UNPO General Assembly XVII 20-23 April 2023 Barcelona, Spain Member Resolution Situation in Southern Mongolia The UNPO General Assembly; Notes that Southern Mongolia, known as “Inner Mongolia”, home to six million indigenous Mongolians, has been occupied by China since 1949; Notes that...
The following Resolution was adopted at the 2023 General Assembly by UNPO's members :
We urge the Mongolian government to immediately release Mr. Munkhbayar Chuluundorj who was arbitrarily arrested in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, by the General Intelligence Agency (GIA) of Mongolia on February...
A recent report by NGO Safeguard Defenders has revealed the extent and severity of Operation Sky Net, China’s involuntary returns program. Methods deployed to force individuals abroad to return to...
In 2008 China was awarded the chance to host the Olympic Games by the International Olympic Games Committee (IOC) on the claim the human rights situation had improved. However, 2008 was marked by repression...
The Global Day of Action [1] will see protests take place in 61 cities around the world in a show of international solidarity among Chinese human rights defenders, Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers,...
Below is a video published by NHK Chinese authorities are intensifying their crackdown in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on ethnic Mongolians who are staging protests against measures to reduce...
Below is an opionion article by Christina Chan, published by HKFP The ink on my last column about textbook censorship in Hong Kong had barely dried when news broke of China’s plans to impose Mandarin-only...
Below is an artible published by The Diplomat China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi paid a two-day visit to Mongolia on September 15 and 16, holding meetings with Mongolian President Battulga...
Below is an article published by NPR Early this month, parents and students across the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia streamed back to school campuses, not to attend classes, but instead to protest. They gathered by...
Below is an article published by Bitter Winter The unrest in Inner Mongolia, which local Mongols prefer to call Southern Mongolia, about the school reform making Chinese the main language of education,...
Below is an article published by the Washington Post Unusually widespread protests have broken out in ethnic Mongol communities in northern China as Chinese authorities prepare to introduce new measures...
Below is an article by the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC) SMHRIC August 24, 2020 New York Protests from all walks of Southern Mongolian society are escalating after...
Below is an article published by the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center At midnight for the past three days, hundreds of Mongolian teachers across eastern Southern Mongolia, particularly...
Below is an article published by Southern Mongolia Human Rights Information Center On August 13, 2020, more than 300 Mongolian herders from Southern Mongolia’s Durbed Banner took to the streets...
In Pakistan, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a key part of the BRI, has led to massive developments in the Balochistan and Sindh regions of the country. In Balochistan, rapid development of...
Below is an article by Southern Mongolian Human Rights Center (SMHRC) Following a two-month protest, on July 21, 2020, more than 300 Mongolian herders from Bayan-uul Sum (a sum is an administrative unit...
Below is an article published by Sputnik news TORONTO (Sputnik) - More than 60 Canadian lawmakers called for Magnitsky law sanctions against Chinese officials responsible for alleged human rights abuses...
Below is an article by Radio Free Asia Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia are winding up native-language tuition in and around Tongliao city, beginning in September, RFA has...
Below is an article from the Washington Post HONG KONG — Three decades after China massacred pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square, almost 200,000 people filled Hong Kong's Victoria Park,...
Below is an article by the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC) On the morning of June 1, 2020, more than 400 Mongolian herders from Bayan-uul Sum (a sum is an administrative...
Below is an article published by CNBC President Donald Trump and the U.S. Labor Department on Monday directed a board charged with overseeing billions in federal retirement dollars to halt plans to invest...
Below is an article by Politico An EU report about Chinese and Russian disinformation on coronavirus was watered down after pressure from Beijing. Three people confirmed to POLITICO that Chinese...
Below is an article published by the Central Tibet Administration 82 Organizations and Associations predominantly from Central and Eastern Europe have submitted a joint petition for the cancellation...
Below is an article published by the Central Tibet Administration 82 Organizations and Associations predominantly from Central and Eastern Europe have submitted a joint petition for the cancellation...
Below is an article by UN Watch China was appointed on Wednesday to a United Nations Human Rights Council panel where it will play a key role in picking the world body’s human rights investigators...
The demonstration gathered at Square de Meeûs – close to the European Parliament – where a minute of silence was held to commemorate the victims of 70 years of Chinese suppression and...
In the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Communist Party of China implemented a strategy of nationwide social control in order to prevent a recurrence of such dissident movements. It launched...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have detained two more group chat moderators on the social media platform WeChat...
Below is an article published by UNPO Member the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC): On April 4, 2019, Mr. Lhamjab A. Borjigin, a 75-year old Mongolian writer, was tried...
This article was published by Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center: The Ulaanhad Mongolian No. 1 High School of Southern Mongolia’s (known as “Inner Mongolia”) Ulaanhad...
The article below was published by Radio Free Asia Rights groups called on the international community to “stand up to the Chinese government” over rights violations against Uyghurs, Tibetans...
Over the past years, the Chinese government has curtailed further a wide range of fundamental human rights in Tibetan, Uyghur and Mongol populated areas, often in the name of security maintenance, ‘stability’...
Organisers: World Uyghur Congress Keep Taiwan FreeNY4HK - New Yorkers Supporting Hong Kong Rtyc Nynj Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center Uyghur Human Rights ProjectUs-Tibet...
The United Nations has repeatedly expressed concern over enforced disappearances, not only by attempting to draw attention to the issue at large, but also by issuing resolutions to hold those who commit...
[The] report submitted by the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC) on the occasion of the 96th Session of the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...
The article below was published by Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia are holding a prominent ethnic Mongolian historian who gathered testimony of a historical...
The article below was published by the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC): Mr. Lhamjab A. Borjigin, a 74-year-old Mongolian historian, writer and the author of China’s...
UNPO Advocacy Officer Ms Lucia Parrucci opened the symposium by discussing evidences of Chinese interference with international organisations and national governments, especially in Europe, underlining...
The article below was published by Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center. More than 2,000 teachers from all parts of Southern (Inner) Mongolia — including leagues and municipalities...
Ms Sophie Richardson started the debate by giving an instructive speech on the ongoing hostility and repression targeting Uyghur people, as well as journalists and activists. She then brought to the audience’s...
The press release below was published by SMHRIC: As part of China’s escalating crackdown on Mongolian herders’ protests, the People’s Court of Zaruud Banner in eastern Southern...
The article below was published by SMHRIC: The Bayangol No.3 High School, the last school to provide instruction in the Mongolian language in the Bayangol Prefecture of China’s so-called “Xinjiang...
The article below was published by SMHRIC: Commemorating the Human Rights Day on December 10, 2017, the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC) announced the release of the Genocide...
The article below is published by Radio Free Asia: An ethnic Mongolian writer in China's northern region of Inner Mongolia has called on fellow ethnic Mongolians to "rise up" to reclaim their lands and...
In his opening remarks, the conference’s host, MEP Csaba Sógor, pointed out that in many places around the world human rights are overridden by security measures. Especially when...
Southern Mongolia sits within the borders of the People’s Republic of China, where it is officially...
Below is an article published by the SMHRIC The following is an English translation of a short address made by Mr. Nairalt Borjigin, an ordinary Mongolian herder from Bayan-undur Sum of eastern...
The UNPO General Assembly, Reaffirming the Southern Mongolians’ right to self-determination, and right to control, own and manage their ancestral lands and territories and other natural resources; Recalling China’s...
The article below was published by The New York Times: Liu Xiaobo, the jailed Chinese dissident who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his writings promoting democracy, has been given...
The article below was published on the European Parliament website: EU-China Human Rights Dialogue should be strengthened and sharpened, says DROI Chair, Pier Antonio Panzeri (S&D,...
The article below was published by The Economist: Bayin was three when he moved from the eastern grasslands of Inner Mongolia to Chifeng, a city of some 1m people. Like hundreds of thousands...
Below is a press release by the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center: On April 13, 2017, 13 Mongolian herders from Seegen Gachaa of Uul Township in eastern Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s...
Below is a press release by the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC): 3,000 Mongolians take to the streets, 30 arrested, protest continues ...
Below is an article published by the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center Maintaining innocence after being sentenced to jail terms ranging from one year to two years, six...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Hundreds of ethnic Mongolian herders in Inner Mongolia's Heshigten banner have protested repeatedly in recent days over the non-payment of subsidies...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have formally arrested an ethnic Mongolian activist who posted social media comments in...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Police in Chinese-ruled Inner Mongolia arrested four herdsmen on Monday for their role in an organized online petition by 500 herdsmen over promised...
Below is an article published by the Daily Mail: Stunning photographs taken from inside an illegal steel factory in rural China gives a rare glimpse into the brutal working conditions that Mongolian labourers...
Below is a statement published by the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Center: In 2016, for those under China’s rule, freedoms have continued on a steep downward spiral. 2016 has been a year...
Below is an article published by the Financial Times: A remote Chinese border town in the Gobi desert has slapped transport surcharges on copper shipments from Rio Tinto’s Mongolian Oyu...
In his opening remarks, Marino Busdachin, General Secretary of UNPO, shed a light on the fact that since the independence of East Timor, the UN has failed to advance the fulfilment of the right...
Below is Mr Hada's appeal released by Southern Mongolia Watch on 21 November 2016. The original [in Chinese] can be found here. The following is Mr. Hada's appeal to the Supreme People's Court of the...
The article below was published by Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Centre: On October 25, 2016, at 6:40 AM local time, Ms. Huuchinhuu Govruud, human rights defender, dissident...
The article below is courtesy of Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Centre Following a three-day protest, on October 21, 2016, more than 100 Mongolian herders from Sandag Gachaa (a Gachaa consists...
Below is an article published by the Indian Defence News: New Delhi not only gave its go-ahead to the organisers to hold the conference in India, but also granted visas to Chinese dissidents,...
For the past quarter of a century, Mr Yang has seen as his mission to facilitate a peaceful transition of the PRC to the respect of human rights, genuine rule of law, and democratic governance for all....
Below is an article published by the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center: More than 300 Mongolian herders from Ar-Hundelen Som of eastern Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s...
Below is an article published by the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC) Following the recent arrest and detention of six Mongolian herders from western Southern...
Below is an article published by: SMHRIC Six Mongolian herders, including Ganbaatar, Otgonbaatar, Munkhbaatar, Erdenbaatar, Tuvshin, and Amarmend from Sain-Undur Gachaa, Bayanhuaa Township of...
Photo courtesy: SMHRIC Below is an article from: Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center On February 23, 2016, Mongolian herders from western Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s...
Below is an article by SMHRIC On January 25, 2016, a dozen Mongolian herders from western Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s Darhan-Muumingan Banner (“da mao qi” in Chinese) were taken...
Below is an article published by Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC): As the temperature drops to below 15 Celsius, Chinese authorities in western Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s...
Riding horses and camels, herder took to the streets in Southern Mongolia On December 17, 2015, riding horses and camels, nearly 100 Mongolian herders from western Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s Eznee...
Below is an article published by Southern Mongolia Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC): The following is an English translation of a statement for the Human Rights Day 2015 by Mr. Hada...
Below is an article published by Southern Mongolia Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC): The civil and political human rights abuses perpetrated by China on its citizens and on the people...
Below is an article published by Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC) As herders from Urad Middle Banner (“wu la te zhong qi” in Chinese) of Southern (Inner) Mongolia...
Below is an article published by Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC): Since October 23, 2015, at least 2,448 heads of livestock have been injected with an overdose of anthrax...
Below is an article published by Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC): Mr. Hada, a Southern (Inner) Mongolian political prisoner who completed 19 years of imprisonment...
Below is an article published by Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC): On October 15, 2015, Mr. Uiles, son of the Mongolian dissident Mr. Hada, who had been imprisoned...
Authorities in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) have clashed with hundreds of ethnic Mongolian herders and detained around 20 who petitioned the local government in recent days for...
Below is an article published by IBTimes As the deadline to select the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympics nears, a group of Chinese, Uyghur, Mongolian and Tibetan activists have penned a letter urging...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities in the troubled region of Inner Mongolia have detained at least 17 people following separate protests by ethnic Mongolian...
Chinese authorities in the troubled region of Inner Mongolia have detained at least 17 people following separate protests by ethnic Mongolian herding communities over the loss of their...
Below is an article published by Yibada: A grand spring memorial ceremony was celebrated on Saturday, May 9, at a shrine dedicated to renowned 13th-century conqueror Genghis Khan. Thousands...
A project operated by China's largest coal miner, Shenhua Group, has reduced groundwater levels in a region of Inner Mongolia and discharged high levels of toxic wastewater, environmental campaign group...
Below is an article published by Ecns.cn: The 10th National Traditional Games of Ethnic Minorities will be held in Ordos, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, from August 9 to 17. Held...
Below is an article published by the Digital Journal: There is a man-made lake in the western part of Inner Mongolia that is probably the most toxic, dangerous place in the world. Yet it is a...
Below is an article published by The Washington Post: Riot police have crushed a three-week-long protest against toxic waste from a chemical refinery complex in China’s Inner Mongolia region,...
Below are articles published by Want China Times and China Daily USA: With environmental awareness on the rise in China, tackling pollution has become a necessary task for many local factories....
Photo courtesy of United Nations Photo@flickr Below is an article published by India Gazette: Ethnic Mongolian dissident Hada issued an open letter on Tuesday [3 March 2015] to the United Nations Human...
Below is an article published by the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC): On February 6, 2015, 8 Mongolian citizens including the prominent Mongolian activist Mr....
Below is an article published by The New York Times: For a decade, Zhao Zhihong insisted that he had raped and killed a woman in 1996, and that the man who had been executed for the crimes was innocent. On...
You can read more about the herders’ protest in Beijing here and here. Below is an article published by Reuters The suicide adds to evidence that tensions are deepening in Inner Mongolia, where...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Authorities in Inner Mongolia have frozen the bank account of ethnic Mongolian dissident Hada and are refusing to issue him with an ID...
Below is a report published by the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC): On January 20, 2015, as more than 70 Mongolian herders from western Southern (Inner)...
Below is an article published by Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center: From 11 to 13 January 2015, more than 50 herders from western Southern (Inner) Mongolia’s Durbed...
Below are articles by Radio Free Asia and the Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center (SMHRIC): Photo courtesy of Xianyi Shen@flickr Dozens of herders from China's Inner Mongolia region...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: A Mongolian writer on Tuesday, 6 January 2015, called on the Chinese government to end her house arrest and remove restrictions on her...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: A Mongolian writer on Tuesday, 6 January 2015, called on the Chinese government to end her house arrest and remove restrictions on her...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Veteran ethnic Mongolian dissident Hada, who is being held under "residential surveillance" even after his release from extrajudicial...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities in Inner Mongolia are continuing to hold veteran dissident Hada under "residential surveillance," even after his release from...
Below is an article published by The Virginia Gazette; China has freed one of its longest-serving political prisoners, the ethnic Mongol dissident Hada, who has spent much of the last two decades behind...
A young ethnic Mongolian herder on horseback died after being run over by a Chinese mining truck in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region this month in the fifth such case in more than three years,...
Below is an article published by UCA News: Hundreds of ethnic Mongolian herding families in China's Inner Mongolia region are calling on the international community for help following their forced...
Below is an article published by RFA: Authorities have agreed to grant rare economic concessions to ethnic Mongolian herders after hundreds of protesters took to the streets in northern...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: The wife of jailed veteran ethnic Inner Mongolian dissident Hada says Chinese authorities have stepped up their “persecution”...
Below is an article published by Womenofchina: The Inner Mongolia Women's Handicraft Association was recently founded in Tongliao, in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Around the same time,...
On the occasion of the 52nd session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR), representatives of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and of the World Uyghur...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia are holding seven ethnic Mongolian herders after clashes with a mining company they...
Below is an article published by Coal Guru: The Shenhua Group is to stop extracting groundwater for their flagship coal to liquid project in Inner Mongolia’s Ordos an area struggling with severe...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities in the troubled northern region of Inner Mongolia are holding nearly 40 people following clashes between police and protesting herding...
Below is an article published by Sinosphere: The United Nations has barred a Chinese man from attending a Human Rights Council session in Geneva after he photographed at close range a woman...
Below is an article published by Women of China: Ten staff members, from the Women's Federation in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the People's Bank of China Hohhot Central Branch,...
Below is an article published by All-China Women’s Organisation: A press conference publicizing the founding of the Inner Mongolia Women's Rights Protection and Psychological Consultation Center,...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Authorities in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia have detained five ethnic Mongolian herders who protested the takeover of their grazing lands...
Below is an article published by Voice of America: Six herders in China who tried to defend grazing land from expropriation by a forestry firm have been sentenced in the resource-rich Inner Mongolia...
Below is an article published by People’s Daily Online: North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region announced on Wednesday [18 December 2013] completion of a milestone project to provide electricity...
Below is an article published by the GlobalPost: Over the last three years [2011-2013], San Qinghai has had to dig four new wells, each one deeper than the last. The village's old stone wells used to...
Below is an article published by Aljazeera: China's announcement that it would abolish its infamous practice of "re-education through labour" last month raised hopes for a major step forward for human...
Below is an article published by the Phayul: A video (graphic content - viewer discretion advised) showing senior PAP firefighters of China beating five young recruits in the city of Wuhai in Inner...
Below is an article by Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities have expelled a group of Inner Mongolian herders from Beijing after they persistently petitioned officials over the loss of their grazing land...
Below is an article published by Human Rights Watch: The Chinese government should follow news that it will abolish the abusive Re-education Through Labor system by announcing...
Below is a blog post from Greenpeace: We’ve had a fantastic, hot summer this year, cooling down with a drink of water whenever needed. So when I look at Bo Qiu’s photo feature of water shortages...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Amid growing tensions in China's Inner Mongolia over what herders say is the government-backed exploitation of their traditional grazing lands, police...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Authorities in Inner Mongolia have detained 52 people in connection with online posts in recent weeks, amid growing ethnic tension in the region and...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Yunshaabiin Seevendoo, who was detained for a month before being formally arrested on July 4 [2013] for the “crime of fraud,” is being held...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities have “punished” more than a dozen ethnically Mongolian netizens for “spreading rumors” about the resettlement...
Below is an article published by China Daily: Renewed interest in traditional Mongolian dress has promoted designers to find ways to adapt it to modern wearers, Wang Kaihao and...
Below is an article published by The Guardian: A project operated by China's largest coal miner, Shenhua Group, has reduced groundwater levels in an Inner Mongolia region and discharged high levels...
Below is an article published by All China women’s federation: Twenty-eight women from a wide range of backgrounds will represent north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at the Chinese...
Below is an article published by Asian Correspondent: President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj has been described as the “Ambassador for Mongolia” by local journalists for his ability...
Below is an article published by Vanguard: Carbon Energy has identified three areas within the Haoqin Coalfield in Inner Mongolia that are potentially suitable for its keyseam underground coal gasification...
Below is an article published by ForImmediateRelease.com: The Seychelles Ministry of Tourism and Culture and Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of the People’s Republic of China, signed a Memorandum...
Below is a story from Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities in Inner Mongolia are investigating fresh clashes between ethnic minority Mongolian herders and Han Chinese settlers over land,...
Below is an article published by BioBasedDigest In Canada, Maple Leaf Green World has signed a 5-year waste land reclamation contract with Ordos Lin Ze Bio-Tech Company of Inner Mongolia, China....
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: More than 100 Chinese farmers assaulted minority Mongolian herders when they tried to reclaim their leased land in northern China’s Inner Mongolia...
Below is an article published by Cri English: Jia Lasen, vice head of the Buddhist Association of China and a top Buddhist leader in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, died at the age of...
Below is an article published by peopledaily: A project aimed at bringing the young people of China and Mongolia together was launched in Ulan Bator on Friday. Named "Colongo", meaning "rainbow" in Mongolian,...
Below is an article from Intercontinental Cry: Authorities in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region earlier this month blocked an attempted cross-country march by traditional...
Below is an article published by All-China Women’s Federation: In conjunction with International Women's Day on March 8, 2013, the Women's Federation of the Alxa League in northern China's Inner...
Below is an article published by Phayul: A senior Tibetan leader today called for a common ground where people from East Turkestan, Tibet, and Southern Mongolia could cooperate and learn from each other’s...
The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) – in collaboration with the UNPO, Society for Threatened People and the National Endowment for Democracy – held a major international conference from 11 –...
Below is an article published by Globalpost: One of China’s longest-imprisoned dissidents is mentally and physically breaking down. That’s the report from family members of Hada, 57, an ethnic...
Below is an article published by China.org: Political advisers called for the protection of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region's grassland, the nation's largest green belt, which is threatened by desertification. Relying...
Below is an article published by Human Rights In China: In a phone conversation with Human Rights in China (HRIC), Uiles the son of Mongolian dissident Hada, who has been under more than two years...
Please find below UNPO's press release on the hearing: Landmark Hearing Urges the European Union to Act Upon Religious Persecution By China European Parliament Hearing brings evidence...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Authorities in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region are considering adopting new rules to boost the use of the Mongolian language, following...
Below is a Press Release from the World Uyghur Congress: The World Uyghur Congress is pleased to announce that it will be holding a conference in collaboration with the Society for Threatened...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: The following is an open letter circulated on the Internet by a young ethnic Mongolian woman named Gowaa, which addresses her personal...
Below is an article published in Deutsche Welle: Hada, a high-profile dissident from Inner Mongolia, has been detained by authorities for nearly two years after having spent 15 years in prison. His wife...
Below is an article published by Focus Taiwan: Beijing will maintain a consistent policy toward Taiwan and continue to promote and deepen cross-Taiwan Strait economic cooperation despite its recent power...
Below is an article published by Radio Australia: Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is preparing to open one of the world's biggest copper mines in southern Mongolia, and before it has even started...
Below is an article published on Radio Free Asia: Inner Mongolian political prisoner Hada's relatives are incommunicado after speaking out about rights violations. The activist wife and son of a long-imprisoned...
The article below was published by China Daily: More than 65 employees from the South Korean flagship carrier Korean Air headed for the Kubuqi desert in China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region...
With all eyes on the build-up to last night’s United States presidential elections, China’s once-in-a-decade leadership transition has found itself comparatively sidelined in the international...
Below is an article published by Human Rights In China: In December 2010, when he was released after completing a 15-year prison sentence on conviction of espionage (间谍罪)...
Below is an article published by Ventura County Star: The wife of a long-imprisoned ethnic Mongolian activist in China said Monday that she has spent nearly two years in detention and house arrest...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Ethnic Mongolians say Chinese officials illegally leased their grazing land to a number of large corporations. Mongolian herders from China's...
On 11th of September 2012 the third Meeting of the Human Rights Council’s 21st Regular Session was held in the Palais des Nations, Geneva. UNPO President Ngawang Choephel attended the session and...
Below is an article published by the Hindustan Times: On Sunday, German journalists based in China wrote to Merkel, asking her to raise the issue of deteriorating conditions for reporters here...
Below is an article published by Greener Ideal: A new report suggests that China’s plan to quickly expand large coal mines and power plants threatens to drain precious water supply and could trigger...
18 July, The Hague – Upon learning that UN Secretary-General will be on a visit to the People's Republic of China this week, the UNPO Presidency is urging Mr. Ban Ki-moon to raise concern on the...
Below is an article published by China Digital Times: As the 2012 leadership transition looms, The Economist profiles a man tipped to come out ahead in 2022: Hu Chunhua, whose current position...
Below is an article published by World War 4 Report: Newly announced plans by China's central government for the "resettlement" of the last remaining nomads over the next five years have sparked protests...
On Thursday 5 July the East Turkestan Uyghur Association in the Netherlands organized a demonstration in The Hague to commemorate the July 2009 Urumqi massacre, in which hundreds of Uyghurs were killed...
Below is an article published by Inter Press Service News Agency: As scientists increasingly label desertification as one of the most burning challenges facing the world today, a small village in China’s...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: A U.S.-based rights group has hit out at plans by the Chinese government to force three ethnic minority groups to abandon the last traces of their nomadic...
Below is an article published by Mine Web: China is looking to allocate a value-added tax (VAT) permit to rare earth companies in a bid to regulate overproduction of the mineral and to collect revenue....
Below is an article published by Xinhua: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-05/31/c_131623795.htm People in Vienna were treated to a unique cultural showcase by the renowned Wulanmuqi ensemble...
Below is an article from Macau Daily Times: The “intangible heritage of Inner Mongolia” will be at the center of attention at the celebration of the 7th annual China Cultural Heritage...
Below is an article published by Catholic Culture: Chinese authorities have stepped up their persecution of the Church in Inner Mongolia, the Chinese region that borders the independent nation of Mongolia. Local...
Below is an article published by the Asia Times: China is notorious for containing some of the world's deadliest mines - a reputation that has been corroborated in recent months by a series of fatal accidents....
Below is an article published by CNN: The Mongols once dominated China, just part of their vast empire stretching from Moscow to Guangzhou. Eventually, the Chinese chased out their conquerors and claimed...
Below is an article published by China Media: Ethnic Mongolians protested the arrest of 22 people following clashes with police over land rights in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region, reports...
Below is an article published by Reuters: Chinese police detained 22 ethnic Mongolians after hundreds of them protested against the seizure of land in Inner Mongolia, an overseas rights group said on...
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a process established by the United Nations Human Rights Council wherein states, UN agencies, and civil society can come together and comment on a wide range of human...
Below is an article published by Southern Mongolia Human Rights Information Center: Southern (Inner) Mongolian prominent political prisoner Mr. Hada is suffering from poor health and maltreatment in a...
Below is an article published by Prensa Latina: Over three million people face a drinking water shortage, mainly in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan and the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia,...
Below is an article published by UCA News: Five “underground” priests from Suiyuan diocese in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region were “taken away” by police yesterday [30...
Below is an article published by South China Morning Post: The Hubei provincial party committee, led by a controversial official who once seized a reporter's recorder during an interview, has ordered...
Below is an article published by the Los Angeles Times: Maliya Suo is more than 90 years old, but she can still skin a squirrel. In her prime, she could shoot a pheasant in flight. She was once the greatest...
Barbara Lochbihler MEP, chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights opened the session by reporting that since the last meetings in December 2010 and July 2011 the human rights situation has deteriorated...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: In China’s northern region of Inner Mongolia, Chinese authorities continue to hold ethnic Mongolian dissident Hada beyond his scheduled release...
Below is an article published by The Wall Street Journal: Before the end of this month, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress will review the second draft of a proposal for comprehensive...
On November 16 2011, the Foreign Affairs Committee of Dutch Parliament held a general meeting concerning China and Dutch-Chinese relations. As part of its Dutch lobbying...
Below is an article published by the People’s Daily Online: A former senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region went on trial...
Below is an article by Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center: As the Chinese authorities intensify their surveillance over the Internet in Southern (Inner) Mongolia following the death of...
Below is an article published by Reuters A herder in northern China's Inner Mongolia who had been protesting destruction of traditional grazing land has died after being hit by an oil transport truck,...
Below is an article by Radio Free Asia: An ethnic Mongolian dissident writer has been subjected to repeated harassment and beatings by authorities while in detention in northern China, according to new...
Below is an article published by The New York Times: Last Jan. 27 [2010], an Inner Mongolian rights activist, Govruud Huuchinhuu, suddenly vanished after leaving a hospital where she had undergone treatment...
Below is an article by Channel News Asia: Like many nomads in Inner Mongolia, Bu He and his family no longer live in mobile yurts. They have resettled into brick and mortar homes. Bu He, a herder, said:...
Below is an article published by Asia News: Arrests, forced detentions, threats and extortion: these are the ‘weapons’ with which the Chinese government is carrying out religious persecution...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Nearly 400 ethnic Mongolian former students in China’s northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have protested in front of a government building...
Below is an article published by the Tibetan Review: TibetanReview.net, Jul26, 2011) Around 300 riot police and local officials were dispatched on Jul 18 to crackdown on more than 1,000 herders...
The article below was published by Reuters. Inner Mongolia was rocked by protests in May over the death of an ethnic Mongolian herder who was hit by a truck after taking part in protests against pollution...
Below is the invitation by the Chinese-Tibetan Friendship Society Europe for the events in English,Tibetan and Chinese. Demonstration on the 5th of July in front of the Chinese embassy in Brussels to...
Below is an article published by STL Today: Ethnic Mongolian herders protested a lead mine operating on grazing land in the latest tension in a Chinese border region that recently saw its biggest...
Below is an article published by the Southern Mongolia Human Rights Information Centre: “Mongolians have been arrested, detained and beaten during and after the large-scale region-wide protest...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have formally arrested at least three ethnic minority Mongolian university lecturers following...
Below is an article published by Reporters Without Borders: “Chinese authorities are now using more insidious and less visible methods than just blocking a site. They are leaving certain personal...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Chinese authorities in the northern region of Inner Mongolia have described the situation there as "war-like" following a huge influx of troops into the...
Below is an article published by The Eurasia Review: China’s Inner Mongolia, where Mongolians are in a minority of only 20 per cent of the total population of 23 million has been going through a...
Below is an article published by Reports Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders condemns the Chinese government’s decision to rein in Internet service in the northern region of Inner Mongolia,...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: Authorities in China have clamped down on protests in Inner Mongolia by nomadic herders against development of the region's grasslands, arresting dozens...
Below is an article published by Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center:On the morning of May 25, 2011, nearly two thousands students from Mongolians schools including Shiliin-hot Mongolian...
Below is an article published by Southern Mongolian Human Rights Information Center:On the morning of May 23, 2011, hundreds of Mongolian herders from Right Ujumchin Banner of Southern (Inner)...
Below is an article published by Radio Free Asia: An ethnic Mongolian writer who had publicly backed a well-known political dissident is reported missing following her release from a hospital in northern...
Below is an article published by the Canadian Press: An activist who campaigned for Inner Mongolia's independence from China has made his first contact with family more than a month after he was released...
Below is an article published by SolveClimate News: Dalai Lake is shrinking. For years, the water level of northern China’s largest freshwater lake – lying on the Hulunbuir grasslands of Inner...
Below is an article published by Phayul: Amnesty International urged Beijing on Monday [10 January 2011] to account for an independence activist in Chinese-controlled Inner Mongolia who was released from...
Below is an article published by the World Bulletin China has released from jail one of its longest-serving dissidents, the ethnic Mongolian rights activist Hada, but his whereabouts are not known and...
Below is an article published by Radio Free China: Authorities in northern China have refused to honor the scheduled release date of a prominent ethnic Mongolian political prisoner [Hada] and have offered...
Below is an article published by News Center: China has found a major uranium deposit in Inner Mongolia holding an estimated 30,000 tonnes of the metal, state television reported on Saturday [4 December...
Below is an article published by China Daily About 1,000 herdsmen who had been besieged by a snowstorm on a steppe in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region for a week have been found...
Below is an article published by China Dialogue: On November 12, two herders from Khaskatun in Inner Mongolia wrote to the local authority petitioning it to protect the Mongolian Baicha...
Below is an article published by The Star: As a child growing up in Inner Mongolia, Han Yu was surrounded by breathtaking nature. “The scenery was beautiful. There were lots of trees....
Below is an article published by Universiteit Leiden:Dean Prof. Willem J.H. Willems will be travelling to Mongolia this summer, as participant of the Mongolian International Heritage Team (MIHT)....
Below is an article published by Reuters: China's Inner Mongolia region plans to speed up resettlement of nomadsfrom their traditional grasslands to fixed homes in towns, as part of aconservation...
Below is an article published by Reuters :An ethnic Mongolian activist has vanished after Chinese authorities prevented him from attending a United Nations forum on indigenous peoples in New...
Below is an article issued by China View:A senior central government official Tuesday [18 August 2009] urged the promotion of education in border regions inhabited by ethnic minorities. State Councilor...
Below is an article published by Relief Web:On August 14 [2009], China Meteorological Administration (CMA) sent experts from National Climate Center, National Climate Center and Institute of Strategic...
Below is an article published by Reuters: CHINA'S second-largest state oil giant Sinopec Corp has discovered an oilfield with some 140 million tonnes reserve in north China's Inner Mongolia...
China's ethnic Mongolians have been forgotten by the world, their fight for cultural survival overshadowed by unrest in Tibet, the wife of the region's best-known prisoner of conscience told...
Below is an article published by Agence France Presse: Farmers in China's large milk-producing region of Inner Mongolia said governmental safety measures taken in the wake of a tainted milk scandal...
Below is an article published by the The Guardian : HOHHOT, China, July 8 (Reuters) - In China's pre-Olympics crackdown on dissent two communities have received considerable global attention...
Below is an article published by: Reuters HOHHOT, China (Reuters) - The wife of an ethnic Mongolian Chinese dissident who has been in jail for over a decade called on Sunday [6 July 2008] for...
Mr. Jaranbayariin Soyolt, a Southern (Inner) Mongolian dissident in exile and a citizen of Mongolia, was released and deported back to Mongolia by train on June 17, 2008. Currently he is staying in his...
The Hague, 16 June 2008 – On 6 January 2008, Jaranbayar Soyolt, a citizen of Mongolia, was detained by immigration officials at Beijing Capital International Airport. Jaranbayar Soyolt is a nonviolent...
Jiranbayariin Soyolt, a Southern (Inner) Mongolian dissident in exile and a citizen of Mongolia, was arrested in Beijing Capital Airport on January 6, 2008, while on a business trip to China along with...
Below is an article published by Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders condemns a decision by the Chinese authorities to place a journalist known by the name of Naranbilig under house arrest...
Below is an article published by China View: About 3,800 people have been deployed to fight forest fires raging in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, local authorities said on Thursday...
Below is an article published by AsiaNews.it: Northeastern China is facing its worst drought in 57 years. The areas of Hebei, from which Beijing intends to take water for the Olympics, have...
Below is an article written by Geoffrey York and published in the Globe & Mail: For as long as anyone can remember, Bator and his ancestors were horse-riding herdsmen, free to roam the vast grasslands...
Below is an article published by Forbes: The National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planner, said it has approved on-grid tariffs for 72 wind farms across the country as part...
A multimedia report shows how China is facing a potential desertification crisis but that it is the Inner Mongolians who are feeling its affects most acutely. Below is an article published by Circle...
The Chinese authorities have many ways of silencing opposition to their regime, but there will always be those who speak out for justice and freedom. Below is an article by the BBC: Although China's...
Reports suggest that ‘Hada’, a political activist and newspaper editor, has been maltreated in prison where he is currently serving a 15 year sentence for promoting Mongolian rights. Below...
Inner Mongolia is one of the most powerful electricity generators in China as it has the second largest available coal reserves in the region. Below are extracts of an article written by Xie Chuanjiao...
While half a century ago an estimated 90 percent of locals were considered illiterate, today the country's nine-year compulsory education scheme is trying to close the illiteracy gap. Below is an article...
Below is an article published by Reuters: The 60 years since China set up the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have been marked by environmental destruction, persecution and cultural assimilation and...
Below is an article written by Reuters and published by the Guardian: China has not mistreated an ethnic Mongolian Chinese political prisoner despite accusations by his wife and a rights group, an official...
Below are extracts from an article written by Reuters and published by the Daily Times: China’s dusty, vast and windswept Inner Mongolia has been battling the creeping desert for decades. Now a...
Four leaders of a Christian Church have reportedly been in Wuhai city by military police. Their whereabouts and current health condition are unknown. Below is an article published by the Christian News...
Human Rights Watch has called for a halt to the forced eviction of ethnic Tibetan herders, the resettlement of which often entails violence and the destruction of the Tibetan way of life. Below is an...
Below are extracts from an article written by Charles Whelan and published by Seed Magazine: TAIPUSI, China (AFP)—Officials in Inner Mongolia say they have established a living barrier of trees,...
The Japan Airlines group has decided to increase its support the Inner Mongolia greening project against desertification. Below is an article published by China Corporate and Social Responsibility: Japan...
In a joint statement to the Sixth Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), held from 14 to 25 May 2007 at the UN headquarters in New York, UNPO, its Members, and its partners,...
Below is an article written by Benoit Faucon published by Market Watch: BEJING, May 10 (Yonhap) -- Some 1,000 South Korean and Chinese youths will plant trees in an Southern Mongolian desert on Saturday...
The latest meeting of the UNPO Presidency, which met from 01 – 03 February at the European Parliament in Brussels, has continued pursuit of UNPO’s goal of giving a voice to all unrepresented...
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.