CHamoru Self-Determination: Development, democracy and decolonization in Guam amid a military build-up
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) has made a submission to the Inter-American Commission highlighting the violation of the right to self-determination of the CHamoru people of Guam. The submission comes in response to a request for input on the self-determination rights of indigenous populations in America. It follows a recent letter of allegation sent from three UN experts to the government of the USA expressing concern that the rights of the indigenous CHamoru people, including their rights to self-determination, are being violated, and a petition to the Inter-American Commission by an indigenous CHamoru leader.
UNPO: CHamoru Self-Determination: Development, democracy and decolonization in Guam amid a military build-up
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UNPO: USA has not supported self-determination for the Chamorro people of Guam say UN Experts
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Guam: UNPO petition highlights violations of right to self-determinaton of CHamoru People
On 18 December 2020, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and a leading campaigner for the right to self-determination of the CHamoru people of Guam, Hope Alvarez Cristobal, filed a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights alleging systematic violation of the right to self-determination of the CHamoru people by the government of the United States of America. At the heart of the petition was the refusal of the US federal courts to allow a non-binding referendum of the native inhabitants of Guam on their status.
Guam is currently a U.S.-administered non-self-governing territory, whose decolonization process has been obstructed for over a century in violation of international law. Inhabited for over 3,500 years by the indigenous CHamoru people, Guam’s native inhabitants have suffered numerous harms since the United States took colonial control, including