On a sunny Saturday afternoon, over twenty-five people including high school students and veteran activists protested outside the Grey Lynn Mitre 10 calling for the company to stop selling Kwila furniture. A letter was delivered to the store Manager and the protest got lots of toots and waves of support from passers-by. Police were [...]
Posted in Indonesia, News, West Papua | 2 Comments »>A Greenpeace investigation has revealed that the iconic New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra is implicated in Indonesian and Malaysian rainforest destruction, dead orangutans and driving global greenhouse gas emissions.
Click here to read more: Greenpeace investigates Fonterra or here to view images: Destruction of a rainforest or here: more images
Rainforest Action recently received an email from an anti-logging agent busy in the field. This was his report:
Kwila & TradeMe
Heaps of people are trading and dealing with kwila on trade me. In a search for a few random items on trade me the other day, the word ‘kwila’ flashed onto the screen. So I decided [...]
Indonesia Human Rights Committee,
Box 68-419,
Auckland, 1125
9 September, 2009
Media Release: Australia’s Balibo war crimes investigation welcomed and NZ Government urged to support it and challenge Indonesia to come to the party.
The Indonesia Human Rights Committee has written to the Attorney General and the Minister [...]
Posted in Indonesia, News, Timor Leste | 2 Comments »>18 June 2009
If New Zealand could make a contribution that would help prevent further global warming but make virtually no impact on our lifestyle, we would go for it, wouldn’t we? If we could also count on this action to boost local industry there would be no stopping us – right?
Actually, not so when it [...]
Jakarta Post Editorial – July 17, 2009
In November 2004, the newly elected President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono promised to bring the killer of human rights activist
Munir Said Thalib to justice, a killing he once referred to as a
test case on “how much Indonesia has changed”.
But to this day, people are still asking, who killed the
country’s most fearless [...]
IHRC NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES
IHRC publishes regular newsletters. Click below to download a copy.
Winter 2011
Spring 2010
Summer 2009
Winter 2009
Special Issue 2009
Spring 2008
Autumn 2007
Spring 2007
Summer 2006
Autumn 2005
Spring 2005
Spring 2004
Summer 2004
13 July, 2009
The West Papua Advocacy Team or WPAT has praised continued US congressional attention to issues of human rights in Indonesia’s Papua region.
The Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill for 2010 as passed last night by the House of Representatives withholds 2 million US dollars in military assistance to Indonesia pending a State Department report on [...]
Saturday, 29 March 2008, 1:25 pm
Press Release: Indonesia Human Rights Committee
28 March, 2008
Media Information: Embargoed until 12 noon Saturday 29 March, 2008
Protest at the sale of furniture made from rainforest “kwila” from West Papua Indonesia Human Rights Committee and supporters will carry out a demonstration close to the Harvey Norman furniture [...]