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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.
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Members

Former members since gained recognition

Secretaries-General

See also

External links

Members

'in the Americas' ★ Buffalo River Dene Nation ★ Lakota (Dakota or Sioux Indians) ★ Mapuche ★ Nahuas del Alto Balsas ★ Nuxálk ★ Tsimshian'in Africa' ★ Cabinda ★ Batwa (Pygmies) ★ Maasai ★ Ogoni ''see also Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People'' ★ Oromo ★ Rehoboroth Basters ★ 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; ''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 Azerbaijan ★ Iranian Kurdistan ★ Iraqi Kurdistan ★ Iraqi Turkmen ★ Karenni State (Kayah State) (in Myanmar) ★ Khalistan ★ Khmer Krom ★ Montagnards ★ Mon ★ Nagalim ★ Shan (in Myanmar) ★ Sindh ★ South Moluccas ★ Taiwan (used to be represented by the DPP, withdrew in 2006, according to DPP Department of International Affairs - currently represented by the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy) ★ Tibet; ''see also Government of Tibet in Exile and Tibetan people'' ★ Tuva (Turkic people in Asian Russia) ★ West Balochistan (in Iran)

'in 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) ★ Talysh ★ Tatarstan ★ Udmurtia

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

Former members since gained recognition

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:
## Estonia
## Latvia
# two in Transcaucasia:
## Armenia
## Georgia

★ other:
# East Timor, former Portuguese colony, annexed by Indonesia
# Palau (or Belau), formerly part of the US-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

Secretaries-General

Michael van Walt van Praag	1991-1997
Tsering Jampa	1997-1998
Helen S. Corbett	1998-1999
Erkin Alptekin	1999-2003
Marino Busdachin	2003 to date

See also

★ Micronations

★ United Nations list of non-self-governing territories

★ Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples

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