Society for Threatened Peoples
- Society for Threatened Peoples
The Society for Threatened Peoples ( _de. Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker, GfbV) is a human rights organisation based in Göttingen, Germany. It attempts to create awareness of and protect minority peoples around the world who are threatened by oppressive governments. The group states on its website that it "campaigns against all forms of genocide and ethnocide". It has sections and offices in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile and Iraqi Kurdistan.
Reference
*"Society for Threatened Peoples" in Lawson, Edward, "Encyclopedia of Human Rights", New York : Taylor & Francis, 1991. ISBN 9780800280031
External links
* [http://www.gfbv.de/index.php?change_lang=english Society for Threatened Peoples website]
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