Nagalim Voice May-June 2025
24th SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS PERMANENT FORUM ON INDIGENOUS ISSUES (UNPFII)
UNPO (Unrepresented Nations Peoples Organization) Raises Concern Over Human Rights Violations Against the Naga People
Concern of the human rights violations against its member state, Nagalim, the UNPO delivered an intervention addressing the serious ongoing human rights violations faced by the Naga people in Northeast India and Northwest Myanmar. The statement focused on the continued impunity surrounding the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), the scrapping of the Free Movement Regime (FMR), and the systematic persecution and repression of the Naga people.
UNPO’s intervention called attention to the continued failure of the Indian government to implement the 2015 Framework Agreement. UNPO pointedly referred to the Government of India’s refusal to get serious dialogue with NSCN to implement the agreement.
UNPO never spared India for the scrapping of FMR and border fencing which violates the rights of the Naga peoples’ indigenous rights.
The recent incident of human rights violation on Secretary General of Naga People’s Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR), Mr. Neingulo Krome by the Indian authorities was also taken up.
At the end, UNPO calls on the international community to stand with the Naga people and to uphold the principles of dignity, self-determination, and justice that the UNDRIP (UN Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples) demands.