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15/06/2026

Archives are more than records of the past.

For unrepresented nations and peoples, they preserve collective memory, support advocacy, document human rights abuses, and help safeguard identity across generations.

Read more here: https://unpo.org/unpo-secretary-general-speaks-at-international-archives-week-webinar-on-self-determination-and-non-sovereign-peoples-archives/

08/06/2026

Bien que l’esclavage ait été officiellement aboli, il continue d’affecter des milliers de personnes en Mauritanie, tandis que les militants antiesclavagistes, les opposants politiques et les défenseurs des droits humains font face à une répression croissante.

Dans ce nouvel épisode de Hidden Geopolitics: Flash Edition, la Secrétaire générale de l’UNPO, Mercè, s’entretient avec Biram Dah Abeid sur l’esclavage, les discriminations, les libertés politiques et les enjeux de redevabilité en Mauritanie.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Lqzxmkgxe8N3cZJkAoBvJ?si=b6lVvF5GQmmwPKpIJ8QMEQ

08/06/2026

What happens when cultural rights frameworks are built around states, but many communities remain unrecognised by them?

Drawing on evidence from unrepresented and stateless peoples, a new submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights argues that cultural rights cannot be assessed without considering questions of recognition, participation, and self-determination.

https://unpo.org/unpo-submits-evidence-to-un-special-rapporteur-on-cultural-rights-urging-an-assessment-framework-inclusive-of-unrepresented-nations-and-peoples/

29/05/2026

From the mass detention of Uyghurs and the religious sinicisation of Tibetans, to the persecution of Baloch, Kurdish, Ahwazi Arab, Hmong, Khmer-Krom, Crimean Tatar, and Sindhi communities, patterns of repression reveal how religious freedom is often restricted in the name of national security, counter-extremism, or political unity.

Across these communities, states have criminalised peaceful religious expression, targeted clergy and community leaders, restricted places of worship, and used administrative and security frameworks to suppress minority religious identities.

Read more here: https://unpo.org/unpo-submits-input-to-ohchr-on-combating-intolerance-against-persons-based-on-religion-or-belief/

27/05/2026

Unrepresented, minority and Indigenous youth carry a disproportionate share of the struggles facing their communities. Edition No. 5 of Peoples Represented, published with First Draft Media, is dedicated to amplifying their voices and the role they play within the longer arc of their peoples' fights for recognition, and the continuation of their communities' knowledge and heritage carried forward across generations.

Out Friday, 29 May. Subscribe at peoplesrepresented.com to be the first to read.

21/05/2026

Assyrian communities in Iraq and Syria continue to face violence, displacement, and political marginalisation, threatening their survival in their ancestral homeland.

The UNPO calls for the protection of rights, land, cultural heritage, and meaningful political inclusion before the erosion of their presence becomes irreversible.

Read more here: https://unpo.org/the-unpo-calls-for-protection-of-assyrian-communities-amid-deepening-crisis-in-iraq-and-syria/

18/05/2026

Land remembers. So do we.
The new edition of Peoples Represented is live, and this month we turn to Indigenous Peoples from the Mekong Delta to Guam, from the hills of Manipur to the highlands of West Papua.

Indigenous Peoples are landholders, lawmakers, organisers, knowledge keepers, and political actors shaping the present moment — often against states determined to write them out of it.

Inside this edition:

Satej Chakma on the Jumma of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Pamreihor Khashimwo on the Tangkhul Naga women holding a community together, the Khmers Kampuchea-Krom Federation on the Khmer-Krom fight for recognition that grows back every time it is cut down, Dr. Laura M. Torres Souder on the CHamoru asking who decides Guam's future, and Caroline Carrothers Aranguren, on behalf of the West Papua Human Rights Centre, on the West Papuan reality where "development" means erasure.

Read the full edition at peoplesrepresented.com and subscribe to support more stories.

12/05/2026

UNPO has submitted input to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development, calling for self-determination to be recognised as central to durable peace and genuine development.

Drawing on the experiences of Members including West Papua, Balochistan, Ogoniland, the Hmong, Acheh, the Chittagong Hill Tracts, and Somaliland, the submission highlights how exclusion from decision-making and governance continues to undermine peace, justice, and development.

The submission calls for more inclusive and rights-based peace and development frameworks grounded in self-determination.

Read more here: https://unpo.org/unpo-submits-response-to-un-expert-mechanism-on-the-right-to-development-calling-for-the-right-to-self-determination-to-be-recognised-as-a-condition-for-peace-security-and-the-right-to-development/

08/05/2026

A former Chinese police officer has come forward with testimony detailing ongoing repression against Uyghurs in East Turkistan, including torture, forced labour, and deaths in custody.

His account highlights how systems of detention and control have not disappeared, but evolved under new forms. At the same time, Uyghur communities abroad continue to face intimidation, surveillance, and transnational repression.

Read more in our latest press release: https://unpo.org/unpo-raises-alarm-as-new-testimony-exposes-ongoing-repression-of-uyghurs/

06/05/2026

For communities whose realities rarely reach a front page, press freedom is the difference between being heard and being erased.

Peoples Represented is the magazine UNPO publishes with First Draft Media, written by journalists and storytellers from inside unrepresented communities, with no filters or narrative shaping: just the people whose stories often go overlooked.

Here's how you can support Peoples Represented:

📨 Subscribe: join our readers for free, or become a paid subscriber to support our mission further at https://www.peoplesrepresented.com/

📣 Spread the word: share the magazine's articles with your network and community. It helps us reach a bigger audience and sustain our work.

✍️ Pitch us a story: if you are a journalist or storyteller from an unrepresented community, contact us at [email protected] and pitch us your story for our upcoming editions.

To every journalist, storyteller, and contributor who has trusted us with their words so far: thank you. The magazine exists because you've helped us build it, edition by edition.

Press freedom means nothing if entire peoples are left out. Help us make sure they're not.

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