At the request of a coalition of civil society organisations from the Maghreb, the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal held a public session on Human rights violations against migrants by the Maghreb States, the European Union and its member States, which took place in Palermo from 23 to 25 October 2025, in conjunction with the Sabir Festival…
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…
At the request of Queen Mary University’s Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice (CCCCJ) and a network of human rights and environmental organisations, the Tribunal met in London from 27 to 29 June 2024 to examine human rights violations committed by the Indonesian government against the indigenous peoples of West Papua. In particular, the…
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…
On 19 September, in Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague, the panel of judges of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) delivered its judgment following a process of public hearings inaugurated in November 2021 at the request of Safer World for Truth Coalition – composed by Free Press Unlimited, Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders, and supported by the Syrian Centre for Press and Freedom of Expression and the Centre for Justice and Accountability – and articulated in three different thematic hearings each dedicated one of the exemplary cases for the murder of journalists: from Mexico, Miguel Angel López Velasco, from Sri Lanka, Lasantha Wickrematunge, and from Syria, Nabil Walid Al-Sharbaji.
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.
1. Opening session, 10 September 2021
A. Indictment (Spanish – Portuguese)
B. Case file (Portuguese)
2. Thematic hearing on water, 30 November and 1 December 2021
A. Statement of the panel of judges (English – Italian – Spanish – Portuguese)
B. Prosecutorial Materials: General Recommendations, Urgent and Necessary Measures for the Protection of the Cerrado Waters (Portuguese)
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).
On January 2018, the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) has been requested to formulate an Advisory Opinion (download here) on the activities included under the label of fracking and other unconventional oil and gas extraction techniques, and on climate change, with respect to their impact on the fundamental rights of affected populations and on the rights of nature. The request had been promoted, formulated and signed by qualified representatives of academic groups and community organizations. The Session took place via a virtual platform (Zoom) on 14-18 May 2018.
