May 2024

London, 27th-29th June 2024: PPT Session on State and environmental violence in West Papua

The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT), established in 1979 on the basis of the Universal Declaration of Peoples’ Rights, and in compliance with its Statute, has opened a procedure to investigate the environmental impacts of development in West Papua and the human rights violations linked to those practices. The PPT was asked by some of the most important human rights…

The “plausible genocide” of the Palestinian people as the test of the credibility of the international order of the States

The situation in Gaza – with horizons of ever evanescent ‘ceasefire’ agreements, the persistence of absolutely critical regional geopolitical conditions, the impotence of United Nations initiatives, the open questions about the degree of autonomy of the competent international courts – does not allow for optimistic estimates of possible solutions. While it is to be hoped…