Papuan Voices is a video-advocacy initiative assisting West Papuan communities to tell their stories. It challenges common misconceptions about this troubled territory and builds local storytellers in a region where foreign journalists are banned.
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The 6th Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (HRAFF) has announced the full program of films, art and forums on offer at the 2013 festival. The Festival opens in Melbourne on 9 May and then tours nationally to Sydney, Canberra, Perth, Brisbane and Alice Springs.
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The Philippine A. Brown Company, Inc. is engaged in the business of oil palm plantation development and milling. In 2010, the company started planting oil palm on 520 hectares of public land claimed by the Higaonon indigenous people.
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Land grabbing is characterized by the acquisition of vast areas of land in countries of Africa, Latin America and Asia for a variety of different uses, including large-scale monoculture plantations, mining, tourism, hydroelectric power plants and food production for export, among others, by companies, investment funds and financial markets in general (see WRM Bulletin Nº 177). This has wide implications on communitie
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The current government of Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, is planning to build 12 hydroelectric dams which would displace tens of thousands of people and flood large tracts of tropical rainforest. Billed as clean energy, hydroelectric dams in tropical countries have devastating impacts on our climate because of the greenhouse gases released from the mass of rotting vegetation that comes with flood
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The 6th Human Rights Arts & Film Festival (HRAFF) has announced the full program of films, art and forums on offer at the 2013 festival. The Festival opens in Melbourne on 9 May and then tours nationally to Sydney, Canberra, Perth, Brisbane and Alice Springs.
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Engage Media and Change.org are hosting a lunch of conversation and ideas at Kedai Tjikini about creating and campaigning for change in Indonesia.
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EngageMedia with the Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (JPIC MSC) and Secretariat for Justice and Peace (SKP KC) present PAPUAN VOICES - untold stories of the conflict from Papuan's themselves. Aside from Jakarta, screening will also be organised in Jayapura, Merauke, and Semarang to date.
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Indonesian Solidarity is organizing a public forum on Friday 2nd December 2011, talking about a grassroots movement in West Papua calling for a dialogue between Jakarta and Papua to address social and political issues in the territory.
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