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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

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Gender-Based Violence Contributing To Spread Of HIV In Papua New Guinea, Amnesty International Report Says

Violence against women is contributing to the spread of HIV in Papua New Guinea, Amnesty International said in its recent annual report. (Medical News Today, June 2008)

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/109676.php

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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

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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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Know your Rights Information Campaign

The KNOW YOUR RIGHTS series of 30 public service announcements is aimed at raising understanding of, and support for, human rights among Pacific Islanders from all walks of life. (Pacific Regional Rights Resource Team (PRRRT), December 2007)

http://www.rrrt.org/page.asp?active_page_id=224

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Law of the Pacific Islands: A Guide to Web Based Resources

By Ruth Bird. This Resource guide deals with internet sites providing Caselaw, Legislation and Government home pages for the Pacific Island region. There are also links to several relevant journals, and to academic sites providing dedicated Pacific Law web pages, or Centres dealing with Pacific Law.

http://www.llrx.com/features/pacific2.htm

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Legal Critique of the Shameen Report

Following the December 2006 coup in Fiji, the Director of the Fiji Human Rights Commission, Dr Shaista Shameem, prepared a report purported to carry the authority of the Commission. However Commissioner Shamima Ali of the Fiji Human Rights Commission has dissassociated herself from that report and comissioned this legal critique of the Shameen report, calling "little more than an apology for the Commander [J V Bainimarama]". (Fiji Human Rights Commission, January 2006)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/shameem%20legal%20critique.pdf

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Lina Joy's despair: A legal blow to religious freedom

"Every person has the right to profess and practise his religion." Article 11 of Malaysia's constitution could hardly be more definitive. Yet Lina Joy, who has fought for nine years for the right to convert from Islam to Christianity, was told by the country's Supreme Court on May 30th that the guarantee is worthless to her. The court rejected her demand to have "Islam" removed as the religion stated on her official identity card. It ruled she first needed permission to leave the faith from the country's separate sharia courts, which interpret traditional Muslim law. These treat apostates as sinners to be punished, not individuals with a right to their own beliefs (The Economist, 31 May 2007).

http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9262452

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Local and Global Women's Rights in the Pacific

This article reflects on the discussions by women living in the Pacific (from Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu) who attended the Association for Women's rights in Development Forum. These small island countries of the South Pacific are usually unknown entities to the women's movement globally. Yet, as the author shows, many of their specific local issues are integrally linked to global concerns. (Vanessa Griffen, Development Journal no.49, Society for International Development, 2006)

http://www.palgrave-journals.com/development/journal/v49/n1/full/1100223a.html

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Melanesian Brotherhood Wins The 4th Pacific Human Rights Awards

The Melanesian Brotherhood - the largest religious community in the Anglican Communion - was awarded the first prize in the regional category of the 4th Pacific Human Rights Awards, for its active role in peacemaking and reconciliation during the 1999 and 2000 ethnic conflict in the Solomon Islands. (Diana Mavunduse, 2004)

http://www.anglican.ca/news/news.php?newsItem=2004-02-27_brothers.news

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Military denies causing death

Jan 8: THE military has denied allegations that it assaulted a man from Nakaulevu Village in Nakelo, Tailevu which resulted in his death on Friday

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=54813

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National Human Rights Institutions Pathways for Pacific States

The paper Pathways for Pacific States published by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat with the assistance of the New Zealand Human Rights Commission was based on visits to Tuvalu, Niue and Samoa. Consultation with a range of Pacific nations has identified the need and desire for a more comprehensive focus on human rights. The Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat Greg Urwin urged Pacific leaders to make use of the paper as an important guide for how the recognition of international human rights conventions served to improve governance (Human Rights Commission, Pacific Island Forum Secretariat, 9 August 2007).

http://www.hrc.co.nz/hrc_new/hrc/cms/files/documents/09-Jul-2007_12-52-44_Pacific_Paper.pdf

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Pacific Islands Endorse Mechanisms to Focus on Regional Human Rights Issues

United Nations Press Release, 10 June 2004. Representatives of 15 Pacific Island countries meeting in Fiji have called for more measures to make human rights a reality in the region. Participants at the Pacific Human Rights Consultation held from 1 to 3 June in the Fijian capital Suva concluded that human rights issues in the Pacific region required greater attention. This could be achieved with the establishment and development of national human rights institutions and regional initiatives, they suggested.

http://www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/FAA74F8E315D1365C1256EAF0046B4D5?opendocument

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Pacific Regional Rights Resource Team

The Pacific Regional Rights Resource Team (RRRT) provides training, technical support, policy and advocacy advice in human rights to promote social justice and good governance throughout the Pacific region.

http://www.rrrt.org/

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Presentation of Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network to the 6th Session of United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Jiten Yumnam, from the Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Newtwork, discusses the impacts of militarization and prevailing impunity on Asian indigenous youth (Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network,United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, May 2007).

http://www.apiyn.org/statement06.html

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Reporters without Borders Annual Report 2008 Asia-Pacific

The report includes surveys of press freedom in every region of the world over the past year and chapters on 98 countries, including European Union members and the United States. The report's introduction lists problems expected in the coming year, especially physical attacks on journalists during key elections in Pakistan (18 February), Russia (2 March), Iran (14 March) and Zimbabwe (29 March) (Reporters without Borders, February 2008).

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/Report%20ASIA.pdf

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Rights Australia

Australian national human rights campaign organisation. Rights Australia's mission is "To bring to the community's attention situations where: * human rights are being neglected and abused; * lives could be improved if human rights were protected; and * support can be given for better and lasting protection of human rights. To achieve this we will work in ways which are positive and uniting, not divisive or driven by fear. We will be honest and direct, as we have seen that it is not good enough to pretend that we have human rights protections, or that because some of us enjoy these rights, everything is fine. We will remind ourselves, and our governments, that the protection of human rights is an issue for all of us."

http://www.rightsaustralia.org.au/

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Rights of Passage: A Dialogue with Young Australians about Human Rights

Rights of Passage is a record of what we heard in the course of the Young People and Human Rights Dialogue. Begun in April 2005, the project's primary aim was to ascertain what young Australians know about human rights, and to listen to their views on a wide range of contemporary, rights-related issues. Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, 2005. Abvailable in PDF and Doc format.

http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/rights_of_passage/

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Solomon Islands: Women confronting violence

Women and girls in the Solomon Islands remain at risk of violence following a five-year armed conflict. As recently as August 2004, groups of armed men have raped women, tortured men and destroyed family homes during raids on villages. AI's latest report examines the causes and consequences of the violence.

http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engasa430012004

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Still Making Their Own Rules: Ongoing Impunity for Police Beatings, Rape, and Torture in Papua New Guinea

Children and others in police custody in Papua New Guinea are often raped and tortured, despite recent juvenile justice reform efforts. Police routinely lock children up with adults, even when separate space is available, placing them at risk of rape and other forms of violence. Police rarely provide children with medical care, even when seriously injured. This 50-page report is a follow-up to Human Rights Watch's 2005 report on police violence against children. The report tracks developments in 2005 and 2006, and determines that abusive officials rarely face punishment. Police abuse - particularly the targeting of sex workers and boys and men perceived to be homosexual, as well as harassment of people carrying condoms - may worsen PNG's AIDS epidemic by undermining HIV prevention efforts. (Human Rights Watch, October 2006)

http://hrw.org/reports/2006/png1006/

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The Assumption of Executive Authority on December 5th 2006 by Commodore J.V. Bainimarama: Legal, Constitutional and Human Rights Issues

The Report widens the doctrine of necessity to legitimate the Commander's usurpation of power, then characterizes aspects of the Vice President's actions post May 2000 and prior to the general election of 2001, as outside the doctrine. It then concludes that the general elections were therefore invalid, illegal and unconstitutional. (Dr Shaista Shameem, Fiji Human Rights Commission, January 2007)

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/FHRC_Report_3Jan07.pdf

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The Indigenous Rights Movement in the Pacific

A look indigenous rights in the pacific, including information on the origins and highlights of the modern pacific indigenous rights movement. By Kekuni Blaisdell, Honolulu, Ka Pae'aina Hawai'i (In Motion Magazine).

http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/pacific.html#anchor842102

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The National Committee on Human Rights Education (AUSTRALIA)

Human rights education is critical to maintaining and fostering a tolerant, just, equitable and democratic society. Recognising the importance of human rights education in Australia and the currently existing gaps in its delivery and coordination, a number of Australians with the support and encouragement of government agencies, business and community organisations have established a National Committee on Human Rights Education. Fundamental to the work of the Committee will be defining and re-examining human rights education in Australia and ensuring our community draws the greatest possible benefit from it. At the heart of human rights education is promotion of values and access to knowledge that can be summed up in the Australian ethos of 'a fair go for all'.

http://www.humanrights.s5.com/

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The Situation of Human Rights Defenders in the Pacific Islands

This report has been prepared for the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary General on the situation of human rights defenders. It includes the Fiji Islands, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Kiribati, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Cook Islands. This report attempts to deal with eight Pacific Island countries as a group by drawing together common threads (Regional Rights Resource Team, September 2005).

http://pacific.ohchr.org/docs/HRD_Pacific_2005.pdf

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The systematic torture and abuse of prisoners by the government of Tonga following civil unrest in November 2006

This report exposes the systematic nature of torture and abuse of prisoners arrested and held in the cells of the Nuku'alofa Police Station by Tonga Defence Service (TDS) personnel and Police Officers from the Tonga Police Force since the Nuku'alofa riots on 16th November 2006. Treatment amounting to torture under the common law of Tonga and International law has also been reported as occurring in custody. Official figures regarding the number of prisoners in custody are also questioned by information collected. This is of significant concern given the current practice of prisoners being held incommunicado. Up to 40 children have been estimated to have been held in custody at some stage since the 16th November. The report recommends that the Government of Tonga take urgent measures to address the serious human rights issues raised in this report. (National Centre for Women and Children, November 2006)

http://indymedia.org.nz/usermedia/application/7/ncwc_report_on_government_torture_in_tonga_nov_2006.pdf

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