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“Building Back Better” Business, Human Rights, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Pacific with OHCHR ROP in partnership with BHHRC, CCF, PIANGO and UNSW's IGD

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Civil society and churches have called for the cancellation of all licenses for deep sea mining off the coast of PNG. Representing the Alliance of Solwara Warriors, Jonathan Mesulam said cancellation was needed to protect “our cultures, lives and livelihoods for us and future generations”

UN Special Rapporteurs with different human rights mandates have joined together to raise their concerns about a planned Australian/Chinese Gold/Copper mine that that threatens the peoples and environment of the Sepik River. Emmanuel “Manu” Peni of Project Sepik advises that they have raised their concerns with the UN and the company and government.The campaign to stop the mine is gathering international support.

Mogana is a young lawyer in Malaysia. She joined DTP’s special program there on the rights of migrant workers. She was then helping DTP's partner North South Institute, working on Nepalese migrant workers’ cases in particular. She then joined DTP’s partner, Our Journey and was recommended for DTP’s annual human rights defenders program in Timor-Leste. Mogana's attendance in two DTP training programs gave her the opportunity to make valuable connections and meet passionate people from around the world, working on similar issues.

The exploitation and abuse of Malaysian and Indonesian workers in Malaysia’s palm oil plantations is highlighted and linked to some of the world's biggest brands and banks in this AP report. Sent by Liva Sreedharan

MIGRANT FORUM IN ASIA Wage Theft Campaign - Fourth MFA appeal for a judicial mechanism for repatriated migrant workers targets states to set up sub-commissions at national level to address the issue. READ MORE

FORUM-ASIA Human Rights in Southeast Asia in Times of Pandemic is a new report of a series of webinars hosted by Forum-Asia. While the pandemic has been used by governments to undermine human rights, the webinars came up with recommendations to ASEAN governments and civil society. READ THE REPORT

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Issue #111 September 2020

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