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Statement of Aims
This information kit has been prepared
with the following aims:
1. to inform the general public of
a range of critical social and environmental issues in West Papua
and to encourage Australian NGOs and their members to make contact
with counterpart Indonesian NGOs and other foreign government,
non-government and public organisations in order to exchange information
and determine strategies which may assist the West Papuan people;
2. to facilitate action which may be
taken by groups in Australia in lobbying the Federal government
to a) conduct an investigation into the current situation in West
Papua (particularly in light of the reports of recent killings
in the vicinity of the Freeport copper and gold mine), and b)
take up the concerns raised here with the Government of Indonesia,
and support the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights
in conducting a comprehensive investigation of allegations of
human rights abuses;
and
3. to have the issues of human rights
violations and transmigration fully investigated by a team of
UN observers, including the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial,
Summary or Arbitrary Executions, with a view to reporting to the
UN Human Rights Commission and the UN Working Group on Indigenous
Populations, and the question of West Papua's status restored
to the agenda of the UN Decolonization Committee.
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