The judgment of the 54th session of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) on Rojava vs. Turkey was presented to the European Parliament in Brussels on 26 March 2025. In addition to the judges and the General Secretary of the PPT, representatives of the prosecution, the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, Shirin Ebadi and Jody Williams, and…
PRESENTATION OF THE JUDGMENT ON ROJAVA VS. TURKEY 26 March 2025, 14.00 – 16.00 CET European Parliament – Brussels Entrance: Place Luxembourg Opening Session 14.00-14.10 Gianni TOGNONI, Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal General Secretary Main Session 14.10-14.55 Presentation of the judgment, Frances WEBBER, president of the panel and judges Giacinto BISOGNI, José Elías ESTEVE MOLTÓ, Gabrielle…
Download the statement in pdf This is the preliminary statement of the panel of judges of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, 54th session, sitting in Brussels on 5 and 6 February 2025 to decide on the responsibility of senior Turkish officials for alleged crimes of aggression, war crimes, crimes against humanity in Rojava, north-east…
The 54° session of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) will be held on 5-6 February 2025 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Brussels, Belgium, to examine allegations of severe human rights violations and war crimes committed by Turkey and its allied forces in North and East Syria, known as Rojava. The Tribunal will examine…
The short text on Rojava published in Volere la Luna sums up better than any general reflection the emotional and conceptual experience of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal in this end-of-year time, classically dedicated to budgets and forecasts. The erasure and denial of peoples as subjects of their own history are the absolute protagonists of the…
The PPT judgement on State and Environmental Violence in West Papua was presented on 1rst October at the 57th session of the UN Human Rights Council (Download the full judgement). The request which led to the public hearings held at Queen Mary University of London, from 27th to 29th June 2024, was put forward by…
Human Rights Council 57 Side Event Human Rights Situation in West Papua October 1, 13.00-14.00 CET Room XXV, Palais des Nations Hybrid event: English (recording with subtitles in Bahasa Indonesia available post event) Background The human rights situation in West Papua, Indonesia, continues to be extremely concerning. In the first 6 months of…
From June 27-29, 2024, the PPT held a session in London at Queen Mary University (QMU) to give voice to the peoples of West Papua and to examine Indonesia’s responsibility in the increasing violence and repression against them and to the detriment of the environment. The session had been requested in February under an urgent…
The tragic news of the attack on lawyer Yan Christian Warinussy happened Wednesday, July 17, 2024, has reached the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) in the middle of the last phase of the session on State and Environmental Violence in West Papua, held at Queen Mary University on June 27-29. As director of the Legal Aid, Research, Investigation…
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…
