Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization

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Image:Worldmap UNPO.png Number of UNPO members, which are on territory of official countries
Headquarters	The Hague, Netherlands
Members of UNPO	63 (Last update: September 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)
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.

1 Members
2 Former members
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Members

in the Americas

in Africa

Cabinda
Batwa (Pygmies)
Maasai
Ogoni see also Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
Oromo
Somaliland
Southern Cameroons (former Ambazonia)
Vhavenda (in South Africa)
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 (in Myanmar)
Chittagong Hill Tracts
Cordillera
East Turkestan
Mon
Montagnards
Nagalim
Iraqi Turkmen
Karenni State (Kayah State) (in Myanmar)
Khmer Krom
Kurdistan
Shan (in Myanmar)
Sindh
South Moluccas
Taiwan (used to be represented by the DPP,which quitted in 2006)Template:According to DPP department of the international affairs
Tibet; see also Government of Tibet in Exile and Tibetan people
Tuva (Mongolian people in Asian Russia)
West Balochistan (in Iran)

in Europe

in Oceania & Australasia

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