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…
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…
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.…
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…
