The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal opened its session on transnational corporations in sub-Saharan Africa on 16 and 17 August 2016 in Mbabane, Swaziland, with the aim of examining the consequences of the extractive industry and land grabbing in southern African countries. The cases presented, the testimonies and the expert analyses documented serious and systematic violations of…
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…
The PPT convened in Montreal from May 29 to June 1 at the request of a group of more than 40 organizations from Quebec and the rest of Canada. The request presented to the Tribunal identified a pattern of systematic human rights violations caused by the Canadian mining industry in Latin America. During the…
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