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Act now for West Papua

Find out how you can help to progress the campaign calling for a review of the conduct of the United Nations in 1969 and of the Act of 'Free' Choice when West Papua was removed from the United Nations List of Non Self-Governing Territories and the people abandoned to Indonesian military occupation.

http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/wp011203.htm

(Added: Tue Jan 24 2006   Modified: Wed Jul 12 2006   Hits: 330)

Child Soldiers Ratification Campaign: Fiji

Fijian troops have served in many peacekeeping operations around the world, yet Fiji has not yet signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child which establishes 18 as the minimum age for conscription, forced recruitment, or participation in armed conflict. Write to the Fijian government now to encourage it to adopt the protocol.

http://hrw.org/campaigns/crp/action/fiji.htm

(Added: Tue Oct 03 2006   Hits: 252)

Cool Investing: Making Your Money Work for Change

Through the money you deposit in your bank accounts, trust funds, GICs or retirement funds, money is being invested in your name. You have the right (and some would argue, obligation) to ensure that that money you've entrusted to financial managers and institutions is being invested in ways you feel comfortable about (Pacific People's Partnership)

http://www.pacificpeoplespartnership.org/takeaction/responsible_investing.html

(Added: Tue Dec 11 2007   Hits: 62)

EngageMedia.org

EngageMedia.org is a website distributing video about social and environmental justice issues in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It's a space for critical documentary, fiction, artistic and experimental works that challenge the one-way communication of the mainstream media. EngageMedia aims to demystify and provide access to new video distribution technologies, create an online archive of independent video productions using Open Content licenses and form a peer network of video makers, educators and screening organisations. The website welcome contributions that give context to the actions and issues of our times, in a variety of styles and genres, whether it's documentary, fiction or experimental. The site is moderated but very much participant driven.

http://www.engagemedia.org/

(Added: Fri Dec 08 2006   Hits: 393)

Global Exchange Action Center

Global Exchange's action centre provides you the means to take action on a number of issues. Make a call. Send a letter. Send a fax. Let your voice be heard.

http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/actions.html

(Added: Thu Feb 20 2003   Modified: Thu Jun 15 2006   Hits: 534)

Increase the UN mission in East Timor

Please send a short letter to Alexander Downer requesting the Australian government to comply to the government of East Timor's request for a unified military force under UN auspices

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/21%20August%202006.doc

(Added: Tue Aug 22 2006   Hits: 247)

Stop Pirate Fishing

The Pacific Island states are beginning to take control of the fishing around their islands. Their future is tied to the health of the fishery and ocean ecosystems, and the fish from here feeds people all over the world. But tougher rules and laws are needed to crack down on the pirate fishers pillaging the seas - stealing from honest operators and future generations. Otherwise, there is no hope of saving the last healthy tuna fishery in the world. Greenpeace conservatively estimates the costs of pirate fishing in lost earnings to Pacific Island States is between US$134 million and US$400 million per year - much more than all Pacific Island States earn in fisheries access and licenses fees. Pirate fishing is a major threat to Pacific fisheries and our marine environment. Pacific Island States that see none of the profits and receive no tax income yet pay the costs through a diminished resource and lost potential earnings. This petition will be delivered to delegates at the first meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Commission in December. It supports those delegates who are willing to put sustainability first.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/save-our-seas-2/don-t-waste-our-oceans/stop-pirate-fishing

(Added: Fri Aug 27 2004   Modified: Tue Sep 19 2006   Hits: 358)

Stop the intimidation and violence torwards Papua's tribal peoples

Write a letter to the President of Indonesia to express concern at the death threats received by human rights activists and LEMASA, the Amungme tribal council, in Papua, and at the intimidation and violence experienced by Papua's tribal peoples. Urge the Indonesian government to halt the military build-up in Papua and the intimidation of the province's human rights workers. There must also be a fully independent investigation into the death of Theys Eluay. Urge the government to revive the process of 'National Dialogue' with the Papuan people.

http://www.survival-international.org/how_to_help.php?howto_help_id=40

(Added: Mon Aug 28 2006   Hits: 235)

The Responsible Tourist Checklist

Here are a few things that you can do to lighten your step, deepen your experience, and be a responsible visitor - one that would be welcome back to the Pacific again (Pacific People's Partnership).

http://www.pacificpeoplespartnership.org/takeaction/responsible_tourist.html

(Added: Tue Dec 11 2007   Hits: 114)

URGENT APPEAL: 11 Political Prisoners in Tantui Ambon, 30 Political Prisoners Polres Ambon

Republik Maluku Selatan (the Moluccan Islands or Maluku) form an island group in the eastern part of present-day Indonesia. The Maluku (Moluccan) people, called Alifuru, are West-Melanesians. Indonesian forces invaded the Moluccan Islands or Maluku, on July 13, 1950. Indonesia has met all of the opposition with repression of human rights and wholesale decimation of the Moluccan islands and resources. Indonesia has relocated many Javanese into Maluku as part of a strategy to undermine the self-determination claim of the Maluku people. Finally, the Indonesian government carries out policies to break down the Moluccan culture. Since (the year) 2000 more than 400 South-Moluccan Republic activists have been arrested in Indonesia for expressing their will to be independent. Their punishment varies from an imprisonment of several months up to 15 years. Currently more than 50 activists are still in jail. Please sign the urgent action. (Foundation for keeping Moluccan Civil and Political Rights (FKMCPR)).

http://www.fkmcpr.nl/?page=6813

(Added: Tue Jul 24 2007   Hits: 142)

What You can do about climate change

This WWF South Pacific webpage provides a number of ways you can get involved in the issue of climate change in the South Pacific.

http://www.wwfpacific.org.fj/what_we_do/climate_change/what_you_can_do.cfm

(Added: Thu Mar 02 2006   Hits: 307)