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Fiji gay decision welcomed by NZAF

The New Zealand AIDS Foundation is delighted at reports that the Fijiian High Commissioner has confirmed gay men will no longer be arrested for engaging in consensual sex in Fiji, saying that this is a great step forward for the human rights of gay citizens and tourists as well as HIV prevention efforts. (NZAF, Scoop, 11 July 2006)

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0607/S00091.htm

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Tortured Beginnings: Police Violence and the Beginnings of Impunity in East Timor

This 60-page report is based on dozens of interviews with witnesses and victims of police abuse in East Timor. It documents excessive force during arrests, torture and ill-treatment of detainees by the National Police of East Timor. It goes over reforms, institutions and practices needed to create police accountability in East Timor, and makes recommendations to the Government of East Timor, and to donors and others providing assistance to the police. (Human Rights Watch, April 2006)

http://hrw.org/reports/2006/easttimor0406/

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Islamic Law and Criminal Justice in Aceh

As a debate rages in Indonesia about the role of the state in enforcing Islamic law, all eyes are on Aceh, the only part of the Indonesian country allowed to apply Shari'a in full. Practical problems have arisen as the province, emerging from a long civil conflict, tries to enforce the first three Shari'a regulations passed by the district government. While Shari'a officials there deeply believe that strict enforcement will facilitate broader goals like peace, reconstruction and reconciliation, the religious bureaucracy also has a vested interest in its own expansion, and women and the poor have become the primary targets of enforcement. (International Crisis Group, 31 July 2006)

http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4295&l=1

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"Making Their Own Rules" Police Beatings, Rape, and Torture of Children in Papua New Guinea

Human Rights Watch, 2005. This report is based on research in Papua New Guinea in September 2004, as well as additional information gathered by HRW researchers between May 2004 and July 2005. Papua New Guinea's serious crime problem is being met with a violent police response. Children, who make up nearly half of the country's some 5.6 million people, are especially vulnerable. Brutal beatings, rape, and torture of children, as well as confinement in sordid police lockup, are widespread police practices. Although even high level government officials acknowledge this, almost nothing has been done to stop it.

http://hrw.org/reports/2005/png0905/

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5th Pacific Human Rights Awards

Know of any group making a difference in your community, country or across the region? The Regional Rights Resource Team (RRRT) is seeking nominations and applications for the 5th Pacific Human Rights Awards in recognition of Pacific organisations that have helped make our region a better place to live through promoting social and economic justice, defending civil rights, promoting respect and understanding, or enhancing the dignity of the poor and disadvantaged. Awards totalling FJ$7000 will be made in acknowledgement of winners' work. This year, RRRT is offering prizes under two categories: · The Pacific region · Fiji The awards are open to all Pacific Island civil society or non-governmental organisations at a national or regional level. Deadline for applications is 31st January, 2005.

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/RRRT.doc

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6th RRRT Pacific Human Rights Awards

Know of any group making a difference in your community, country or across the region? At the end of each year RRRT seeks nominations and applications for its annual Pacific Human Rights Awards in recognition of Pacific organisations that have helped make our region a better place to live through promoting social and economic justice, defending human rights, promoting respect and understanding, or enhancing the dignity of the poor and disadvantaged. Applications for the awards open on International Human Rights Day (10 December) each year, and close 31st January the following year.

http://www.rrrt.org/page.asp?active_page_id=77

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7th RRRT Pacific Human Rights Awards

RRRT is seeking nominations and applications for the 7th RRRT Pacific Human Rights Awards in recognition of Pacific organisations that over the year 2006/7 have helped make our region a better place to live through promoting social and economic justice, defending human rights, promoting respect and understanding, or enhancing the dignity of the poor and disadvantaged. Deadline for nominations is the 9 November 2007.

http://www.rrrt.org

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A Price Too High: The cost of Australia's approach to Asylum Seekers

This report by Oxfam and A Just Australia, presents new research that shows that, since 2001, it has cost the Australian taxpayer more than $500,000 per person to process fewer than 1,700 asylum seekers in Nauru, Manus and Christmas Island. This compares with estimates from the Australian Government's Department of Immigration and Citizenship which suggests that the cost of holding asylum seekers in a mainland Australian detention centre is only 3.5% of the running costs of the Pacific Solution. The report also details the health and other costs born by the asylum seekers detained as part of the 'Pacific Solution'.

http://www.oxfam.org.au/media/files/APriceTooHigh.pdf

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Alleged Human Rights Abuses, Constitutional Violations & Breaches of the Rule of Law in relation to the Coup d' etat of 5th December 2006

This table documents dates (ranging from the 30 November to the 11 December); sources of information; human rights, constitutional provisions or rule of law violated; sources of law; and resulting actions, or comments. (Nic McLellan, December 2006)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/Alleged%20Human%20Rights%20Abuses_Fiji%20Coup%202006.pdf

(Added: Thu Jan 25 2007   Hits: 169)

Amnesty International Australia Action Centre

You can act now! Use Amnety International Australia's Action Centre to promote and defend human rights around the world. Every day in the news media we are witness to the cruelty and horror inflicted upon countless women, men and children around the world. Some are targeted in armed conflict, while others languish hidden in jails because they dared to express their opinions. It's your turn to speak out. Use your freedom to fight for the freedom of others.

http://action.amnesty.org.au/

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Amnesty International Report 1999 Asia and the Pacific

Although serious human rights problems persisted across Asia, aggravated in some countries by the economic crisis, 1998 also saw some positive developments in the region.

http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar99/asa.htm

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Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions

The Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions opens up important new avenues for strengthening human rights observance and advancing human rights protection for the peoples of the region in a constructive and cooperative environment. It provides a framework of regional cooperation for the development and implementation of practical programs which aim to genuinely improve the enjoyment of human rights by individuals and vulnerable groups.

http://www.asiapacificforum.net/

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Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR)

Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) is a network of Australian lawyers interested in furthering awareness and advocacy of human rights in Australia. ALHR promotes the practice of human rights law in Australia and works with Australian and international human rights organisations to achieve this aim.

http://www.alhr.asn.au/

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Australian Legal Resources International (ALRI)

ALRI is an independent non-governmental organisation of judges and lawyers that works to support countries seeking to establish or reinforce democracy, social justice, human rights and good governance. ALRI helps design and implement legal institutional strengthening and capacity building programs in South and South East Asia, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East.

http://www.atwww.com/page.asp?PartID=141&depth=

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Bulldozing Progress: Human Rights Abuse and Corruption in PNG's Large Scale Logging Industries

The logging industry in Papua New Guinea is dominated by a handful of Malaysian companies and is is synonymous with political corruption, police racketeering and the brutal repression of workers, women and those who question its ways. Its operations routinely destroy the food sources, water supplies and cultural property of those same communities. They provide a breeding ground for arms smuggling, corruption and violence across the country. In return, the industry generates no lasting economic benefit to forest communities, considerable long-term cost and a modest 5 per cent contribution to the national budget. A concerted international effort backed by credible enforcement agencies is now needed to reform the industry and restore the human and economic rights of PNG forest communities. (Australian Conservation Foundation, 2006)

http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res_ACF-CELCOR_full.pdf#search=%22Bulldozing%20%22

(Added: Mon Sep 11 2006   Hits: 244)

Converging Currents: Custom and Human Rights in the Pacific

Custom and Human Rights are embedded in many Pacific constitutions or statues, yet the two concepts are often percieved as conflicting. The focus of this study is the practical operation of justice mechanisms, including both the courts and the wide range of community justice bodies found in the Pacific. Development of a Pacific jurisprudence will only occur as Pacific nations find ways to better intergrate these two sources of law. (New Zealand Law Commission, October 2006)

http://www.lawcom.govt.nz/ProjectStudyPapers.aspx?ProjectID=120

(Added: Mon Oct 16 2006   Hits: 188)

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior - Special memorial edition

David Robie's Eyes of Fire is republished To mark the twentieth anniversary of the sinking of the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior by French secret agents, David Robie has republished his work Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage of the Rainbow Warrior. This edition includes a postscript by Robie that brings us up to date with some of the many players from this remarkable human rights story. On 10 July 1985, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour. The environmental ship had arrived in New Zealand to prepare for an anti-nuclear protest voyage to Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia. Portuguese-born photographer Fernando Pereira died in the sabotage outrage that shook the world. The bombed ship was 'buried' off Matauri Bay in 1987 to form an ecological reef and a new Rainbow Warrior was commissioned. A decade later, under mounting Pacific pressure, France abandoned its unpopular nuclear tests. This book is the tale of the last voyage of the bombed ship to the Marshall Islands and the impact of nuclear testing on Rongelap Atoll and in French Polynesia.

http://www.southpacificbooks.co.nz/robie.asp

(Added: Tue Jun 21 2005   Modified: Thu Oct 06 2005   Hits: 295)

femLINKpacific

The overarching development objective of their work is to address the imbalances caused by the traditional decision-making structures which impede women and young women's effective participation, especially from the rural population and the poor, to communicate openly on common matters. By developing and implementing a range of women's media initiatives, such as taking a small mobile radio unit out to women and the communities, femLINKpacific offers a "safe space" to articulate and exchange their viewpoints.

http://www.womensmediapool.org/grupos/femlink.htm

(Added: Thu Jun 08 2006   Hits: 315)

Fiji activists claim they were beaten

PRO-DEMOCRACY activists rounded up by Fiji's military regime before Christmas remained silent about their ordeal today although one woman claimed anonymously that they were beaten up.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20975576-1702,00.html

(Added: Wed Jan 03 2007   Hits: 147)

Fiji Human Rights Report on Bainimarama assumption of power in Fiji [pdf]

This Fiji Human Rights Commission report that finds the overthrown Qarase government was elected unconstitutionally in 2006 and itself was involved in massive violations of human rights in Fiji, constituting crimes against humanity.

http://www.humanrights.org.fj/publications/2007/Investigation%20Report%20on%20Events%20of%20December%206%202006.pdf

(Added: Fri Jan 05 2007   Modified: Fri Jan 12 2007   Hits: 163)

Final Report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor [PDF]

This much awaited report details the systematic human rights violations committed during the 24-year Indonesian occupation of Timor and the failure to achieve justice for these crimes. The report, entitled "Chega!" ("Enough!" in Portuguese), is available in English and Bahasa Indonesia. From the International Centre for Transitional Justice.

http://www.etan.org/news/2006/cavr.htm

(Added: Mon Feb 20 2006   Modified: Thu Jan 18 2007   Hits: 275)

Forest Minister Tries To Gag Debate

Forest Minister, Patrick Pruaitch, is resorting to ever more desperate measures to try and silence the debate over Papua New Guinea's notoriously corrupt and destructive logging industry. After attempts to prevent discussion of key issues spectacularly backfired at last months Forest Law Enforcement Seminar organised by the PNG Forest Authority, the Minister has now demanded that Forestry Officials do not 'participate, facilitate or engage' in any 'seminars, conferences or studies' that are not personally approved by himself. (Masalai i tokaut, 20 November 2006)

http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0611/Masalai49ForestMinistergags.pdf

(Added: Tue Nov 28 2006   Hits: 150)

Front Line Indonesia: Murders Death Threat and Other Forms of Intimidation of Human Rights Defenders, 1998-2002 (PDF)

Front Line & IMPARSIAL: The Indonesian Human Rights Watch. This report offers a broad outline of the political and historical context of human rights violations and the work of human rights defenders. Its primary focus rests on the cases of abuse, arbitrary arrest, torture, disappearance, murder and other forms of intimidation perpetrated against human rights defenders in Indonesia. The report is not exhaustive but gives a picture of a pattern of intimidation of human rights defenders. Three regions have been singled out for special consideration: the capital, Jakarta, in the lead up to and following the 21 May 1998 resignation of president Soeharto as well as Aceh and West Papua, which are home to Indonesia s longest and bloodiest separatist movements. Just as human rights violations have escalated in these regions, so too have crimes against human rights defenders.

http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Eendi/imparsial/Frontline.pdf

(Added: Fri Feb 04 2005   Modified: Thu Jan 18 2007   Hits: 296)

Imparsial: Indonesian Human Rights Monitor

IMPASIAL was established in June 2002 by 17 of Indonesia s most prominent human rights advocates who shared the same concern: the power of the state showed an increasing tendency to assert itself to the detriment of civil society. Imparcial is committed to upholding the fundamental equality of therights possessed by all human beings, with special concern given to promoting the rights of the less fortunate. The organization's impartiality also denotes its commitment to helping victims of human rights abuse regardless of their social origins, gender, ethnicity, political or religious beliefs.

http://www.imparsial.org

(Added: Fri Feb 04 2005   Modified: Thu Jan 18 2007   Hits: 213)

Indonesia: Impunity and human rights violations in Papua

(2002) Amnesty International's report Impunity and human rights violations in Papua documents grave human rights violations in the province of Papua and the way in which failure to investigate and bring to justice perpetrators of violations is perpetuating this situation.

http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engasa210152002

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