Rubrik: Erklärung

The term Mapuche means „People of the Earth“. The Mapuche are the largest aboriginal group in Chile. They originally occupied an area stretching from the Maule region to the Island of Chiloé. According to the 1992 census 928,060 people over 14 years old identified themselves as Mapuche. However only approximately 15 % still live in what remains of their historical homeland; today most of the Mapuche (around 60 %) live in towns, three-quarters of them in the capital…

Since 1990 over two million children have been killed in armed conflicts worldwide. During 1999 Society for Threatened Peoples (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker/GfbV) has observed with great concern how children in East Timor, the Sudan and Sri Lanka…

Society for Threatened Peoples would to bring the case of Leonard Peltier to your attention, a world recognized Human Rights and Indigenous Rights Defender – Mr. Peltier, a Lakota-Anishinabe and life long advocate of traditional, cultural, civil, and human rights for Native Peoples, is inmate at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary in the United States for a crime he obviously did not commit. Therefore, he has become a world-known symbol of injustice…

In spite of the diminished influence of Dr. Hassan el-Turabi, the prominent radical Islamic ideologue, the human rights situation in Sudan has deteriorated in recent years. The incessant large-scale bombing of civilian targets…

A few days after the arrest of the ex-president of Serbia and Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milosevic, the Society for Threatened Peoples is mindful of the fate of 30,000 Muslim Bosnian women held in Serbian rape camps for months on end in 1992. In February 2001 Serbian war criminals were sentenced…

The Society for Threatened Peoples is exceptionally concerned at the increase in arbitrary detentions, torture and state oppression in the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya (West Papua). In unfair trials held in…

The prospective accession of the Republic of Cyprus to membership of the European Community has revived controversy over the status of the island state. The Society for Threatened Peoples accuses the government of Turkey, in continuing disregard of a series of United Nations Resolutions, of maintaining the military occupation of one third of the territory of its small European neighbour, of consolidating the ethnic cleansing commenced in 1974, and through the settlement…

The Society for Threatened Peoples (Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker / GfbV) is extremely concerned at the current human rights situation in the Israeli-occupied areas of the West Bank of the Jordan and the Gaza Strip and the autonomous areas under Palestinian rule.
Between 29 September 2000 and 17 March 2001 329 Palestinians were killed. The great majority of these (282)…

The Society for Threatened Peoples International wishes to bring the alarming situation of indigenous peoples in the State of Sarawak in Malaysia to the attention of the Commission on Human Rights. We are very much concerned about the recent announcement of the Government of Malaysia to revive the huge Bakun hydroelectric-dam project. The controversial project…