Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization

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Number of UNPO members, which are on territory of official countries
Headquarters	The Hague, Netherlands
Members of UNPO	63 (Last update: February 2006)
Secretaries General	Michael van Walt van Praag (1991-1998)| Tsering Jampa (1997-1998)| Helen S. Corbett (1998-1999)| Erkin Alptekin (1999-2003)| Marino Busdachin (2003)
February 11 1991
Number of total represented people	ca. 200 million
Homepage	[www.unpo.org]

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.

Note: In spite of the "UN" in its acronym, UNPO is not related to the United Nations.

Members

in the Americas Buffalo River Dene Nation Lakota (Dakota or Sioux Indians) Mapuche Nahuals del Alto Balsas Nuxálk in Africa Cabinda Batwa (Pygmies) Maasai Ogoni Oromo Somaliland Southern Cameroons (former Ambazonia) Vhavenda Zanzibar (constituent part of federal Tanzania)

in Asia Aceh (on Sumatra); see also Free Aceh Movement Ahwazi Assyrians; see also Assyrian independence Buryatia; see also Buryat Chin Chittagong Hill Tracts Cordillera East Turkestan Mon Montagnards Nagalim Iraqi Turkmen Karenni State (Kayah State) Khmer Krom Kurdistan Shan Sindh South Moluccas Taiwan (represented by the DPP) Tibet; see also Government of Tibet in Exile and Tibetan people Tuva West Balochistan

in Europe Abkhazia Albanians in the Republic of Macedonia Bashkortostan Circassia; see also Circassians Chuvashia Crimean Tatars Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Gagauzia Greeks in Albania Hungarians in Romania Ingushetia Ingria Komi Kosova Kumyk Mari; see also Mari El Rusyns Sanjak Scania (Skåneland) Talysh Udmurtia

in Oceania & Australasia Aboriginals of Australia Bougainville Ka Lahui Hawai'i Maohi West Papua (represented by the OPM)

Former members

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

-four former constitutive republics of the Soviet Union:

1. two of the three Baltic republics (the third being Lithuania), which considered themselves never legally having acceeded as Stalin annexed them by force:
2. # Estonia
3. # Latvia
4. two in Transcaucasia:
5. # Armenia
6. # Georgia

-other:

1. East Timor, former Portuguese colony, annexed by Indonesia
2. Palau (or Belau), formerly part of the US-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

See also

• Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples
• Flag of UNPO
• Micronations

External links

• [UNPO Website]
• [UNPO Covenant]
• [UNPO Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples]
• [UNPO Tartu Coordination Office] (Eastern Europe and Northern Asia)
• [Fourth World: Nations Without a State], Nadesan Satyendra
• [List of relevant links]

 

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