Starting on 19 April 2010, The Ninth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) held in New York is offering indigenous peoples the opportunity to highlight issues on the topic of ‘development with culture and identity.’ A vast array of UNPO members will be in attendance including representatives from the Ahwazi Arabs, Crimean Tartars, Maasai, Khmer...
Starting on 19 April 2010, The Ninth Session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) held in New York is offering indigenous peoples the opportunity to highlight issues on...
UNPO has released a report on their interaction at the 13th session of the Human Rights Council which took place in Geneva, Switzerland, this March 2010. The session has been one of tremendous...
UNPO's Maggie Murphy made an intervention on behalf of Interfaith International under Item 5 of the 13th Session of the Human Rights Council Agenda: General Debate on the Forum on Minority Issues yesterday...
As a side event to the 13th session of the Human Rights Council, UNPO has coordinated a conference addressing the issues surrounding our member Gilgit Baltistan.
Coinciding with the 13th Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, UNPO has coordinated a series of events and a demonstration to highlight the issues and concerns of it Pakistani members.
The aftermath of the Iranian elections in 2009 pushed people power and protest within Iran onto the front pages worldwide. Most media outlets failed to notice however that a substantial proportion...
A senior U.N. official will visit Burma next week for talks with its military leaders on their plans to hold a national election later this year. The United Nations says its top envoy on human rights in...
The UN human rights special rapporteur for Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana, will visit the country from Feb. 14 to 20.
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