Society For Threatened Peoples
Society for Threatened Peoples International STPI (German: Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker-International, GfbV-International) is an international NGO and human rights organization with its headquarters in Göttingen, Germany. It claims 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 advisory status at the United Nations, participatory status with the Council of Europe and has branches in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Iraqi Kurdistan.
The Secretary General of the Society for Threatened Peoples International (STPI) and Society for Threatened Peoples-Germany (STP) is Tilman Zülch. who was in 2010 accused, and in 2011 charged, for embezzlement of the organizations assets and since 2012 investigated by German state prosecutor. At the organizations annuel meeting in November 2011, the two former board members who had started the public prosecutors' investigations were ousted and a new board of directors was elected, which than waived the previous charges. Two former board members pressed charges again in 2013, as individual persons, and the investigation of embezzlement of donation moneys against the German branch and headquarters of the international organization continues. Since February 11, 2013, the Society for Threatened Peoples International's branch in Switzerland filed a criminal complaint against a suspect for substantial embezzlement of the organizations assets. State prosecutors of Bern opened a criminal case against this person to investigate the allegations for misappropriation of the organisations assets.
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