Society for Threatened Peoples

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The Society for Threatened Peoples (in German: Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker (GfbV)) is a human rights organisation based in Göttingen, Germany. It attempts to create awareness of and protct minority peoples around the world who are threatened by opressive 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.