During the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that there is an urgent need to improve the U.N. Standard-Setting Process Importance of Criteria of Consistent with International Law and its Progressive Development
During the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that there is an urgent need to improve the U.N. Standard-Setting Process Importance of Criteria of Consistent with International Law and its...
In the context of lands, territories and resources, the right to restitution is critical to Indigenous peoples. In addressing reparation or redress, restitution is the primary form of reparation
The eleventh session of the inter-sessional Working Group on the Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (WGDD) will take place from 5 16 December 2005, at the United Nations Office at ...
According to an independent indigenous support group activist who has observed all the sessions of the WGDD since 1995, the eleventh session will witness "the big fire works". For last one decade, the...
UN-GA President Jan Eliasson today expressed the hope that consultations on a new and strengthened human rights body, will be wound up by the end of next month to allow a seamless transition from the existing...
Heads of states represented in the UN failed to reach a substantial agreement on significant reform as yet again the lowest common denominator prevailed, say disappointed members of the high-level reform...
On 20 October 2005 a UNESCO resolution reaffirmed the "sovereign right of countries" to pursue policies aimed at "protecting and promoting the diversity of cultural expressions on their territory" and...
U.S.committed to working with other U.N. members to replace the current UNCHR with a new and more effective body before March 2006, says senior U.S. official
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is an international membership-based organization established to empower the voices of unrepresented and marginalized peoples worldwide and to protect their fundamental human rights.