Lelio Basso International Foundation for the Rights and Liberation of Peoples
The Foundation was set up in the 1970s, following the experience of the Russell Tribunals I and II, when it became clear to Lelio Basso, both reporter and member of the jury, and to other experts from many countries, that the work should not be limited to verifying the facts and the authenticity of the witnesses, but that continuous historical-juridical research was essential to arrive at the causes of such cases of violations of human rights and to read in a new key the struggles of peoples for liberation.
The Foundation, which was formally constituted with the Declaration of the Rights of Peoples at Algiers on 4 july 1976, has been working since then on the basis of politico-cultural programmes (research, seminars, conferences, publications...) studying the juridical and historical, also economic, social and anthropological aspects of the legal-political formulations which substantiate the "Law for the Rights of Peoples": the purpose is to contribute to the elaboration of principles to regulate a new order of relations which aim to promote peace, in that they are no longer based on hegemony but on interdependence.
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