An oil palm plantation paid tribe members in Indonesia's Papua as little as 65 cents per hectare for their land. "Papuans, some of the poorest citizens in Indonesia, are being utterly exploited in legally questionabl ...

If we are to talk about media freedom, we are to talk about creating enabling mechanisms for the purposes of defending Our People and promoting and preserving Our Papua New Guinean Ways. What’s the point of having ...

INDONESIA RANKS RIGHT BEHIND THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA IN THE LINEUP OF THE WORLD’S TOP 10 GREENHOUSE GAS EMITTERS. It’s not because of smokestacks or freeways, but massive deforestation starting in the 1990s â ...

THIS INDUSTRY PREYS ON REMOTE ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES KEEPING EVERYTHING OUT OF SIGHT AND OUT OF MIND. Across Australia there has never been a uranium mine that has not leaked radioactive mine waste into the environme ...

Rio Tinto is bad news for many communities around the world. Its operations have failed to provide adequate protection of public health, the environment, workers and human rights. It is a scandal that it should be pr ...

Canada may be one of the world's largest gold mining nations, but both its overseas and domestic mining activities are controversial. ...

When Justice Catherine Davani handed down the only dissenting judgment regarding the Ramu Nickel case, she suggested that the Environment be protected. She stated In Louis Medang v. China Metallurgical Group Corporat ...

Elemental mercury which makes it easy to separate gold from other metal compounds was allegedly used by unscrupulous owners of the gold mine at the site Tayaga II in Paniai district, West Papua. ...

The annual Public Eye Awards selects 6 of the most unethical and abusive corporations from a long list of nominations. Support West Papua and vote for Freeport McMoran this year for worst company. ...

The conflict in West Papua has intensified greatly in the last half-year. Violence and aggression towards Papua’s indigenous people and natural environment takes the form of abuses by the state and corporations, mi ...

A rough translation of Rio Tinto from Spanish into English is Red River. Spain’s Rio Tinto is characterized by deep red water that is highly acidic (pH 1.7—2.5) and rich in heavy metals. Over 5000 years of mining ...

Indigenous communities in West Papua, Indonesia worry about large logging companies coming in to destroy their ancient rainforest. ...

A US federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit seeking to hold Rio Tinto responsible for human rights violations and thousands of deaths linked to a Bougainville copper and gold mine it once ran. ...

U.S. mining giant Freeport-McMoRan Cooper & Gold Inc. halted production at its gold and copper mine in Indonesia's restive province of Papua on Monday over security concerns. ...

A report by China's Forbidden News on the Chinese response to Myanmar president Thein Sein's decision to halt construction of the Myitsone mega-dam project... ...

Indigenous Papuans are waging a four-decade long nonviolent struggle for independence from Indonesia. At the heart of Papuan grievances lies Freeport, the world’s largest gold and copper mine... ...

In the same interview, regarding the impacts of the planned Belo Monte dam on tribal people in the Amazon, Trennepohl stated that his role was not to look after the environment, rather to ‘minimize the impacts.’ ...

Do you know about Raja Ampat, the amazon of the oceans? It is a place of unparalleled beauty in West Papua. But it is also threatened... ...

Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General talks about economics and the need to change the status quo. ...

This week’s deal should be congratulated but economic and ecological discussions should always be used as opportunities to raise human rights concerns. ...