Rubrik: Erklärung

The tragedy of Tibet, as is well known, stems from more than 40 years of military occupation and colonial rule by the People’s Republic of China. This undeniable fact must form part of any discussion of Tibet since it embodies the sad experience of the six million-strong Tibetan people. It is the continuing inhuman suffering of the Tibetan people that has led our organisation to raise the human rights situation in Tibet within the human rights forums of the United Nations.

The armed confrontation between the government’s security forces and the Tamils in the North and East of the country has claimed since 1983 more than 55.000 lives (90 % of them civilians), over 700 000 internally displaced persons and close to half a million expatriates: almost all of the victims are Tamils. The conflict…

The Society for Threatened Peoples is concerned about the violation of the Social, Economic and Cultural Rights of the Tamils in Sri Lanka. These violations can be traced to the long-standing policies of successive governments which have eventually led to the outbreak of armed conflict. Whoever…

The question of the right of development is not only an issue of individual economic well-being but also that of collective development. This is particularily true for the different ethnic minorities of Southern Sudan. For more than 30 years they lived in an area of civil war, hunger and genocide. Their land…

Since 1994 Ethiopians have had a democratic constitution that guarantees their country’s citizens full civil and human rights. Despite this constitution, which many regard as exemplary, human rights violations have increased in number and severity. The victims have in particular been members of the Oromo community, numbering 25 million and…

The Society for Threatened Peoples wishes to bring the case of the arbitrary detention and denial of proper medical treatment to Leonard Peltier to the attention of the Commission on Human Rights. Leonard Peltier, a Lakota-Chippewa known worldwide as a defender of the traditional, cultural, civil, and human rights of Native Peoples, is currently incarcerated…

The Society for Threatened Peoples calls on the international community to urge the Cambodian government to fully cooperate with the United Nations (UN) in establishing a joint tribunal to try Khmer Rouge leaders for the death of 1,7 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979. The negotiations are in a deadlock situation…

Ever since the rise of the New Order regime 35 years ago, many minorities in Indonesia have to face racism and discrimination of Indonesia. This is achieved through many pieces of legislation. Some of them are specifically targeted at the Chinese ethnic minority.

Society for Threatened Peoples (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker/GfbV) is taking advantage of the halfway stage in the UN Decade for Indigenous Peoples, reached in December, to urge the rapid adoption without further modification of the existing draft text of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Discussion of the rights of aboriginal peoples…