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Akha Ride for Freedom

Mon, 11/05/2007 - Akha

Press Release
Nov. 3, 2007
The Akha Heritage Foundation
PO BOX 6073
Salem, Oregon 97304
www.akha.org
akhalife (a t) gmail.com

"Ride For Freedom"
Coast to Coast by Horseback for Akha Human Rights

Matthew McDaniel and members of the Akha Heritage Foundation will be campaigning for Akha Human Rights and Akha Project advancement with a US National Human Rights Tour.

But there is something different about this tour.

West Papuan National Coalition for Liberation - Established

Twenty-seven leaders representing different Factions of the West Papuan Independence Movement have agreed in their meeting held in Yambi, Papua New Guinea on the formation of a national unity and reconciliation body, the West Papuan National Coalition for Liberation. The meeting was held between 28 November and 1st December 2005 and was attended by leaders from 18 resistance organizations including the TPN, the Military Arm of the OPM.

OGIEK OPPOSE KIBAKI’S DIRECTIVE ON TITLE DEEDS

The President’s directive that more than 12,000 Ogiek shall be issued with title deed in the Mau is ill timed and a monumental conspiracy to expropriate Ogiek ancestral land in Nakuru and Narok districts to other mainstream societies for political expediency. The Ogiek land struggle is as old as our independence and to date the Ogiek people are not legally among the 42 tribes of Kenya.

Press Releases: Human Rights Champion Lord Frank Judd calls for UN Review

The West Papuans' campaign calling on the UN Secretary-General to order a review of the UN's conduct during the 1969 Act of 'Free' Choice gathered further momentum this week when the Rt Hon. Lord Frank Judd of Portsea, a Labour Member of the UK House of Lords (Senate), former Foreign Office Minister and Director of Oxfam, and highly respected human rights and development consultant and champion, added his considerable personal authority to the campaign.

Vanuatu Declared War against Indonesia: Old Issue Becomes New.

Press Release, 28th September 2004. Today, Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Barak Sope Tame MAATAMATE of Vanuatu call the UN to take moral and political responsibility for it’s past mistake on the issue of West Papua. He reaffirmed that to bring last peace and security in West Papua, the issue of self-determination and independence of the people of West Papua and review of the conduct of the UN in relation to the Act of “Free Choice” in 1969 must be given a central attention in new UN reform program.

OPM denies involvement in Freeport killings.

WEST PAPUAN PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATIVE OFFICE P.O. Box 1571, Port Vila, Republic of Vanuatu PRESS RELEASE - Port Vila, Vanuatu, June 29, 2004. Against strong evidence to the contrary, Jakarta and Washington are now attempting to place direct responsibility on the OPM for the murder of two American civilians and the wounding of eleven others, in 2002, near the US owned Freeport gold and copper mine in the disputed Indonesian province of West Papua. The OPM believes this is a blatant cover-up.

Live Stream from the UN WGIP 19th till 23rd July 2004

Dear all supporters and interested people, fPcN Germany (friends of Peoples close to Nature/Freunde der Naturvölker e. V.) will participate at the 22nd session of the "Working Group on Indigenous Populations" at the UN in Geneva, from 19th till 23rd July 2004. The theme will be: "Indigenous Peoples and Conflict Resolution". You can also watch us, live under: http://video.uni-lueneburg.de/stream/un_indigenous, see more, for times... We have already invited and organised a speech, at the UN Working Group for Indigenous Populations 2004, for: