exploitation

British Petrolium in bed with the killers

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 13:04
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BP has a legal right to get a licence from Indonesia to extract gas in West Papua. Its moral case is less clearcut.

It all seems a very long way away. But what is happening in an obscure island nation in the south Pacific has now become our business. A few weeks ago BP, the British company that has invested most in "corporate social responsibility", received final approval to start developing a gas field in West Papua, the western half of the island of New Guinea.

UNITED NATIONS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE ACT OF SELF- DETERMINATION IN WEST IRIAN (West Papua)

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 12:06
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(INDONESIAN WEST NEW GUINEA) 1968 TO 1969 - by John Saltford -Introduction.....This paper, based mainly upon previously classified United Nations documents, will seek to re-examine the events surrounding the Act of Free Choice which took place in West New Guinea in July and August 1969. In particular, I wish to look at the role of the United Nations and consider whether or not it fulfilled its responsibilities towards the Papuan people.

Cultural exploitation of Hadzabe by German and Swiss institutions

Submitted by FdN on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 14:43
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The collection of important spiritual artefacts of the Hadzabe - a hunter-gatherer people located in East Africa - that had been stolen and brought to Germany by Nazi anthropologist Kohl-Larsen at the beginning of last century still is, unlawfully, in the hands of the Tubingen University, which means that the commercial exploitation of these artefact still bears fruit.