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…
The history of Turkish oppression and violations of the fundamental rights of the Kurdish people, starting from the right to self-determination recognized by international law, is long and atrocious, as numerous international researches and investigations denounce. In breach of human rights and people’s rights, the Kurds are systematically excluded from any economic and political decision-making…
The history of Turkish oppression and violations of the fundamental rights of the Kurdish people, starting from the right to self-determination recognized by international law, is long and atrocious, as numerous international researches and investigations denounce. In breach of human rights and people’s rights, the Kurds are systematically excluded from any economic and political decision-making…
Salvatore Senese, one of the founders and protagonists of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal throughout its 40 years of activity, and its President from 2003 to 2014, left us on June 16, 2019. His history as a magistrate in the Italian institutional reality has been so intense and innovative in promoting the concrete, political and cultural…
