9 November, h 6.30 pm Lelio and Lisli Basso Foundation, Conference hall The International Committee for the Development of People (Cisp) call for the public debate on the peace process in Colombia with Francisco De Roux S.J. Interventions Luigi Grando, Director Latin America, CISP Gianni Tognoni, General Secretariat, Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal
The Second Session of the Open Ended Inter-Governmental Working Group (OEIGWG) at the Human Rights Council with the mandate to establish a Binding Treaty on Transnational Corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights takes place in Geneva from 24th to 28th October. In June 2014, the Human Rights Council adopted Resolution 26/9,…
Revealing the Judgement of the Permanent People’s Tribunal on the Turin-Lyon high speed Rail link. Unsustainable useless large infrastructure projects: Stop the waste of Money Wednesday 26 October 2016 – 17.00 19.00 – Strasbourg meeting room S.2.1 Web streaming: goo.gl/WhE4MW Welcome Speech: Merja Kyllonen, MEP GUE NGL Coordinator in Transport committee Delivery of…
Democracy and megaprojects. The Verdict of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal 7 October 2016, h 17.30 Fondazione Basso discussants: Umberto Allegretti, jurist, University of Florence Tomaso Montanari, University Federico II of Naples Livio Pepino, president of Controsservatorio Val Susa Franco Ippolito, president of Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Chairperson: Nicoletta Dentico, Lelio and Lisli Basso Foundation
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) held its opening Session on Transnational Corporations in Southern Africa in Manzini, Swaziland, on 16-17 August 2016. The PPT analyzed a sample of cases based in Swaziland, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia and Mozambique, regarding corporate intervention in the critical areas of the extractive industries and land grabbing. In its Statement,…
Download the program of the international conference No century in human history, before the 20th century, has had the privilege of witnessing so much interest, so many declarations and so much legislation about human rights, globally. Indeed never before, with a few short-lived exceptions, had people attempted to establish a language of human rights, to…
In the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Peoples’ Rights (the Algiers Declaration), which Lelio Basso promoted together with other major intellectuals and policymakers of his time, the Lelio e Lisli Basso Foundation and the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal have the pleasure to announce the international conference “The Universal Declaration of Peoples’ Rights, its legacy…
