Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization

Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) Flag

Click on map to enlarge and see color legend Headquarters The Hague, Netherlands Membership 701 population groups Leaders - Secretary General Marino Busdachin
(since 2003) Establishment February 11, 1991 Population - estimate c.200 million Website
http://www.unpo.org/ 1 Last updated in May 2008.

The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) is a democratic, international organization. Its members are indigenous peoples, occupied nations, minorities and independent states or territories which lack representation internationally.

UNPO aims to protect the members' human and cultural rights, preserve their environments, and to find non-violent solutions to conflicts which affect them. UNPO provides a forum for member aspirations and assists its members to participate at an international level.

UNPO members are generally not represented diplomatically (or only with a minor status, such as observer) in major international institutions, such as the United Nations. As a result, their ability to participate in the international community, and to have their concerns addressed by the global bodies mandated to protect human rights and address conflict, is limited.

UNPO is dedicated to the five principles enshrined in its Covenant:

The equal right to self-determination;
Adherence to the internationally accepted human rights standards as laid down in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international instruments;
Adherence to the principles of democratic pluralism and rejection of totalitarianism and religious intolerance;
Promotion of non-violence and the rejection of terrorism as an instrument of policy; and
Protection of the natural environment.

All members are required to sign and abide by the UNPO Covenant. They must affirm that they support the principle of nonviolence in their people’s struggle for a peaceful solution and that they apply the democratic methodology as their guiding principle. Please note that UNPO is not part of the United Nations in spite of the "UN" in its acronym.

1 Members
2 Former members
3 Secretaries-General
4 See also
5 External links

Members

Americas

Africa

Afrikaner, (in South Africa)
Batwa (Pygmies)
Cabinda
Maasai
Ogoni see also Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
Oromo
Rehoboth Basters
Somaliland
Southern Cameroons (former Ambazonia)
Vhavenda (in South Africa)
Zanzibar (constituent part of federal Tanzania)

Oceania & Australasia

Asia

Aceh (on Sumatra); see also Free Aceh Movement
Ahwazi; see also Politics of Khuzestan
Assyrians; see also Assyrian independence
Buryatia; see also Buryat
Chin (in Myanmar)
Chittagong Hill Tracts
Cordillera
East Turkestan
Hmong ChaoFa
Inner Mongolia
Iranian Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi Turkmen
Karenni State (Kayah State) (in Myanmar)
Khmer Krom
Montagnards
Mon
Nagalim
Shan (in Myanmar)
South Moluccas
Southern Azerbaijan
Taiwan
Talysh
Tibet; see also Government of Tibet in Exile and Tibetan people
Tuva (Turkic people in Asian Russia)
West Balochistan (in Iran)

Europe

Abkhazia
Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia
Bashkortostan
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Circassia; see also Circassians
Chuvashia
Crimean Tatars
Gagauzia
Greeks in Albania
Hungarians in Romania
Ingushetia
Ingria
Komi
Kosovo
Kumyk
Mari; see also Mari El
Rusyns
Sandžak
Scania (Skåneland) (represented by Stiftelsen Skånsk Framtid[1])
Tatarstan
Udmurtia

Former members

The following former members of the UNPO have since gained United Nations (UN) recognition:

Four former constitutive republics of the Soviet Union:
- Two Baltic republics:
  - Estonia - independence restored in 1991
  - Latvia - independence restored in 1991
- Two Transcaucasian republics:
  - Armenia - independence restored in 1991
  - Georgia - independence restored in 1991
Others:
- East Timor - former Portuguese colony, annexed by Indonesia and independent since 2002
- Palau (or Belau) - formerly part of the US-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and independent since 1994