Tomorrow marks four month since the death of Nallelly Sepúlveda and Edison David, members of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó (CdP), Colombia, who were shot on 19 March 2024 in their home in Las Delicias, La Esperanza. In spite of its name, La Esperanza (in English, The Hope) and, in general, the…
A PPT public hearing on State and environmental violence in West Papua was held at Queen Mary University of London from 27 to 29 July. The rigorous analysis of the impressive written, visual and oral documentation led to a formal preliminary statement that was delivered on 29 July, responding very clearly and affirmatively to the…
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 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…
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) recently concluded in The Hague one of its most significant sessions on the impunity of the murder of journalists and media workers. The session highlighted how one of the most notorious crimes in international law, that of the “elimination” (this non-legal term reflects the concrete reality) of the guarantors of…
Israel-Usa: end-of-year message from the “exemplary democracies” Gianni Tognoni, Secretary General of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (Article published in Volere la luna) The reports and analyses of what has been happening for more than two months now between Gaza and the West Bank are so widespread, even in the profound differentiation of…
On 25 September 2023, in Frankfurt, the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal’s (PPT) international panel of judges presented the judgment for the third and final session of the proceedings dedicated to the Eelam Tamil people of Sri Lanka’s genocide, already examined by the PPT in its Dublin (2010) and Bremen (2014) sessions. The indictment, formulated by the…
The third session of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka launched its judgment on September 25, 2023, where human rights activists from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America participated – virtually and in presence – in a display of people-to-people solidarity, further emphasising the role of the Tribunal as an institution listening to peoples’…
25 September 2023, 4 p.m. Hybrid meeting Medico international, Lindleystr. 15, 60314 Frankfurt am Main, Germany The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is happy to announce the launch event of the 3rd Judgment on Sri Lanka. This event marks the third stage of a long, and very meaningful, process that has engaged the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, through…
On Monday, Chile commemorated the 50th anniversary of the military coup that inaugurated a bloody dictatorship holding a ceremony at the government palace in La Moneda attended by several regional leaders. The military regime led by General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) killed 3,200 people, of whom 1,469 disappeared. Half a century later, 297 repressors have been…
