25 September 2023, 4 p.m. Hybrid meeting Medico international, Lindleystr. 15, 60314 Frankfurt am Main, Germany The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is happy to announce the launch event of the 3rd Judgment on Sri Lanka. This event marks the third stage of a long, and very meaningful, process that has engaged the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, through…
On Monday, Chile commemorated the 50th anniversary of the military coup that inaugurated a bloody dictatorship holding a ceremony at the government palace in La Moneda attended by several regional leaders. The military regime led by General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) killed 3,200 people, of whom 1,469 disappeared. Half a century later, 297 repressors have been…
The title of this note is the same one that the PPT decided to use as a symbol and summary of its presented judgment as the conclusion of a long process of research and documentation on “Free trade, violence, impunity and peoples’ rights in Mexico (2011-2014)”, with the massive participation of testimonies and movements from…
Click here to access the file The Secretariat of Human Rights under the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights has translated excerpts from relevant judgments relating to the trial of those responsible for the crimes committed during the last military dictatorship (which took place in Argentina between 1976 and 1983). Most interestingly, the selection takes note of…
The Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) judgment on the genocidal persecution and expulsion of Rohingyas people into Bangladesh, back in 2017, was the first systematic documentation of the Myanmar military junta’s criminal responsibility (openly shared by the former Prime Minister Aung San Suu Kyi). The pieces of evidence produced by the PPT were further and repetitively…
by Franco Ippolito This contribution, authored by Franco Ippolito, past President of the PPT (2014-2017), provides a reflection on the specific and present significance of the professional and political role of the second President of our Tribunal, Salvatore Senese (2004-2014). Senese played a major role in the Italian institutional scenario by promoting the increasing importance…
The Tribunal becomes theatre. Artist Patricia Allio proposes a documentary performance on migration policies inspired by the session that the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal held in Paris in 2018 on the rights of migrants and refugees. The theatrical Project DISPAK DISPAC’H stems from the study and participation in the research project carried out by the Permanent…
The international greeting that accompanied the news of Luís Moita’s death on 28 January – made up primarily of thanks for his unique combination of intelligence, political commitment to the history of the liberation and decolonisation of Portugal and Africa, and the richness and transparency of human relations, of creative networking in social and cultural…
Thulani Maseko acted as a judge of the first session of the PPT on multinational corporations in the Southern African Developing Countries (SADC) held in Manzini, Swaziland, in 2016. Here the 43rd Session on Transnational Corporations in Southern Africa (2016-2018) At the time of his death —the evening of January 21, 2023, in front of…
Following the conclusion of the 50th session on Pandemic and Authoritarianism, held at the University of São Paulo, the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) issued a judgment last September which, based on witnesses and the voices of the Brazilian communities, has recognized President Jair Bolsonaro liable for serious crimes against humanity concerning his management of Covid-19, and his…
