Society for Threatened Peoples
| Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) |
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| purpose | Human rights organization |
| Chair: | Jan Diedrichsen |
| Establishment date: | 1970 |
| Seat : | Goettingen |
| Website: | www.gfbv.de |
The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) is an internationally active non-governmental organization (NGO) that advocates the protection of minorities around the world, especially the rights of religious , linguistic and ethnic minorities . The association opposes any attempt to destroy a people, an ethnic or religious community or minority, their security, their life, their right to property and development, religion and their linguistic and cultural identity. The GfbV stands up for human rights by providing peoples, ethnic and religious communities and minorities who are threatened in this way - in particular from genocide , ethnocide and displacement - through the procurement and dissemination of reliable information, through lobbying , political campaigns and conflict prevention initiatives as well as helping refugees of threatened peoples.
The originally purely German organization is represented by independent sections in Austria , Switzerland , South Tyrol / Italy , Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq and has a representative in London and Luxembourg . They are all united in the GfbV International based in Berlin .
history
The GfbV emerged in 1970 from the Hamburg “Aktion Biafra-Hilfe”, which was founded by Tilman Zülch and Klaus Guercke in June 1968 during the Biafra war to draw the world's attention to the events in Biafra and to put a stop to the genocide there territories. The later French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and the later human rights representative of the Council of Europe Thomas Hammarberg participated in this initiative . In 1978 the head office was relocated from Hamburg to Göttingen. Tilman Zülch was General Secretary of the STP until March 2017; Since then, the longtime Africa and Asia expert Ulrich Delius has been leading the political work of the STP.
Since 1993 the STP has had consultant status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations . The STP is also a member organization of the Committee for a Democratic UN. Since January 2005 she has participating status at the Council of Europe .
Prominent supporters, some of whom also belonged to their advisory board, included the philosopher Ernst Bloch , the futurologist Robert Jungk , the theologian Helmut Gollwitzer , the writer Günter Grass , the writer Luise Rinser , the writer Carl Amery and the human rights activist Rupert Neudeck , the philosopher Ernst Tugendhat and the politician Freimut Duve .
The lawyer and journalist Claus Peter Volkmann alias Peter Grubbe was also a member of the advisory board until his Nazi past became public in 1995.
The GfbV Germany has been using the donation seal issued by the German Central Institute for Social Issues since 2007 .
Organization and areas of work
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The GfbV is a minority rights organization. According to the German Central Institute for Social Issues, the society had more than 5600 members in 2011. The activities of the German organization are mainly coordinated from the federal office in Göttingen . Regional groups in the German cities of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Münster and Nuremberg support the work. The GfbV publishes press releases, organizes demonstrations and rallies and a. Appeals for donations through postcard campaigns.
Since the human rights organization was founded, one focus of human rights work has been on the African continent, where it is not represented by a section. Since the wars in Yugoslavia, the STP has been disproportionately active in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo . In Kosovo, she pays a team that, under the leadership of human rights activist Paul Polansky, campaigns for the interests of the Roma minority . In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the survivors of the Srebrenica massacre receive particular support. Indigenous peoples are another focus . The voluntary STP human rights activist Renate Domnick organized the first major tour of Europe for indigenous delegates from 16 American states in 1977/78 . In the Middle East, the Kurds in particular play an important role for the STP ; This is expressed in the GfbV section founded in 2010 in the Kurdish northern part of Iraq .
Political goals and strategies
The focus is on the topics of genocide , displacement , racism and all types of oppression of minorities as well as the deportation of refugees to their countries of origin. In addition to cultural and religious groups such as Falun Gong in China or Christian minorities in Iran, the STP supports ethnic groups such as the Roma or the Chechens in the narrower sense .
The organization has often advocated that the eviction of people be condemned as injustice even if the victims belong to the people who waged war or some other serious violation of international law. In this context, the association propagates a “ right to a home ” and in 2000 demanded its inclusion in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union . The GfbV also advocated a center against evictions . That is why it is sharply criticized by parts of the political left .
Opposing positions
The GfbV was accused of unilaterally taking sides with the Bosniak side during the Bosnian war and "supporting the political and military propaganda goals of the government in Sarajevo".
See also
literature
- 40 years of society for threatened peoples. Special issue of the magazine "Threatened Völker (formerly pogrom)", No. 251, 6/2008, ISSN 0720-5058 (self-presentation of the GfbV)
- Tilman Zülch: “We don't want any ideological blinkers” The society for threatened peoples - shaped by the spirit of the youth movement . in: The ring is closed, the evening wind blows . vvb, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-942476-07-2 .
Web links
- Website of the GfbV Germany and International - Sections Austria , Switzerland and Italy / South Tyrol
Individual evidence
- ^ The "Society for Threatened Peoples". STP, accessed on November 5, 2017 .
- ^ Society for Threatened Peoples eV DZI - German Central Institute for Social Issues, accessed on November 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Federal Board. Society for Threatened Peoples, accessed November 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Andreas Fuhrmann: STP General Secretary Tilman Zülch stops. In: Göttinger Tageblatt of March 27, 2017
- ↑ Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff: The administrator of the slaughterhouse German double life: How a man betrayed himself and his environment for 50 years, in: The time of October 13, 1995, accessed on July 15, 2014
- ^ Society for Threatened Peoples eV, on the DZI website
- ^ German Central Institute for Social Issues, overview of the Society for Threatened Peoples, [1]
- ^ Matthias Brunner, Interference for minorities all over the world ( Memento from June 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Lausitzer Rundschau December 6, 2008
- ↑ Examples: The Really Forgotten, Die Zeit, 18/1995 (Nuba in North Sudan), Magazine for Church and Culture, November 28, 2008 (Christian Assyrians in Syria and Jordan)
- ↑ Example: Göttinger Tageblatt July 1, 2009. Göttingen: Family with four children should be deported to Kosovo after 17 years
- ^ Society for Threatened Peoples: For the protection of minorities in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Bolzano, April 21, 2000 .
- ↑ Von Eck: Steinbach: Center against expulsions until 2007. Die Welt, August 6, 2002 .
- ↑ www.zgv.de: Society for Threatened Peoples supports the Center against Expulsions in Berlin (with press release from the GfbV) ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Example: Ralf Fischer: German Victims - The Society for Threatened Peoples relies on ethnic ideology. Information center 3. welt - iz3w, No. 274 ( Memento of the original from December 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mira Beham: War Drums. Media, war and politics. P. 183ff., Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, Munich 1996, quoted from: Martin Löffelholz: War as a media event II: Crisis communication in the 21st century, p. 94f., VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2004 Google Books
