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August 01, 2001
If US President George W Bush gets his way, the herds of caribou deer vital for the survival of the native Gwich'in will be forced to give way to oil-drilling squads in the area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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September 04, 2007
Society for Threatened Peoples is severely concerned about the fate of two Iranian-Kurdish journalists who have been sentenced to death. Adnan Hassanpur (27) and Hiwa Botimar (29) have consumed nothing but water since the middle of July 2007 and are very weak.
Please get active and support our online-appeal directed to the Iranian Government to release the two journalists.
online-appeal
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Who is still traveling to the Alps on totally overcrowded ski runs? Even the former snow paradise Aspen in Colorado is not trendy anymore. The future of winter sports lies in the untouched valleys of British Columbia and can be used at best with Heliskiing. That’s what the travel agencies tell at least, such as DerTour, Tui, Marlboro Tours, Sturmböck Club and the ADAC Magazine Ski 2001 thinks so too.
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 Von Folter gezeichnet: Ein Falun-Gong-Anhänger
In no other country in the world are so many people subjected to bestial forms of torture, detained in labour camps and executed. Nowhere else in the world are so many people denied free access to information through the Internet and other media.
And nowhere else are ethnic and religious minorities the target of such brutal oppression.
NOW is our chance to make China get its act together!
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June 23, 2010
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was invited by Canada’s Head of Government Stephen Harper to take part in the G-20 summit meeting of the world’s most important industrial and newly-industrialised countries at the end of June 2010 in Toronto. The invitation is a great honour for Ethiopia’s autocratic ruler, who not only suppressed the opposition parties during the parliamentary elections in May 2010, but whose army has been accused of committing war crimes. Just in the previous four weeks, In Ogaden in the east of the country, more than 70 unarmed civilians are alleged to have been shot by Ethiopian soldiers. Please demand that the Canadian Prime Minister finds out the facts about this accusation before the arrival of Zenawi. War criminals should have no place around the table of the most important state leaders of the world.
Link for the On-line appeal 
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We, the Indigenous Peoples from various regions of the world, have come to Seattle to express our great concern over how the World Trade Organization is destroying Mother Earth and the cultural and biological diversity of which we are a part.
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Every month 15.000 people die in the West of the Sudan. "It is hell on earth” say international helpers. At least every second village has been systematically destroyed, wells have been poisoned and village inhabitants raped or driven out. Up to 400.000 people have already fallen victim to massacres, hunger and illnesses since 2003. The black African population has been driven
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A handshake between the German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and the Russian President Vladimir Putin – this is the picture in the German daily press following the Russo-German economic conference in April 2005. Broad smiles on the faces of the two statesmen as a result of the successful conclusion of the negotiations between the German concerns Eon and Wintershall with the gas monopolist Gazprom and others. In future the energy companies will be more
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GfbV correspondent Ulrich Delius at the GfbV demonstration for the visit of the Chinese state president Hu Jiantao in November in Berlin
No country in the world forbids so many people free access to the internet as the People’s Republic of China .For China’s power elite fears freedom of thought. Already more than 104 million Chinese use the worldwide web to keep themselves informed. However they do not have more access to politically independent news than in the state controlled TV. It is in vain for them to look, even with western internet providers like Google, for information on "Dalai Lama”, "Democracy”, "Taiwan”,
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Chechnyan mother with her child who has been killed
"They stuck needles and burning nails under my fingernails, tortured me with electric shocks, hung me up on the wire door, handcuffed by the hands and feet. My skin was cut with pieces of glass. They broke out my teeth and broke my ribs. They came twice or three times a day. With their boots they broke my toenails. I could not walk for days, not even after I had been bought free from the filtration camp” writes Ahmed Magomadov. The Chechnyan refugee is being cared for by the GfbV in Germany.
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January 22, 2010
On Tuesday, 26th January, from 9 a.m. outside the Olympiahalle in the Olympia Park, Munich, near the east entrance at the north end of the Olympia Swimming Pool.
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January 06, 2010
"We do not want asylum in Germany, but to stay in our homeland. For this we need support from Europe.” Clearly and precisely Khaled Mahmud, Chairperson of the Shabak Committee in North Iraq, directed his wish at the German politicians.
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September 24, 2009
On September 24th, 2009, Mir Tahsin Said Beg, the spiritual and secular leader of the worldwide some 800,000Yezidi, visited the international secretariat of "Society of Threatened Peoples” (GfbV) in Göttingen.. After he met with the General Secretary Tilman Zülch and the Near-East consultant Dr. Kamal Sido, a press conference took place and he also met with Yezidi from the region and their friends.
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May 2007
Today already the survival of many indigenous communities is acutely threatened by the climate change. No state and no government take their side. So we want to give them a voice, for they urgently need a lobby! On a new action platform, which is to be built up in the next few months, you will regularly find information and appeals on the subject of climate change and indigenous people.
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Palm-oil factory in western papua - Photo: Krisitne Neubauer
May 2007
Burning forests, smouldering tree-stumps, heavy bulldozers to prepare the scorched land for the oil plantations… Where a short time ago Papua tribes lived in harmony with nature, today oil-palm plantations are being laid out. They are seen as ecologically "particularly valuable”, are being subsidised by the state and are to be used as providers of raw materials for combined heating and power stations to quieten our climate consciences. However for the native inhabitants of the west of the island of New Guinea they mean extinction.
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"Today all Mapuche are terrorists, unless we can argue the converse. This is the new justice”, says the farmer Victor Ancalaf Llaupe bitterly. On January 2nd, 2004, the Mapuche Indian was sentenced to 10 years in prison for ‘terrorist activity’. As he filed an appeal, the sentence was reduced to 5 years and one day. The 37-year-old father of five children had founded a Mapuche civil rights movement in Chile in 1997. Back then he was arrested on several occasions and accused of timber theft. In addition to that, he was accused of having abducted a minister and
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February 06, 2007
On 9th January the 70-year old Kuretê Lopez of the tribe of the Kaiowá Guarani was killed when a group of farmers and armed men drove the Guarani by force from their land in the federal state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
Help to clear up the murder of Kuretê Lopez and help the Kaiowá Guarani to get their land back!
To the online appeal |>
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Photograph: Erling Söderström
For the Tibetans the time is five to twelve. Their Buddhist culture, which is thousands of years old, is being threatened with extinction as Chinese settlers are planting an ever stronger stamp with their own culture. Every week several thousand settle down in Tibet. Lured by the promises of the Chinese government these uninvited newcomers are settling above all in the towns. There the 7.5 million
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