The Tribunal met in Madrid from 8 to 10 October 2025 at the request of four human rights organisations – Rawadari, the Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organisation (AHRDO), the Organisation for Policy Research and Development Studies (DROPS) and Human Rights Defender Plus (HRD+) – to examine the situation of human rights violations in Afghanistan.…
At the request of a network of associations and institutions representing the Kurdish people of Rojava, the Tribunal met in Brussels on 5–6 February 2025. The session examined the alleged crimes of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by senior Turkish officials in north-eastern Syria from 2018 to the present. It concluded with…
The Tribunal met in Berlin for its third session on Sri Lanka, bringing together human rights activists from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America to show solidarity. This session builds on the two previous judgements, delivered in Dublin in 2010 following the massacre of the Tamil population by the Sri Lankan government and in Bremen…
Following the conclusion of the 50th session on Pandemic and Authoritarianism, held at the University of São Paulo’s law faculty, the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) issued a judgment recognizing President Jair Messias Bolsonaro liable for crimes against humanity, and for resulting in the deaths of thousands of people as a consequence of Covid-19 prevention policies.
The Judgment of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) on Political Genocide, Impunity and Crimes Against Peace in Colombia was issued on June 17, 2021, in Bogota.
The PPT panel of judges, composed of Raúl Vera, Andrés Barreda, Lottie Cunningham, Esperanza Martínez, Graciela Daleo, Daniel Feierstein, Luis Moita, Antoni Pigrau Solé, Mireille Fanon, Michel Forst, Philippe Texier, Luciana Castellina, and Luigi Ferrajoli, recognized the Colombian State guilty of the crime of genocide, carried out during the decades of the twentieth century and with greater atrocity during the last nineteen governments, with a central role assumed by the governments chaired by Álvaro Uribe Vélez (years 2002 – 2010).
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal session on Turkey and the Kurdish people was held in Paris on 15 and 16 March 2018. The requesting associations asked the Tribunal to examine the violation of the fundamental human rights of the Kurdish people by the Turkish government. The judgement was announced by the Tribunal’s panel of judges at…
Opening Session – Barcelona, 7-8 July 2017
The general Indictment (English – Spanish)
The preliminary conclusions (Spanish)
Hearing of Palermo, 18-20 December 2017
The Indictment (Italian)
The Sentence of the Tribunal (Italian) (Spanish) (English)
Hearing of Paris, 4-5 January 2018
The Indictment (French)
The Sentence of the Tribunal (French – Spanish)
The Judgment of the final Session of the PPT on State Crimes Allegedly Committed in Myanmar against the Rohingyas, Kachins and Other Groups, held in Kuala Lumpur from 18 to 22 September 2017, is available here.
Download the judgment English – Spanish
Download the judgments of the thematic preliminary hearings and the final session: Introductory Hearing (Ciudad Juárez, 27-29 May 2012) in Spanish First hearing on Violence against workers (Mexico City, 31 May-2 June 2012) in Spanish Second Hearing on Environmental Devastation and Peoples’ Rights (Mexico City, 15-17 November 2013) in Spanish Third hearing on Violence against…
