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August 27, 2010
In response to a cry for help from Tanzania, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) called upon the Minister of Tourism in the East African country on Friday to stop the expulsion of Maasai from the Loliondo Game Control Area. "Please do not renew
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August 25, 2010
Dear Minister,
We well remember taking part with the young novice politician Guido Westerwelle in an event in the Market Square of the then German Federal capital of Bonn in 1992, condemning the genocide that was taking place in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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August 24, 2010
Since January 2010, at least 964 civilians have been killed and 2,717 wounded in armed conflicts or in random shootings in residential neighborhoods, as reported by the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP). "While the atrocious attack by Islamic rebels in which members of the Somali parliament were killed kindles outrage around world, the daily suffering of the civilian population in Somalia attracts hardly any attention," notes Ulrich Delius, head of the Africa section at the STP on Tuesday in Göttingen.
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August 20, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) condemns yesterday's attack by a Uighur on a police patrol in the city of Aksu (Xinjiang Autonomous Region/East Turkestan) in northwestern China. Seven people were killed and 14 wounded in the attack. "Violence is not the solution to the growing problems in northwestern China; it just fuels tensions in the region," declared Ulrich Delius, head of the Asia section at the STP.
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August 20, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) has accused the Mauritanian government of systematically defaming and intimidating critics of slavery and restricting their freedom of movement. On the occasion of the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition (August 23) the human rights organization called for support of Mauritanian civil rights activists who, in spite of persecution by the state, continue to denounce the ongoing slavery practices in this northwest African country.
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August 18, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) welcomes the action brought today by the German Federal Public Prosecutor's Office against a former mayor from Rwanda who is suspected of genocide. "The instigation of criminal proceedings against this presumed mass murderer makes Germany's commitment to democracy and human rights more credible," declared Ulrich Delius, head of the Africa section at the STP in Göttingen, Germany.
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August 17, 2010
In response to further expulsions of international aid workers from Darfur, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) have appealed to the UN Security Council to demand immediate and full access for relief organizations to the displaced and distressed in Sudan and an end to the harassment of aid workers. "Sudanese authorities are systematically obstructing the efforts of humanitarian aid workers from other countries," said Ulrich Delius, head of the Africa section at STP, on Tuesday. "The international community can no longer stand by while more than 4 million Darfuris in dire need of aid are held hostage by the Sudanese government in their conflict with the International Criminal Court (ICC)."
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August 13, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) has accused the Sudanese government of breaking international law with its blockade of the Kalma Refugee Camp in southern Darfur, in which 82,000 people are currently living. "Humanitarian international law forbids the intentional starving of civilians by a government and further prohibits collective punishment of a civilian population,” said Ulrich Delius, the consultant for Africa at the STP, on Friday in Göttingen. "Sudanese President Omar Hassan al Bashir, currently under investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for suspicion of genocide, is suspected of committing war crimes as well as crimes against humanity.” The STP has appealed to the European Union (EU) to demand an immediate removal of the blockade.
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August 12, 2010
31 Mapuche political prisoners are now one month into an indefinitely long hunger strike in Chile. On Thursday the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) turned to the International Committee of the Red Cross (IKRK) with an urgent appeal to oversee the medical support of the 31 hunger strikers. "We are greatly concerned about the health of the civil rights activists being held in five detention facilities in Chile. We have asked the IKRK to visit them and to ensure that they are receiving the necessary medical attention,” stated Yvonne Bangert, the consultant for indigenous peoples at the STP.
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August 10, 2010
Christians will be protesting countrywide in Pakistan tomorrow on Pakistan’s "Minorities Day” against the discrimination and lack of protection they face. The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) reported on Tuesday that Christians in Pakistan have declared August 11th to be a "Black Day” because they are refusing to accept the attacks by radical Muslims and the power of state security forces in silence. "The most recent murders of Christians and the continuous misuse of the Blasphemy laws are the final straw,” said Ulrich Delius, the consultant for Asia at the STP. "The Christians in Pakistan do not wish to be second-class citizens any longer. They are tired of the empty promises made by the government and are demanding effective actions on the part of the authorities in order to prevent further attacks.”
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August 09, 2010
Close to 500 delegates from various indigenous Amazonian peoples are gathering in Altamira in the state of Pará on the banks of the Xingu River today, the International Day of indigenous Peoples, to participate in a four-day "protest camp.” The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) in Göttingen announced on Monday, that the Indians are using the motto "In Defense of the Xingu River against Belo Monte” to demonstrate above all that they still have a chance to avert the controversial construction of the Belo Monte Dam.
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August 09, 2010
Today more than ever, indigenous peoples around the world are standing with their backs to the proverbial wall. The Society for Threatened Peoples is drawing attention to this situation with its release of a four-page Memorandum on the UN International Day of indigenous Peoples (August 9th). "In many cases, their drinking water is contaminated by mining projects or they don’t have enough land in order for the community to survive on hunting, fishing and land cultivation,” criticizes the STP. "All they want is to be able to live undisturbed on their ancestral land in their traditional ways.”
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August 09, 2010
As the presidential elections take place today in Rwanda, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) is raising serious charges against President Paul Kagame. "In Ruanda, the elections have created a graveyard silence instead of democracy because opposition politicians and critics of the government have been systematically silenced,” criticized Ulrich Delius, the Africa consultant at the STP. Kagame is using the horrors of the past to shut down dissidents: they are accused arbitrarily of fueling ethnic tensions as in 1994. A million Tutsi and moderate Hutu fell victim to the genocide at the time. "As one of the primary European partners of this Central African country, Germany may not simply stand aside and watch this happen,” stated Delius. The German government needs to become more involved in working towards democracy and the protection of human rights in Rwanda.
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August 04, 2010
Debates around the disclosure of the "Afghan War Diary” from Wikileaks on July 25th and the Kabul Conference on July 20th demonstrate large holes in the discussion, criticized the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) on Wednesday. "The dedication of Afghani human rights activists to the democratizing of Afghanistan and the enforcement of human rights has been largely ignored in both German and international conversations,” deplored Tillmann Schmalzried, consultant for Afghanistan at the STP. In order to successfully achieve a state under the rule of law, the international community must put its energy into strengthening Afghani human rights activists instead of partnering with warlords who are more interested in the benefits of war.
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August 03, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples has called upon France’s Secretary of State Bernard Kouchner to come clean about the fate of two nomads kidnapped in northern Mali by a combined military action between France and Mauritania against the terrorist organization "Al Qaida in Maghreb” (AQMI) at the end of July 2010. "Paris needs to take responsibility for its actions. Human rights should not be ignored or otherwise compromised in the fight against terrorism,” stated Ulrich Delius, the Africa consultant at the STP. "Now is the time to prevent such attacks on civilians from becoming an everyday reality as they are in Afghanistan and Iraq.” Over the last few weeks the STP has given multiple warnings against the escalating violence in the Sahara.
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July 30, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) demands the immediate abolishment of the blasphemy ban in the Pakistani government’s penal code in order to prevent further attacks on members of religious minorities.
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 Children in a refugee camp in Sam Ouandjam/Darfur
July 28, 2010
On Wednesday, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) declared the situation for the civilian population in West Sudan, which has been a battleground for the last seven years, a catastrophe. "At least 1,221 people have been killed due to fighting in Darfur since May of 2010,” stated Ulrich Delius, the consultant for Africa at the STP. "More than 110,000 people have been forced to flee their villages since February 2010 due to military conflicts. Providing for the tens of thousands of destitute civilians in southern as well as northern Darfur is regularly endangered by the fighting.”
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Ismail Besikci receives the Osman-Sabri Prize for his dedication to the Kurds (Foto_GfbV.Archiv)
July 27, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) has labeled the planned law suit against internationally renowned Turkish sociologist and author Ismail Beşikçi as a "scandelous attempt to silence a critical voice for the Kurds.” Starting Wednesday, he is expected to go before the 11th criminal division in Istanbul to face a charge of particularly serious crimes. The famous Kurdish-expert has been charged with creating propaganda for the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which is banned in Turkey. The District Attorney’s Office is demanding a prison sentence of eight and a half years. "Beşikçi is, however, involved with the 15 million Kurds in Turkey on a purely scientific basis. To punish him for his work is completely arbitrary justice,” said Dr. Kamal Sido, consultant for the Middle East at the STP.
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July 26, 2010
The Tuareg, who continue to live in the Sahara, are suffering greatly from increasing terrorist acts and the consequences of the Anti-Terror campaign of the state security forces, stated the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) in Göttingen on Monday. "Ever since the North African terrorist organization ‘Al-Quida in Maghreb’ (AQMI) began kidnapping Europeans about once a month, foreign travelers have been avoiding the Sahara, which means fewer and fewer Tuareg are able to survive on tourism and handcrafts,” stated Ulrich Delius, consultant for Africa at the STP. "The collapse of tourism is life-threatening for the Tuareg nomads living in Nigeria and Mali. They are still suffering from a serious drought, and many of them have lost their herds.” For years many of the Tuareg have earned their living by offering vacationers their service as tourguides or by selling them handcrafts.
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July 22, 2010
This July, leading human rights attorneys in China are being denied the annual renewal of their licenses to practice law, stated the Society for Threatened people on Thursday. At least six prominant attorneys in Peking have been affected by these punative measures and are being forced to suspend their work. "The lawyers are being silenced because they willingly agreed to reprsent arrested Tibetans, Uigurs, and followers of the banned meditation movement Falun Gong,” said Ulrich Delius, the consultant for Asia at the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP). "This indiscriminate declaration of disbarment will deny any member of an ethnic or religious minority under persecution any kind of credible legal protection in the People’s Republic of China.”
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July 20, 2010
Exactly eleven years ago, the bloody persecution of the Falun Gong meditation movement began in China (07/20/1999). This Tuesday, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) is reminding the world about this tragedy and criticizing the European governments for ignoring the worst persecution of Chinese dissenters since the cultural revolution. "European econmic interests and Chinas growing economic importance have led to a double standard in European human rights policy that is humiliating,” said Ulrich Delius, the Asia consultant at the Society for Threatened Peoples. "Anyone who denounces the persecution of beliefs in Cuba or Iran should not remain quiet when it comes to China.”
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July 19, 2010
Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) is greatly concerned for the fate of 20 Mapuche Indian political prisoners in Chile. For the past week they have been on on indefinite hunger strike in prison establishments in Concepción and Temuco, protesting against unfair arrest and detention and politically-motivated charges. They are hoping that their hunger strike will also draw attention to the desperate plight of their people.
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July 17, 2010
Dear Minister,
As you are about to travel to Central Asia, we would like to thank you for your commitment to a resolution of the conflict in Kyrgyzstan and for promising generous humanitarian aid. At the same time we would like to ask you to provide significant political signals that will further the stabilisation of the situation in Kyrgyzstan.
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Foto : http://pillarofshame.com/
July 11, 2010
By gathering 16,744 shoes for the 8,372 victims of the massacre in Srebenica on July 11,1995, the "Center for Political Beauty” intends to remind the public of the genocidal crime committed by Serbian troops in the east-Bosnian city of Srebrenica.
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July 08, 2010
On Sunday 11 July 2010, the 15th anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica, Center for Political Beauty will assemble a mound of 16,744 shoes in front of the Brandenburg Gate in commemoration of the 8372 victims of the crime of genocide perpetrated by Serb forces in eastern Bosnia in 1995.
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June 21, 2010
There are currently more than 500,000 slaves in Mauritania. For this reason, the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker, GfbV) and the Anti-slavery movement IRA (Initiative pour la Résurgence du Mouvement Abolitioniste) are demanding that the decision to send development aid to Mauritania from the EU, which will be discussed in Brussels on the 22nd and 23rd of June, be contingent upon the willingness of the Mauritanian government to take a stand against slavery in its country.
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June 15, 2010
Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) has condemned as 'a disastrous mistake' the EU Foreign Ministers' decision yesterday to approve a closer relationship for Serbia with the EU.
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June 14, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV) appealed on Monday to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, to investigate immediately the the charge that Ethiopia has committed serious war crimes in the east of the country.
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June 11, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) warned on Friday of the dramatic consequences of a famine which is spreading among the pastoral tribes in the Sahel region. "75 percent of all cattle farmers in Chad are suffering from starvation”, said the STP Africa consultant, Ulrich Delius.
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June 10, 2010
Following the conviction and sentencing of seven of the Srebrenica murderers by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague today, Thursday, Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) is calling for increased international pressure on Serbia to hand over the fugitive senior war criminal Ratko Mladic for trial.
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June 06, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) has appealed to the temporary president Jens Böhrnsen and the Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle to speak out in their talks with Somalia's President, Sheik Sharif Ahmed, for better protection of the civilian population in the embattled country.
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June 04, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) is very concerned about the dramatic escalation of violence against people in public life and the church in Turkey. The latest reports, which have just reached the STP, state that the Turkish lawyer Hakan Karadag was found dead in his house in Istanbul today, Friday.
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May 31, 2010
Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) / Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV) accuses the government of Sudan of systematically refusing to cooperate in any way with the efforts of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to combat impunity in Darfur. The human rights organisation has forcefully condemned the decision to prevent a leading Darfuri human rights activist and two prominent political opponents of the Sudanese regime attending the ICC Review Conference opening in Kampala (Uganda) today, Monday 31 May.
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May 28, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) accused the government of Pakistan on Friday of sharing responsibility for the violence against the religious minority. "Pakistan's authorities treat the Ahmadis as "fair game” and have for years been whipping up the rejection of this religious community by the Sunni majority”, criticised the STP Asia consultant, Ulrich Delius.
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May 28, 2010
In the light of the summit meeting on Monday in Nice of the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, with 50 African heads of state the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) has sharply criticised France's Africa policies.
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May 27, 2010
It is "a black day” in the battle against impunity, said the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) on Thursday. "With their decision to send the heads of the UNMIS and UNAMID Peace Mission in Sudan to the inauguration ceremony of the Sudanese President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the United Nations have caused serious damage to the efforts for justice for the people in Darfur”, said the STP Africa consultant, Ulrich Delius.
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May 27, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) will present to the Conference of Ministers of the Interior in Hamburg today, Thursday, a declaration signed by holders of the Göttingen Peace Prize against the deportation of Roma from Kosovo.
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May 27, 2010
The series of murderous attacks on Mandaeans continues. As the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) learnt on Thursday, last Tuesday morning one of this small religious community was victim of such an attack.
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May 25, 2010
The Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft for bedrohte Völker GfbV) has accused the German Foreign Office with neglecting the dramatic situation in Somalia.
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