News from the PPT

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…

Find here the Summary of the Judgment 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…

The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) will hold the closing act of the session on crimes against journalists and freedom of expression on September 19, 2022, at the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague, from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. CET (HERE the video presentation of the event) The PPT proceedings were opened in response to a…

The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) will hold on 1 September 2022 in São Paulo, Brazil, from 10 am 12:30 pm Brazilian time, the closing act of the session ‘Pandemic and Authoritarianism. The responsibility of the Bolsonaro government for the systematic violations of the fundamental rights of Brazilian peoples perpetrated through the policies imposed in the…

The final hearing of the PPT session dedicated to violations of the human, environmental and territorial rights of the traditional peoples and peoples of the Cerrado will be held in the city of Goiania, Brazil, from 8 to 10 July 2022, at the Dom Fernando Pastoral Centre. The PPT jury will present its decision at…

The tragic news of the “Guapoy Massacre”, committed on 24 June 2022 and documented by testimonies and reports of the National Campaign in Defence of the Cerrado Territory, has reached the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal in the middle of the last phase of the session on the human, environmental and territorial rights of the Cerrado peoples,…

The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) will held  in São Paulo, Brazil, on May 24 and 25, 2022, the Session on “Pandemic and Authoritaniarism. The responsibility of the Bolsonaro government for systematic violations of the fundamental rights of the Brazilian peoples perpetrated through the policies imposed in the Covid-19 pandemic”.  This Session is organized in response to a request received from…

Following the Sessions held in Dublin (14-16 January 2010) and Bremen (7-10 December 2013), the third Peoples’ Tribunal on Sri Lanka will take place under the aegis of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on 20-22 May 2022 in Berlin. As was the case with previous sessions, this third session was requested by the Internationaler Menschenrechtsverein Bremen (https://humanrights.de/) in collaboration…

In continuity with the Opening session on the Murder of Journalists realized in The Hague on 2 November 2021 and the first hearing realized in Mexico City on 26-27 April, the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) will hold the second and third thematic hearings on Sri Lanka and Syria on 12-13 and 16-17 May 2022 at…