Permanent Peoples' Tribunal - TPP
The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal - PTP - is a civil society body that originated in 1979 at the international level in order to investigate and bring to trial before civil society cases of violation of human rights, impunity, genocide and crimes against humanity. The Court has had multiple sessions to judge situations associated with these problems in different countries. Various social organizations in Colombia requested the Court in 2005, based on a list of accusations, to investigate and prosecute situations of irrational extraction of natural resources, exploitation of workers and alliances with paramilitaries, mainly by multinational companies. The Court held six hearings in the country during 2006 and 2008, taking into account the documentation for the allegations and the testimony of the witnesses who were present. The Court's ruling was published, presented and disseminated in 2008, and notification was sent to the President of the Republic and to the presidents of the High Courts and judicial entities of the country.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- not backed by constitution nor legislation, nor by any governmental policy or program
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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