The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal’s Judgment on The Human Right to Health of Migrant and Refugee Peoples (Berlin, 23-25 October 2020) 45° Session on the Violations of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples The Judgment and the Recommendations formulated by the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) on The Human Right to Health of Migrant…
PERMANENT PEOPLES’ TRIBUNAL Session on the Violations of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples Berlin Hearing, 23-25 October 2020 Tribunal Flyer Video Presentation Draft Program Panel of Judges Streaming The Session of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) on the right to health for migrants and refugee peoples, convened in Berlin (October, 23-25), represents…
“Anniversary books are usually boring. This one really is not, because it helps us understand what has happened in this historic time through discussing facts collected from 47 sentences handed down by the trials held so far” Luciana Castellina – Il Manifesto “This book offers a new vision of international law and of what should…
MORIA burns, again. This documented horror in the heart of Europe, has been denounced from its beginning (2015) by dozens of reports from human rights, humanitarian and other non-governmental organisations. Almost 20,000 (at peak last February) and at the time of the fire, 13,000 human beings were parked in a prison of mud, rubbish and…
Following the conclusion of its long term investigation and judgment (2017-2019) on the necropolitics of the European Union and of its members States in their policies of rejection and repression of the people of migrants, the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) had further expressed its dramatic concern in front of what could only be qualified as…
A DECLARATION OF THE PERMANENT PEOPLES’ TRIBUNAL The depth, extension and intensity of the deterioration over the last several weeks of the already dramatic situation of the hundreds of thousands of migrants – across the scenarios of the Aegean and the Balkan routes, with the concurrent responsibilities of Turkey, Greece, and the European Union –…
The death of Ernesto Cardenal, at 95 years of age, a ‘poet , monk, revolutionary’ as he was describing his identity, has been, and will certainly be further, celebrated by many comments and profiles focused with highly diverse accents on his many lives, as protagonist of the political and cultural history of his country, Nicaragua,…
December 18 has been the International Migrant Day. On the basis of this symbolic date, established in 2000 by the United Nations General Assembly, some groups and organizations about migrants and refugees, previously involved in the 45th session of the PPT (hearings of Palermo 2017, Parigi 2018, Barcellona 2018, Londra 2018, Brussels 2019) signed a…
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal warmly welcomes the strong and unanimous ruling made on 23 January by the 17 judges of the International Court of Justice ordering a range of provisional measures in order to preserve certain rights claimed by The Gambia for the protection of the Rohingya in Myanmar. For the world’s highest court to…
The ongoing tragic events in Syria, where Erdogan’s violent attack on the Kurdish people of Syria has translated into direct massacres and massive expulsion and migrations of the civilian populations, coincide dramatically with the absence (which cannot but be considered a substantial connivance) of the community of states and of its supreme representative organisations. Confronted…
