Organizing coalition and petition

Three organizations initially joined together as a coalition to submit a petition to the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (see petition here) requesting that the court hear this case on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change. The court later requested a full list of steering group members and of the attorneys and experts who testified. The initiating organizations were:

• The Global Network for the Study of Human Rights and the Environment
  Anna Grear, Director
  Cardiff Law School
  Museum Avenue
  Cardiff, S Glam CF10 3AX
  United Kingdom
• Environment and Human Rights Advisory
  Tom Kerns, Director
  PO Box 907
  Yachats, OR 97498
  USA
• Human Rights Consortium
  Damien Short, Director
  School of Advanced Study
  University of London
  Senate House
  Malet Street
  London WC1E 7HU
  United Kingdom

 

• The Spring Creek Project and The Master of Arts in Environmental Arts and Humanities initiative (both at Oregon State University) served in the year prior to the Tribunal, along with the PPT Steering Group, as essential co-organizers providing key planning, technical, artistic and promotional support.

 

• The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, Gianni Tognoni, MD, Secretary General, selected the panel of ten judges to conduct the Tribunal and hear the cases presented by attorneys and others. The PPT reviewed all submitted written and oral testimony, deliberated, and issued its final Advisory Opinion on April 12, 2019. The Opinion is available here.

Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Headquarters
Fondazione Lelio Basso Sezione Internazionale
Via della Dogana Vecchia
5 – 00186 Rome, Italy

• Zoom.us donated a year’s subscription to its conferencing software and technical support for planning and conducting the plenary Sessions online and for the judges to use in their deliberations in the months following.