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 CURRENT PRESS RELEASE 
Appeal to the Austrian Federal Government, Political Parties and Parlamentarians:
Please help Jovan Mirilo obtain political asylum!
(Press Release)
February 05, 2010
Dear Sir/Madam,

Our international human rights organisation is dismayed to learn of the rejection of an application for politcal asylum by Jovan Mirilo, the man whose courage provided the world with the evidence that mass murder had been committed at Srebrenica.
January 29, 2010

Spain wants to remove EU sanctions against China
EU arms embargo against China must remain in force!

The Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) has appealed to the Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle to speak out for the maintenance of the EU arms embargo against China.
Moral consequences of Auschwitz:
Contingent solution for 10,000 Roma refugees living amongst us!
(Press Release)
January 28, 2010

Moral consequences of Auschwitz: The Society for Threatened Peoples calls for a contingent solution for 10,000 Roma living amongst us!

January 27, 2010

The Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) has accused the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai of committing massive infringements of human rights. "All further assistance for the Afghan government must be made dependent on an improvement of the human rights situation”, said the STP Afghanistan expert, Tillmann Schmalzried.
January 25, 2010

The Committee on Internal Affairs and the Human Rights Committee of the German Parliament meet on Wednesday, 27th January 2010, to confer on deportations to Syria. The Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) is now calling on the members of the Committees to speak out against further deportations to the Arab Republic of Syria.
January 25, 2010

The Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) has one day before the presidential elections called for an independent international investigation into the war crimes committed by the army of Sri Lanka and the rebel Tamil Tigers between January and May 2008.
Urgent appeal to the government of the province of Lower Saxony :
No deportation into the icy Kosovo winter!
(Press Release)
January 11, 2010

"No deportation into the icy Kosovo winter! People sent back will be met with life-threatening cold, illnesses and misery!” With this dramatic appeal the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) wrote today to the Minister of the Interior, Uwe Schünemann, and Prime Minister, Christian Wulff. Forcing refugees and their families with small children, pregnant women or elderly people to return now in these extreme conditions is against all precepts of Christian brotherly love and mercy.
January 11, 2010
Dear Minister,

You have described Bosnia and Herzegovina as a potential breeding-ground for terrorist recruits to Al-Qu'aeda, the notorious fundamentalist organisation.
In Berlin as well - worldwide campaign for peace in Sudan
Peace process for South Sudan in danger – Protect human rights – Prevent a new war!
(Press Release)

  
January 07, 2010
The fifth anniversary of the peace agreement between North and South Sudan is coming (09.01.) and Amnesty International (AI) and the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) have issued a warning on a possible collapse of the peace process in South Sudan.

  
November 07, 2010

Following the fatal attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) urgently begged Angela Merkel on Thursday to speak out to the Egyptian government for protection for Christians.
Open letter to Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle at present in Turkey through the German Embassy in Ankara and the German General Consulate in Istanbul
Our country has a responsibility to victims of expulsion – in Turkey as well, Mr Westerwelle!
(Press Release)
January 07, 2010

Dear Mr Westerwelle,

You are today in Turkey accompanied by many managers and you will be visiting the Gulf states .

On your visits to Istanbul and Ankara you will also be confronted with expulsion and crimes of expulsion. With all your thoughts on matters of commercial interest you should not forget these victims, two million citizens of Kurdish ethnicity.
January 05, 2010

For months the armed violence in South Sudan has been escalating and there are also no signs of a peace solution in Darfur in western Sudan.
War on terror is being extended in Somalia
Civilian population in Somalia is threatened by more starvation
(Press Release)
January 05, 2010

The Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) gave warning on Tuesday that the appalling famine in Somalia is likely to become more acute.
No protection for refugees in South-East Asia
Bangladesh : 9000 Moslem refugees from Burma threatened with deportation
(Press Release)
December 30, 2009

The Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) warned on Wednesday that 9,000 Moslem Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh are likely to be deported to their home country of Burma .
Westerwelle must intervene on behalf of Hmong refugees
The Hmong refugees from Laos must not be deported!
(Press Release)
December 28, 2009

Dear Mr. Westerwelle,

The government of Thailand , which has close bonds of friendship with Germany , has begun to deport some 4,000 refugees of the indigenous tribe of the Hmong to Laos .
December 23, 2009

Society for Threatened Peoples welcomes the first step in abolishing the apartheid system (established in Dayton) in Bosnia and Herzegovina by the European Court of Human Rights.
Christmas 2009 – Appeal to the German Ministers of the Interior:
Stop playing with the fate of Christian refugees from Syria!
(Press Release)
December 23, 2009

Two days before Christmas the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) has appealed to the German Ministers of the Interior to stop playing with the lives and future of the Christian refugees from Syria and other refugees from this country who have been persecuted on account of their religious beliefs.
China ´s most prominent prisoner is threatened with 15 years imprisonment:
Peking is trying to stifle the democracy movement with an unjust trial - Release Liu Xiaobo!
(Press Release)
December 22, 2009

The Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) has charged China with trying to stifle the democracy movement with an unjust trial which begins tomorrow against Liu Xiaobo.
Copenhagen Climate Summit (07 – 18.12.2009)
Siberian native peoples complain: Our affairs are being ignored in Copenhagen!
(Press Release)
December 16, 2009

The native peoples of Siberia feel left out at the Climate Summit in Copenhagen. This was reported on Wednesday by the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV), which is in constant contact with some of these indigenous groups.

  
December 15, 2009

It is with great concern about the well-being of the Syrian Kurdish human rights worker and lawyer Mustafa Ismail that the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) has written today to the foreign ministries of the democratically ruled states which have embassies in Syria.
Appeal to Polish government:
Do not criminalise Chechnyan refugees on German-Polish border!
(Press Release)
December 16, 2009

With the urgent appeal not to criminalise the approximately 200 Chechnyan refugees who were stopped in a train at the German-Polish border on Tuesday the Society for Threatened Peoples STP (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfbV) has written to the Polish government in Warsaw.
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