Amy is a lawyer with over two decades’ experience in law and human rights. As the Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Regional Representative for BHRRC, she has helped drive the Business and Human Rights Agenda in the region – including through the adoption of the Modern Slavery Act in Australia.

"Hearing directly from community advocates about their experiences on the ground, and working with them to develop a pathway forwards, is one of the most valuable aspects of our involvement in the Pacific BHR trainings with DTP."

James Meimana works with the Network for Indigenous People in the Solomons (NIPS) as a Project Manager. He is also employed as a Senior Compliance Officer at the Ministry of Fisheries for the Solomon Islands. He is currently working on several projects, including preparing a community-based protocol for food security and gender rights, exchanging knowledge between the mining companies and the local communities, land stewardship and, food security and climate change.  

"I have been attending training from other organizations, but I cannot remember coming across another effective training such as DTP, I made new friends from PNG, West Papua, Fiji, Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Timor-Leste and Indonesia. We stayed in the same hotel, we exchanged information, we had some fun together."

DTP congratulates Binota May Dhamai on his recent election to Chair of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

DTP congratulates Sheena Watt MP on her recent appointment as Parliamentary Secretary of Housing in Victoria

Anisur Rahman Khan expressed Awaj Foundation’s appreciation of help from Malaysian CSOs and others in successfully in repatriating Mr. Ataur Rahman, a Bangladeshi migrant worker who had been imprisoned in a Malaysian jail. Thanks to this example of transnational/migrant corridor advocacy a son was able to return to his family. Undocumented and detained migrant workers in Malaysia are at heightened risk of human rights abuses. Awaj works on these cases and for systemic change.

Tirtha Prasad shares that Barshashree Buragohain, a 19-year-old Assam girl has been in jail for two months for writing “seditious” poem on Facebook

Sumitha Shaanthinni Kishna shares that Indonesia has imposed a temporary freeze on sending migrant workers to Malaysia due to the latter’s breach of the terms in the domestic worker memorandum of understanding 

Sandra Creamer shared her inspiring story of surviving domestic violence, to her advocacy for Indigenous peoples rights and her admission to the Queensland Supreme Court

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Issue #153 July 2022

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