The following is a working library of People’s Tribunals, Citizens Assemblies, Independent People’s Commissions, and other types of grassroots Panels that are in progress or have been completed and have issued reports. If you would like to add a PT to this space please contact us here.[1]
Peoples Tribunals/Citizens’ Assemblies
Australian Tribunal into the Human Rights Impacts of Unconventional Gas
Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation
- Russell Tribunal on Human Rights in Psychiatry and here
- Russell Tribunal on Kashmir
- Russell Tribunal on Palestine
- Russell Tribunal on the Rights of Indians of the Americas
Biak Massacre Citizens Tribunal
China Tribunal (focused on forced organ harvesting)
Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss (Ireland)
Farmworkers Tribunal (US)
Health Tribunal (focused on mining activities)
Independent People’s Tribunal on Enforced Disappearances and Extra Judicial Killings in Amritsar
Independent People’s Tribunal on Mumbai’s Coast Road
Independent People’s Tribunal on the World Bank Group in India
Indian People’s Human Rights Tribunal on the Chintapalli Arson Case
India People’s Tribunal Forest Rights Act
International Monsanto Tribunal
International Peoples Tribunal (focused on Philippines)
International Peoples’ Tribunal of Conscience (focusing on Vietnamese victims of agent orange)
International People’s Tribunal on Crimes against Humanity in Indonesia 1965
International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian- Administered Kashmir
International Peoples Tribunal on the Nuclear Powers and Destruction of Human Civilisation
International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism (focusing on economic sanctions)
International People’s Tribunal on the World Bank Group in India
International Rights of Nature Tribunal
International Tribunal of Conscience of Peoples in Movement
International Tribunal on Katrina and Rita
Oxford Citizens Assembly on Climate Change
People’s Commission to Decriminalize Maryland
People’s Health Tribunal (People of Africa v. Shell Oil)
People’s Tribunal on the Algiers Motel Killings
People’s Tribunal’s on the Contested Citizenship in Assam
People’s Tribunal on Innocent Acquitted
People’s Tribunal on the Judicial Assault on Civil Liberties (India)
People’s Tribunal on the Murder of Journalists
People’s Tribunal on War Crimes by South Korean Troops during the Vietnam War
Permanent Peoples’ Tribunals by Lelio Basso International Foundation (links to decisions from PPT tribunals can also be found at this website)
- PPT Agrochemical Transnational Corporations
- PPT Armenian Genocide
- PPT Colombia: Oil Companies
- PPT Colombia: Biodiversity Humanitarian Zone, Cacarica
- PPT Colombia: Political Genocide, Impunity and Crimes Against Peace in Colombia
- PPT on Corporate Human Rights Violations and Peoples Access to Justice
- PPT on the Environmental and Territorial rights of the Traditional Peoples and peoples of the Cerrado
- PPT Mexico: Free Trade, violence, impunity and people’s rights
- PPT The European Union and Transnational Corporations in Latin America: Policies, Instruments and Actors Complicit in Violations of the People’s Rights
- PPT on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change
- PPT on Living Wage for Workers in the Garment Industry
- PPT on Myanmar
- PPT on Pandemic and Authoritarianism
- PPT Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power
- PPT Southern African Tribunal on Transactional Corporations
- PPT Sri Lanka, session II, session III
- PPT on State Crimes Alleged Committed in Myanmar against the Rohingyas, Kachins, and Other Groups
- PPT Turkey and Kurds
- PPT Violations with Impunity of the Human Rights of Migrant and Refugee Peoples
The Court of the Citizens of the World
The Freedom Side: The People’s Tribunal and Congress
The People’s Tribunal (focused on race and equality)
The People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime
The People’s Tribunal on the Iraq War
The Peoples Tribunal of Ireland
The People’s Tribunal on Malaysia’s 13th General Elections
The United Kingdom Child Sex Abuse Peoples Tribunal
Tribal Tribunal for Human Rights (US, Texas)
UFFC People’s Tribunal on Police Killings
World Courts of Women (focusing on poverty and human rights)
World Court of Women (focusing on US War crimes)
Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal for the Trial of Japan’s Sexual Slavery
Women’s Tribunals by Feminist Task Force
Women’s Tribunal Malaysia 2021
Resources
Books
(2002) International Citizens Tribunals (Palgrave)
(2017) Peoples Tribunals and International Law (Cambridge)
(2019) Peoples Tribunals, Human Rights and the Law (Routledge)
(2020) The International People’s Tribunal for 1965 and the Indonesian Genocide (Routledge)
Documentaries/Videos
National Register of Citizens (NRC) – Overview of the People’s Tribunal (India)
People’s International Tribunal Hawai’i
Power of People’s Tribunal: An International Seminar
The United Kingdom Child Sex Abuse People’ Tribunal
Podcasts
FRC: A Conversation with Dr. Gianni Tognoni
FRC: A Conversation with David Kilgour
People’s Tribunals, Do they achieve anything?
People’s Tribunals, Human Rights and the Law
[1] This library has been created for research purposes only. A Contrario ICL has found this information based on public searches and cannot verify the accuracy of the information contained in these reports. A Contrario ICL does not endorse the contents in these reports. For any follow up questions or comments, please directly contact the authors of the report.
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