Society for Threatened Peoples (STP)

“The genocidal attacks by the Islamist regime in Damascus on the Kurdish areas in northeastern Syria continue. Tens of thousands of Kurds are fleeing. Entire cities and regions are surrounded and cut off from the outside world, so that no medicine, food, or fuel can be brought in,” reports Dr. Kamal Sido, Middle East consultant at the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP).

After troops of the new Islamist regime in Syria took control of large parts of northeastern Syria, the Kurds and other minorities living there are not the only ones facing a deadly threat. Yazidis in the neighboring Sinjar region (Shingal) in northwestern Iraq are also at risk, warns the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP).

According to the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), the EU-Mercosur Agreement, which is to be signed on Saturday (January 17), poses a threat to human rights and the livelihoods of indigenous communities.

To protest against the visit of Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa to Berlin, the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) and the Kurdish Community of Germany will hold a vigil in front of the Federal Chancellery in Berlin on Monday, January 19, 2026. It will take place from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) urgently appeals to the German government to disinvite Syrian ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa. He is scheduled to visit Berlin on January 19, 2026. “We urge you not to roll out the red carpet in Berlin for a war criminal who is responsible for the murder of innocent people in Syria,” the STP emphasizes in a letter to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) welcomes the Bolivian government’s decision to revise its controversial economic policy package and repeal the corresponding decree. The decision was preceded by weeks of protests by social organizations, trade unions, and indigenous actors led by the COB trade union federation.

The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) calls on the German government to condemn the atrocities committed against Kurds in Aleppo by the Syrian regime.

In an unprecedented move, a qualified majority of EU member states today approved the controversial trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur. Never before in European trade history has a trade agreement been adopted by the EU Council without the approval of such large countries as France or Poland. This approach is likely to further fuel anti-European sentiment, especially since this is a highly controversial agreement. For 25 years, it has been met with resistance from civil society groups, farmers’ associations, and trade unions.

Since yesterday, Wednesday, the Islamist regime in Damascus has been attacking two districts of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. This is reported by the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP), citing local sources. According to these sources, the districts of Sheikh Maksud and Ashafiye are being shelled with heavy artillery, tanks, rocket launchers, and combat drones. Meanwhile, 300 houses in these Kurdish-inhabited neighborhoods of Aleppo have been destroyed.