UNPO Calls for Rights-Compliant Definitions of Terrorism to Protect Unrepresented Communities

The Unrepresented Peoples and Nations Organization (UNPO), the Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC) and Geneva for Human Rights (GDH) , have submitted an alternative report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) concerning the situation of the Catalan People in Spain. The submission, filed ahead of the Committee’s review of Spain during its 118th Ses...

UNPO has collaborated with the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy through its Justice Capstone Seminar on a student-led research project examining how self-determination movements use narratives, media, and information to advance their causes in an era of widespread information disorder. The resulting report, Determining the Narrative: The...

On 25 March 2026, UNPO joined a side event at the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council on the rights of minorities in Asia, alongside the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues and the World Sindhi Congress. Two days later, on 27 March, UNPO’s Secretary-General also participated in a conference focused on Balochistan, bringing the same core message into a space sh...

The UNPO has submitted a report to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warning of the escalating use of digital technologies as instruments of repression against human rights defenders (HRDs) from unrepresented communities. This submission responds to the OHCHR’s call for inputs following Human Rights Council resolution 58/23 on “Hum...