The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), formed on the 11th of February, 1991 in The Hague, the Netherlands, is an international organization of political organisations and governments representing self-proclaimed "indigenous peoples, minorities, and unrecognised or occupied territories". The organization trains groups in how to best market their causes. Some former members, like Armenia, East Timor, Estonia, Latvia and Georgia, have gained full independence and joined the United Nations. Despite the "UN" in its acronym, UNPO is an NGO and not an agency of the United Nations.

UNPO was conceived of in the 1980s by three leaders of separatist movements in China. Michael van Walt van Praag, long a lawyer for the 14th Dalai Lama, wanted to provide legal expertise for the leaders of aspirant states. Tibetan activist Tsering Jampa, and Uyghur separatist Erkin Alptekin were dismayed that Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians were getting more attention than they were getting, so they decided to create a united organization with van Praag, that would publicize the various independence and autonomy causes during increasingly common periods of separatist violence in the relevant areas. UNPO chose for its founding headquarters in 1991 The Hague in the Netherlands because of the local support, where popular postcolonialist feelings led to the renaming of several streets after the various states of the dismantled Dutch Empire. UNPO also has offices in Brussels and Washington DC in addition to a network of associates and consultants based around the world. A key UNPO goal was to replicate the success of the 14th Dalai Lama's propagating of the Tibetan independence message, and they often used his name for their own publicity in the early years of the organization.

Tarek Fatah (Urdu: طارق فتح) (born November 20, 1949), is a Canadian political activist, writer, and broadcaster. He is the author of Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State published by John Wiley & Sons. In the book Fatah challenges the notion that the establishment of an Islamic state is a necessary prerequisite to entering the state of Islam. He suggests that the idea of an Islamic state is merely a mirage that Muslims have been made to chase for over a millennium. Chasing a Mirage was shortlisted for the $35,000 Donner Prize for 2008–09.

Fatah's second book, titled The Jew Is Not My Enemy: Unveiling the Myths that Fuel Muslim Anti-Semitism, was published by McClelland & Stewart in October 2010. The book won the 2010 Annual Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Book Award in Politics and History.

In May 2009, Fatah joined CFRB 1010. Later that fall, he joined John Moore's morning show as a contributor. Currently, he hosts "The Tarek Fatah Show" on CFRB NewsTalk 1010' on Sundays.

Marino Busdachin is an Italian politician and human rights activist.

He was born in Umago (Istria, Croatia) in 1956. He moved to Italy with his family in 1961. He studied law at the University of Trieste.

During the 1970s he campaigned for civil rights in Italy (right to conscientious objection, divorce and abortion). He was elected at an early age to the Federal Council of the Transnational Radical Party (1974-present) and the City Council of Trieste (1978-82).

During the 1980s he campaigned with the Transnational Radical Party to promote human, civil and political rights in Eastern Europe and Soviet Union. He was arrested and jailed for his activities in Bulgaria (1982) and in the Soviet Union (1989).

Between 1993 and 1998, he worked in the United States on international campaigns for the establishment of the ad-hoc international tribunals to prosecute war crimes in Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He also lobbied for a moratorium on death penalty at the United Nations where he represented the Transnational Radical Party.

Peter Gary Tatchell (born 25 January 1952) is an Australian-born British political campaigner best known for his work with LGBT social movements. He attracted international attention when he attempted a citizen's arrest of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in 1999 and again in 2001.

Tatchell was selected as Labour Party Parliamentary candidate for Bermondsey in 1981, and was then denounced by party leader Michael Foot for supporting extra-parliamentary action against the Thatcher government. The Labour Party subsequently allowed his selection when he ran in the Bermondsey by-election in February 1983. In the 1990s, he became a prominent LGBT campaigner through the direct action group OutRage!, which he co-founded. He has worked on a wide variety of issues, such as Stop Murder Music, which campaigns against music lyrics that incite violence against LGBT people, and is a frequent contributor on human rights and social justice issues in print and through broadcast media, authoring many articles and six books. In 2006, New Statesman readers voted him sixth on their list of "Heroes of our time".^{[dead link]}