don’t stay unrepresented
Happy birthday to us, and deep gratitude to the communities, allies, and partners who make this work possible. 🎂
#YearOfSolidarity #StillHere
📘 New book out: rethinking how diplomacy is learned
Diplomatic Training: Histories, Geographies, Politics brings together voices from across the world to examine how diplomatic training shapes international relations, and who it includes.
Read more here: academy.unpo.org/diplomatic-t...
Behind the official story of the Tala Hamza mine in Kabylia lies environmental destruction, cultural erasure, and growing militarization. Communities face land expropriation, pollution, and suppression of their rights, while international law is ignored.
academy.unpo.org/tala-hamza-m...
Language is more than communication, it is the foundation of identity, culture, and self-determination.
Read more here: academy.unpo.org/wp-content/u...
What does solidarity mean for peoples striving for recognition and rights? The Case of Catalonia dives into the limits of solidarity in law, politics, and justice.
🔗Read the full story: peoplesrepresented.com/the-case-of-...
In our submission to the EMRIP, we highlight how recognising Indigenous peoples’ right to self-determination helps address the root causes of conflict and lays the groundwork for sustainable, peaceful, and democratic societies.
Read more here: unpo.org/unpo-submiss...
UNPO is pleased to highlight the University of Toronto’s report on the evolution of grassroots advocacy in today’s complex geopolitical landscape.
Read more here: academy.unpo.org/unpo-and-uni...
🌧️When disaster strikes, who stays — and who just shows up? Where Solidarity Sank tells the story of Acheh after Cyclone Senyar and explores what compassion truly means when help arrives.
🔗 Read the full story here: peoplesrepresented.com/compassion-t...
At a time when digital surveillance, transnational repression, and security narratives limit avenues for advocacy, UNPO’s new policy paper shows that nonviolence is not just moral, it’s strategic.
#Nonviolence #Tibet #EastTurkestan #WestPapua #Assyria
🗣️Across the Mekong Delta, Khmer-Krom Buddhist monks are teaching children their ancestral language — not just as words, but as identity, memory, and dignity.
Read the powerful story of cultural resilience and peaceful resistance.
👉 peoplesrepresented.com/guardians-of...
🎙️ Flash episode of Hidden Politics: UNPO SG Mercè Monje Cano speaks with Sofia Amini (PDKI) on the escalating crisis in Iranian Kurdistan.
🎧 Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/7Lf0...
🌍 Call for Applications: UNPO is joining the Tom Lantos Institute, Ludovika University of Public Service, and the Human Rights Consortium (University of London) for the Global Minority Rights Summer School 2026.
More information can be found here: www.tomlantosinstitute.hu/what-we-do/h...
UNPO’s submission to the UN Working Group highlights how FPIC gives real meaning to self-determination for unrepresented peoples — including the right to refuse. From Guam to West Papua, limiting FPIC fuels ongoing dispossession rooted in colonial legacies.
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