MINING & COVID 19
Aid/Watch joined over 300+ organisations globally in contributing and signing on to the ‘Global Solidarity with Communities, Indigenous Peoples and Workers at Risk from Mining Pandemic Profiteers’ statement
JOINT LETTER: Global Social Protection Fund needed to provide basic services for all working people
A Joint Letter to Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senator Marise Payne calling for a Global Social Protection Fund
Lynas or lies?
“Simply put, Lynas has never had a social licence to operate – this would never be allowed here in Australia.”
NGOs Ask Australia to Suspend Lynas’ Rare Earth Export to its Malaysian Plant
Friends of the Earth Australia, AID/WATCH, together with Australian chapters of Malaysian BERSIH Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections and Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia Melbourne (SABMOZ) have responded to a petition that has gained momentum in Malaysia demanding that Australia suspends Lynas’ rare earth export to Malaysia because Lynas has no safe disposal facility for its radioactive waste.
Human Rights Defender: ABC Radio National Wantok program
AID/WATCH partner from the Paga Hill community and human rights defender Allan Mogerama talks to Hilda Wayne on ABC Radio National’s Wantok program about his community’s ongoing #Justice4Paga campaign that seeks redress for the human rights violations they have faced with the illegal eviction of their informal settlement, and compensation for their homes that were demolished by two Australian companies, the Paga Hill Development Company and Curtain Brothers and the PNG State.
Julie Bishop accused of breaching standards with new aid job
“I really do question whether this should happen it undermines the integrity of the aid program interns of the extent to which it is seen to not be delivering on its purpose which is to offer development assistance.“ James Goodman, Chair of AID/WATCH