10-14 December 2010
Impunity is like a ‘virus’
IHRC was very pleased to welcome Rusdi Marpaung as our guest at a seminar following our AGM on 11 December, 2010. Rusdi also addressed a public meeting in Whangarei, met with Auckland MPs and attended the Amnesty Aotearoa’s Human Rights Defender Award ceremony.
Rusdi is a Senior researcher with Imparsial—a [...]
NZ Herald:
INDONESIA – Environmentalists praised Burger King’s decision Saturday to stop buying palm oil from an Indonesian company accused of destroying rainforests.
The US hamburger chain giant – which sealed a deal Thursday to sell itself for US$3.26 billion to 3G Capital – said Friday that it was canceling its contract with PT Sinar Mas Agro [...]
‘Palmed Off’ is a short film by LifeMosaic based on the voices of indigenous people’s in 20 Indonesian communities. All have directly experienced the impacts of oil palm plantations taking over the land that they have lived on and worked on for generations. The community members offer testimonies on the impacts of oil palm plantations [...]
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Ask Nestle to give the rainforests a break.
Kit Kat – crunchy, chocolate, forest destroyer. Nestlé, maker of Kit Kat, uses palm oil from companies who are trashing Indonesian rainforests, threatening the livelihoods of local people and pushing orang-utans towards extinction.
We all deserve to have a break – but having one shouldn’t involve taking [...]
2009 Report on Human Rights Practices: Indonesia
March 11, 2010
Indonesia is a multiparty democracy with a population of approximately 245 million. On July 8, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was reelected president in generally free and fair elections. April 9 legislative elections were complex, but domestic and international observers judged them generally free and fair as well. Civilian [...]
30 January, 2010
Hon Mr David Carter,
Minister of Forests,
Parliament Buildings,
Wellington
Dear Minister Carter,
The Indonesia Human Rights Committee and Rainforest Action are shocked at the limp measures included in the Government’s recently announced policy to address illegal logging.
We believe that the policy measures are weak, non-specific and about talking rather [...]
by Catherine Delahunty
Cabinet decisions addressing illegal and unsustainable logging imports released last week claim to be a package of actions. In fact they are a long list of inactions.
The National Government has backed away from the previous Government’s 2008 requirement to label the tropical timber used in outdoor furniture – kwila – which is being [...]
24 Nov 2009 Auckland, New Zealand — A human chain of protesters piled sacks labelled ‘Fonterra palm kernel’ and ‘Fonterra coal’ outside Fonterra’s corporate headquarters in protest of greenhouse gas emissions caused by the dairy giant’s intensive farming practices.
Click here to read more: Greenpeace Protest Outside Fonterra
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
IHRC supports the Green Party’s Amendment Bill. For more information go to http://www.greens.org.nz/rainforests
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