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The amount number of information sources available to you is massive, so before you start your research think carefully about what type of information are you looking for in regards to your MUN topic. 

Information is available through many sources - books, periodical articles, scholarly articles, websites, journal articles, encyclopedias, government documents - the list is endless. 

Be careful of where the information has come from. Ask yourself which country disseminated the information? Who is the intended audience? Is the information accurate or biased?

Aspiring Nations Resources

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Abkhazia (Minority Rights Group) 

Abkhaz in Georgia (Minority Rights Group) 

The Abkhaz in Turkey: Navigating identity, unity and belonging (Minority Rights Group) 

Abkhazia (UNPO)  

UNPO and Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Abkhazia organized a cultural event in Rome (UNPO) 3 July 2019  

Coronavirus: UN Facilitates Aid to Abkhazia (UNPO) 14 April 2020 

Act of State Independence of the Republic of Abkhazia (UNPO) 12 January 2018 

Abkhazia profile (BBC News) 19 November 2024 

Abkhazians - Summary (eHRAF World Cultures) 

Abkhazians - Who are they? By Yuri N. Voronov (Abkhaz World)  

In the shadow of the Ukraine war: what's next for Abkhazia? (Topchubashov Center) 7 December 2023  

Abkhazia – Russia’s tight embrace (ECFR) 1 September 2016 

Abkhazia: Freedom in the World 2022 Country Report (Freedom House)  

Stances of both sides hardening as confrontation plays out in Abkhazia (Eurasianet) 18 November 2024 

Abkhazia’s Domestic Crisis and Regional Implications (Special Eurasia) 17 November 2024 

Abkhazia: Georgia breakaway region's leader resigns (BBC) 19 November 2024 

Unrepresented Nations & Peoples Organizations: West Balochistan (United Nations)

Where is Balochistan and why is it the target of Iran and Pakistan strikes? (The Guardian)

The “government” of Balochistan, leadership (Gov Of Balochistan)

Iran’s Ethnic groups regarding the Baluchis peoples (CFR)

The Baluchis in Afghanistan (Minority Rights Group)

Baloch People, History, & Culture (Britannica) 

The United States Department of Justice regarding the Baluchis people (USDF)

Digital Warfare: The Baloch Liberation Army’s Tactical Use of Social Media in the Herof Attack (Global Network on Extremism and Technology) 

Baloch population scattered around the world (The Balochistan Post) 

The Balochistan Liberation Army (The Diplomat) 

The Baloch Diaspora: Connecting Communities across the Globe (The Balochistan Diaries) 

Baloch diaspora: A closer look at brain drain in Balochistan (Pakistan Today)

Changing Dynamics of Baloch Insurgency: Implications for National Stability and Security (Journal of Asian Development Studies) 

 Directorate of Protocol and International Relations (Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo) 2019

Kosovo: Dialogue and building trust, key to defusing tensions (UN News) 23 October 2023

Kosovo (CIA World Factbook) 06 December 2023

Behind the Renewed Troubles in Northern Kosovo (International Crisis Group) 07 June 2023

The European Union and Kosovo (European Union) 20 October 2021

United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) 2023

UNDP Kosovo (United Nations Development Programme) 2023

Political Impasse on Kosovo, Rising Tensions between Pristina, Belgrade Can Only Be Overcome by Compromise, Mission Head Tells Security Council (United Nations Press) 23 October 2023

Kosovo profile (British Broadcasting Corporation) 28 June 2023

Countries call on EU to remove measures against Kosovo (Politico) 13 December 2023

Kurdistan Ossetia Palestine

Rojava

Human Rights Practice Iraq (U.S Department of State) 2023

Kurdistan Economic Overview 2010

Kurdistan Population 2023 

Kurdistan Britannica background 20 December 2024 

The current crisis in Kurdistan (Council on Foreign Relations)

Kurdistan Official Foreign Relations

Kurdistan's Official Security forces

Kurdistans Timeline of the Struggle of statelessness

 

Iraq Kurdistan regin economic development assessment (USAID) December 2008

 

Iraq the World Fact Book (CIA) 30 December 2024

Minority Rights Group South Ossetia Profile (2023)

UNPO Georgia Profile (Includes information on South Ossetia) (June 6, 2018)

Ossetian People Profile (Ossetians.com) (2006)

Russia Praises South Ossetia Dropping Unification Referendum (Eurasianet) (June 1, 2022)

CIA FactBook information on South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia (January 2, 2025)

European Council Works to Protect Human Rights in South Ossetia Through Anti-Torture Committee (October 3, 2008)

Draft Committee of Declaration on the “referendum” planned (European Council)in the Tskhinvali Region/South Ossetia, Georgia, on 12 November 2006

South Ossetia Seeks to Become Part of Russia (Reuters) (March 17, 2024)

Russia Ready to Help Normalize Relations With Abkhazia and South Ossetia (Georgia Today) (September 30, 2024)

The Ossetian Neverendum (European Council on Foreign Relations) (September 1, 2016)

Developments in South Ossetia (Freedom House) (2020)

South Ossetian Government Faces Crisis (The Central Caucasus Analyst) (December 21, 2023)

Minority Rights Group Ossetians People Profile Within Georgia (September 2018)

Along These Shifting Borders, Life is Full of Unease and Adversity (National Geographic) (May 17, 2018)

The Question of Palestine (United Nations) 26 Sep 2024

Palestine’s status (United Nations) 18 Apr 2024 

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) 2019

Occupied Palestinian territory (United Nations Population Fund) 11 Dec 2024

State of Palestine (United Nations) 2025

United Nations in Palestine (United Nations) 2023

What do Palestinians want? (Washington Institute) 2021

“I refuse a cheap death”: Israel kills Palestinian journalist in Gaza (Al Jazeera) 2025

Israeli strike kills 11 people, including head of Gaza police, Palestinian officials say (CNN World) 2 Jan 2025

Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza (Amnesty International) 5 Dec 2024 

Gaza death toll nears 45,500 as Israel kills 48 more Palestinians (Anadolu Ajansi) 28 Dec 2024

Israeli settlers kidnap, abuse two Palestinian boys near Bethlehem (The New Arab) 15 Aug 2024 

Israel’s siege now blocks 83% of food aid reaching Gaza, new data reveals (Norwegian Refugee Council) 16 Sep 2024

A Pathway Towards Sustainable Peace in Palestine and Israel (The Elders) 18 Sep 2024 

Surviving 2024 in Gaza (Aljazeera) 31 Dec 2024 

Gaza’s 2024: A year of war and misery (Aljazeera) 31 Dec 2024

Mission statement from Kurdish Human Rights Project (KHRP)

Rojava’s Future: Four Models Explained (Washington Institute) 5 June 2017

Questions and Answers: Turkey’s Threatened Incursion into Northern Syria (HRW) 17 August 2022

Syria: The Silenced Kurds (HRW) October 1996

Who are the Syrian Democratic Forces? (Al Jazeera) 15 October 2019

Syrian Democratic Forces (ECFR) 10 November 2020

The United States and Turkey Agree to Ceasefire in Northeast Syria (The White House) 17 October 2019

Relations between Türkiye and the Russian Federation (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 2016

A Strategy for Ending the Syrian Civil War (CNAS) 7 June 2017

Somaliland Tuareg United Bengal United Korea

Somaliland country profile including demographics, culture, identity, current political situation, and history (UNPO) 

The Arab League’s Involvement in Relations between Ethiopia and Somaliland (Security Council report) 

IGAD’s involvement in Somaliland since the Somali conflict in 1991 (Friedrich Ebert-Stiftung) 

Ethiopia and Somaliland signed the memorandum of understanding (MoU) (ISPI)

The Somaliland Health and Demographic Survey 2020 (UNFPA) 

Somaliland November 2024 election (International Crisis Group) 

Youth unemployment in Somaliland (IOM) 

Somaliland Poverty Profile and Overview of Living Conditions, Including Poverty Rate (Somaliland CSD) 

Human Rights Law of Somaliland in Constitution Chapter 1 Part 3 (Somaliland Law

Somaliland local news source (Somaliland.com)

News about Conflict in Somaliland (Aljazeera) 

Conflict in Somaliland in Lasanod (Danish Institute for Foreign Studies)

Tuareg in Mali (MRG)   

Tuareg in Niger (MRG)

Tuareg in Libya (MRG)

What do the Tuareg Want? (Al Jazeera) 9 January 2014

Maternal and Paternal Heritage of the Tuareg Nomads from the African Sahel(NIH) 17 March 2010

Tuareg (Britannica) 6 December 2024

The Tribulations of the Tuareg (Al Jazeera) 20 November 2010

Enslavement of the Bellah people by the Tuareg (UNPO) 6 July 2023

Mali's Tuareg people Retain Dream of Independence Amid Persecution (The Guardian) 3 April 2013 

Tuareg rebels claim control of northern Mali town after weeks of fighting (Al Jazeera) 12 September 2023

2015 Tuareg Peace Deal with Mali (BBC) 20 June 2015

Rejected by the homeland: Stateless Libyan Tuareg and the role of migration (European Network on Statelessness) June 2022

The United Bengal Chronicles | Story.com

United Bengali Liberation Front, Tripura, India, South Asia Terrorism Portal

Abul Hashim and Revisiting the United Bengal Plan (1946-47) | The Daily Star

UNITED BENGAL PLAN - Optimize IAS

United Independent Bengal Movement - Banglapedia

Theorizing the Bengali Nation: Abul Hashim and the United Bengal Movement, 1937 – 1947 by Sucharita Sen (2024): A Review by Krishnayan Das - Doing Sociology

Bengali | Language, Cuisine & History | Britannica

Britannica School Bengal

Bengalis | Encyclopedia.com

South Korea IMUNA Profile (IMUNA )11 November  2019

North Korea IMUNA Profile (IMUNA) 9 July 2019

United Korea Ministry Of Foreign Affairs ( MOFA) 8 March 2022

South Korea United Nations Profile (UN) 18 October  2017

North Korea United Nations Profile (UN) 2 October 2023

South Korea Military Development (BR) 5 February  2023

North Korea Government Development (BR) Auagusy 27 2023

South Korea Political View (Embassy) 8 December 2022

North Korea Country Report (FR) 7 January 2020

South Korea Human Rights Watch (HRC) 3 February 2023

North Korea Human Rights Watch (HRC) 5 June 2023

Uyghurs Yoruba    

Uyghurs in Kyrgyzstan (MRG)  

Uyghurs in Kazakhstan (MRG)  

Uyghurs in China (MRG)

Kazakhstan IMUNA (IMUNA)

Kyrgyzstan IMUNA (IMUNA)

East Turkestan UNPO (UNPO)

East Turkestan: World Uyghur Congress and Uyghur Human Rights Project Submit CAT Alternative Report (UNPO)  

Uyghurs in Chin (CIA)  

UN Human Rights Office issues assessment of human rights concerns in Xinjiang, China (UNHR)

China’s Strategic Objective in Oppressing the Uyghurs (New Lines institute)

Looking for Home Around the World: The Uyghur Diaspora and Its Needs (Freedom House) 

China is erasing their culture. In exile, Uyghurs remain defiant. (National Geographic) 

The Uyghur Diaspora’s Desperate Search for Family Members in China (The Diplomat) 

Yoruba (Britannica) 12 December 2024

Yoruba Location, Language, History (KU) 

The Yoruba People, a history (Aaregistry)

Meet the Ooni of Ife, the leader of Nigeria’s Yoruba (AI Jazeera) 2 September 2017

Explanations around physical abuse, neglect and preventive strategies among older Yoruba people (NIH) 21 November 2019

The Yoruba Peoples (AfricaSi)

60m Yoruba ready to exit Nigeria, UK studying request – Akintoye (Punchng) 7 January 2025

Yoruba Nation: Igboho Vows ‘No Going Back’ in 2025 (MeteorNigeria) 1 January 2025

Nigerian Soldiers are targeting Yorùbá Self-Determination Youths – Prof Banji Akintoye (YSDM) 7 November 2022

Colonialism and Yoruba Society: Transformations, Challenges, and Resilience (Oriire) 4 November 2023

   

 

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