The 53° 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…
A PPT public hearing on State and environmental violence in West Papua was held at Queen Mary University of London from 27 to 29 July. The rigorous analysis of the impressive written, visual and oral documentation led to a formal preliminary statement that was delivered on 29 July, responding very clearly and affirmatively to the…
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT), established in 1979 on the basis of the Universal Declaration of Peoples’ Rights, and in compliance with its Statute, has opened a procedure to investigate the environmental impacts of development in West Papua and the human rights violations linked to those practices. The PPT was asked by some of the most important human rights…
The situation in Gaza – with horizons of ever evanescent ‘ceasefire’ agreements, the persistence of absolutely critical regional geopolitical conditions, the impotence of United Nations initiatives, the open questions about the degree of autonomy of the competent international courts – does not allow for optimistic estimates of possible solutions. While it is to be hoped…
