Wednesday, 28 March 2007

Unrepresented Nation and People





The Unrepresented Nation and People Organization (UNPO) was created by nations and peoples who are not represented in organizations like the UN. Founded in 1991, UNPO as about 50 member organizations representing over 100 million people denied their nationality. They are struggling to regain their lost countries, to preserve their cultural identities, to protect their basic human and economic rights and to safeguard the natural environment. The following 69 groups currently belong to UNPO:
  1. Abkhasia
  2. Aborigines of Australia
  3. Acheh
  4. Albanians in Macedonia
  5. Assyria
  6. Bashkortostan
  7. Batwa
  8. Bougainville
  9. Buryatia
  10. Chameria
  11. Chechen Republic Ichkeria
  12. Chittagong Hill Tracts
  13. Chuvash
  14. Circassians
  15. Cordillera
  16. Crimean Tatars
  17. East Timor
  18. East Turkestan
  19. Gagauzia
  20. Greek Minority in Albania
  21. Hungarian Minority in Romania
  22. Ingushetia
  23. Inkeria
  24. Iraqi Turkomen
  25. Kalaui, Hawaii
  26. Karenni State
  27. Komi
  28. Kosovo
  29. Kurdistan (Iraq)
  30. Lakota Nation
  31. Maohi People
  32. Mapuche
  33. Mari
  34. Mon People
  35. Nagaland
  36. Ogoni
  37. Republic of South Moluccas
  38. Sakha Republic (Yukatia)
  39. Sanjak
  40. Scania
  41. Taiwan
  42. Tartarstan
  43. Tibet
  44. Udmurt
  45. West Papau
  46. Zanzibar