Society for Threatened Peoples
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Founded | 1970 |
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Founder | Tilman Zülch |
Type | Non-governmental organization |
Focus | Religious and ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples |
Location |
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Area served | Germany, Bosnia, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Iraq |
Website | http://www.gfbv.de/index.php?change_lang=english |
The Society for Threatened Peoples International STPI (
The Secretary General of the Society for Threatened Peoples International (STPI) and Society for Threatened Peoples-Germany (STP) is Tilman Zülch.[1] The society awards the Victor Gollancz Prize. The Society for Threatened Peoples has a strong focus on Eastern Europe and other parts of Eurasia, including Russia and the Balkans, but it also works with countries in Africa and the Middle East.
History
The Society for Threatened Peoples Germany emerged in 1970 from the Hamburg-based "Aktion Biafra-Hilfe." Aktion Biafra-Hilfe was founded in June 1968 by
In 1978 the headquarters of the Society for Threatened Peoples Germany moved from Hamburg to Göttingen.
Since 1993 the STP has
Organization and areas of work
The STPI is one of several European minority rights organizations. In December 2011, the organization had 5774 members and 675 sponsors, most of whom are based in Germany. The organization's activities are coordinated in Göttingen. Regional groups support the work of the STP-Germany in a few German cities, including Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Münster and Nuremberg. The STPI publishes press releases, organizes public demonstrations, arranges post card fund raising campaigns, prepares reports for court hearings,[citation needed] produces educational materials for teachers,[citation needed] and publishes the journal "Pogrom", which is a source of information about the situation of ethnic and religious minorities.
Since its founding, a main focus of the human rights work of the STP, has been the African continent;[
Prominent supporters of STP-Germany include: the writer and futurologist Robert Jungk,[citation needed], the author Günter Grass,[citation needed] former German chancellor Willy Brandt,[citation needed] current President of East Timor José Ramos-Horta, and Marek Edelman a leader in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.[2]
Political goals and strategies
The Society for Threatened Peoples places the fight against
The Society for Threatened Peoples has always maintained that
The Society for Threatened Peoples has in special situations supported military interventions. The society supported the NATO intervention in the Kosovo War in 1999. In 2006 the Society for Threatened Peoples supported the protection of elections in the Congo by the German military.
References
- "Society for Threatened Peoples" in Lawson, Edward, Encyclopedia of Human Rights, New York : Taylor & Francis, 1991. ISBN 978-0-8002-8003-1
- ^ Gfbv.de Archived 7 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker". Gfbv.de. Archived from the original on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ^ "Steinbach: Zentrum gegen Vertreibungen bis 2007". Welt.de. 23 November 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2013.