List of active national liberation movements recognized by intergovernmental organizations
This is a list of active national liberation movements currently recognized by intergovernmental organizations. == Background == Throughout the 1970s, the United Nations General Assembly recognized several national liberation movements as "legitimate representatives" of colonial people, with SWAPO of Namibia and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) of Palestine holding non-state observer status at the General Assembly until 1990 and 2012, respectively.