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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.
February 12, 2026 at 12:40 PM
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.
🎉 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
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
February 11, 2026 at 11:30 AM
🎉 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
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...
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...
February 10, 2026 at 12:08 PM
📘 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...
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...
academy.unpo.org/tala-hamza-m...
February 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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...
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...
Read more here: academy.unpo.org/wp-content/u...
February 7, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Language is more than communication, it is the foundation of identity, culture, and self-determination.
Read more here: academy.unpo.org/wp-content/u...
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-...
🔗Read the full story: peoplesrepresented.com/the-case-of-...
February 5, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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-...
🔗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...
Read more here: unpo.org/unpo-submiss...
February 3, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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...
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...
Read more here: academy.unpo.org/unpo-and-uni...
February 1, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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...
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...
🔗 Read the full story here: peoplesrepresented.com/compassion-t...
January 31, 2026 at 11:30 AM
🌧️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...
🔗 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
#Nonviolence #Tibet #EastTurkestan #WestPapua #Assyria
January 30, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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
#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...
Read the powerful story of cultural resilience and peaceful resistance.
👉 peoplesrepresented.com/guardians-of...
January 29, 2026 at 11:30 AM
🗣️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...
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...
🎧 Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/7Lf0...
January 28, 2026 at 9:53 AM
🎙️ 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...
🎧 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...
More information can be found here: www.tomlantosinstitute.hu/what-we-do/h...
Call for Applications: Global Minority Rights Summer School 2026
Self-determination and Minority Rights
www.tomlantosinstitute.hu
January 27, 2026 at 2:20 PM
🌍 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...
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.
🗞️ Read more: tinyurl.com/mw7dh6w9
🗞️ Read more: tinyurl.com/mw7dh6w9
January 26, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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.
🗞️ Read more: tinyurl.com/mw7dh6w9
🗞️ Read more: tinyurl.com/mw7dh6w9
🎙️ We’re excited to launch Hidden Geopolitics, a new UNPO podcast that looks beyond headlines and borders to amplify voices too often left out. Our first two episodes are out now.
Check it out here: open.spotify.com/show/7ox0nY3...
#UNPO #HiddenGeopolitics #UNPOPodcast
Check it out here: open.spotify.com/show/7ox0nY3...
#UNPO #HiddenGeopolitics #UNPOPodcast
January 23, 2026 at 12:03 PM
🎙️ We’re excited to launch Hidden Geopolitics, a new UNPO podcast that looks beyond headlines and borders to amplify voices too often left out. Our first two episodes are out now.
Check it out here: open.spotify.com/show/7ox0nY3...
#UNPO #HiddenGeopolitics #UNPOPodcast
Check it out here: open.spotify.com/show/7ox0nY3...
#UNPO #HiddenGeopolitics #UNPOPodcast
Solidarity isn’t soft — it’s a force of resilience in a world that won’t sit still. 🌍
Read UNPO’s inaugural editorial piece in Peoples Represented:
🔗 peoplesrepresented.com/solidarity-i...
Read UNPO’s inaugural editorial piece in Peoples Represented:
🔗 peoplesrepresented.com/solidarity-i...
January 22, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Solidarity isn’t soft — it’s a force of resilience in a world that won’t sit still. 🌍
Read UNPO’s inaugural editorial piece in Peoples Represented:
🔗 peoplesrepresented.com/solidarity-i...
Read UNPO’s inaugural editorial piece in Peoples Represented:
🔗 peoplesrepresented.com/solidarity-i...
The Kurdish people in Iran are fighting for dignity and justice, facing brutal repression. We stand with them for freedom and human rights. ✊ #Kurdistan #Iran #HumanRights #Justice #Freedom #Solidarity
January 16, 2026 at 5:49 PM
The Kurdish people in Iran are fighting for dignity and justice, facing brutal repression. We stand with them for freedom and human rights. ✊ #Kurdistan #Iran #HumanRights #Justice #Freedom #Solidarity
Somaliland has spent more than three decades building stability, democratic institutions, and internal cohesion, despite remaining without international recognition.
Read full article here: academy.unpo.org/somaliland-b...
Read full article here: academy.unpo.org/somaliland-b...
January 16, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Somaliland has spent more than three decades building stability, democratic institutions, and internal cohesion, despite remaining without international recognition.
Read full article here: academy.unpo.org/somaliland-b...
Read full article here: academy.unpo.org/somaliland-b...
UNPO has joined a joint civil society call urging the UN Human Rights Council to convene a Special Session on Iran, in response to the mass killing of protesters and the ongoing internet shutdown.
Accountability, truth, and justice for the people of Iran cannot wait.
impactiran.org/2026/01/16/j...
Accountability, truth, and justice for the people of Iran cannot wait.
impactiran.org/2026/01/16/j...
January 16, 2026 at 12:10 PM
UNPO has joined a joint civil society call urging the UN Human Rights Council to convene a Special Session on Iran, in response to the mass killing of protesters and the ongoing internet shutdown.
Accountability, truth, and justice for the people of Iran cannot wait.
impactiran.org/2026/01/16/j...
Accountability, truth, and justice for the people of Iran cannot wait.
impactiran.org/2026/01/16/j...
Voices unheard. Stories untold.
UNPO launches Peoples Represented, a new magazine written by journalists from UNPO communities, created in collaboration with First Draft Media.
🗞️ Our first edition "Solidarity" is available now for free. Subscribe & help amplify 300M+ voices: peoplesrepresented.com
UNPO launches Peoples Represented, a new magazine written by journalists from UNPO communities, created in collaboration with First Draft Media.
🗞️ Our first edition "Solidarity" is available now for free. Subscribe & help amplify 300M+ voices: peoplesrepresented.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Voices unheard. Stories untold.
UNPO launches Peoples Represented, a new magazine written by journalists from UNPO communities, created in collaboration with First Draft Media.
🗞️ Our first edition "Solidarity" is available now for free. Subscribe & help amplify 300M+ voices: peoplesrepresented.com
UNPO launches Peoples Represented, a new magazine written by journalists from UNPO communities, created in collaboration with First Draft Media.
🗞️ Our first edition "Solidarity" is available now for free. Subscribe & help amplify 300M+ voices: peoplesrepresented.com
Iran’s current protests are not only about rising prices, they reflect a deeper collapse of trust between society and the state.
👉 Read our new article here: academy.unpo.org/iran-faces-n...
👉 Read our new article here: academy.unpo.org/iran-faces-n...
January 12, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Iran’s current protests are not only about rising prices, they reflect a deeper collapse of trust between society and the state.
👉 Read our new article here: academy.unpo.org/iran-faces-n...
👉 Read our new article here: academy.unpo.org/iran-faces-n...
UNPO has submitted a report to the UN Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights warning that overly broad and politicised definitions of “terrorism” are increasingly used to suppress self-determination movements worldwide.
Read more here: unpo.org/unpo-calls-f...
Read more here: unpo.org/unpo-calls-f...
January 9, 2026 at 1:35 PM
UNPO has submitted a report to the UN Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights warning that overly broad and politicised definitions of “terrorism” are increasingly used to suppress self-determination movements worldwide.
Read more here: unpo.org/unpo-calls-f...
Read more here: unpo.org/unpo-calls-f...
Iran’s latest wave of protests reflects more than economic hardship. It exposes decades of political exclusion, repression, and human rights violations against non-Persian peoples, including Kurds, Western Balochs, Ahwazi Arabs, and Southern Azerbaijanis.
Read more here: unpo.org/irans-protes...
Read more here: unpo.org/irans-protes...
January 8, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Iran’s latest wave of protests reflects more than economic hardship. It exposes decades of political exclusion, repression, and human rights violations against non-Persian peoples, including Kurds, Western Balochs, Ahwazi Arabs, and Southern Azerbaijanis.
Read more here: unpo.org/irans-protes...
Read more here: unpo.org/irans-protes...
📢 Stay connected with UNPO! Join our official WhatsApp channel to get the latest updates on our advocacy, events, and news from unrepresented nations and peoples.
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See you there! 😉
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See you there! 😉
January 7, 2026 at 10:37 AM
📢 Stay connected with UNPO! Join our official WhatsApp channel to get the latest updates on our advocacy, events, and news from unrepresented nations and peoples.
👉 Join here: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...
See you there! 😉
👉 Join here: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...
See you there! 😉
🌍 What happens when 300 million people who are currently unrepresented are truly heard?
With just 1€, you can help protect identities, defend human rights and make the world a safer place to live.
1€ = 300 million voices
Donate today through our link: unpo.org/donation/one...
With just 1€, you can help protect identities, defend human rights and make the world a safer place to live.
1€ = 300 million voices
Donate today through our link: unpo.org/donation/one...
December 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🌍 What happens when 300 million people who are currently unrepresented are truly heard?
With just 1€, you can help protect identities, defend human rights and make the world a safer place to live.
1€ = 300 million voices
Donate today through our link: unpo.org/donation/one...
With just 1€, you can help protect identities, defend human rights and make the world a safer place to live.
1€ = 300 million voices
Donate today through our link: unpo.org/donation/one...