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2045 and Beyond: Will ASEAN Leaders Prioritise Environmental and Human Rights or a Dirty Economy?
6 Oct 2024 – As the region’s leaders chart the way ahead via ASEAN Vision 2045, it is imperative to ensure that human rights are at the forefront. We urge…
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South Sumatran Residents Sue Plantation Companies Over Peatland Smoke Haze
South Sumatran residents attended Palembang District Court this morning to register a lawsuit against three plantation companies over the chronic smoke haze that has blighted their lives.
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Papuan Indigenous Activists Present Quarter-Million Signatures to Supreme Court
Brandishing shields, bows, and legal dossiers, Auyu environmental warriors today took the fight for their traditional land from the forests of South Papua into a Jakarta courtroom.
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Fashioning a sustainable future
Fast fashion, the darling of the high street, is turning out to be a faux pas. While it democratizes fashion, it also weaves a problem that is comparable to oil and gas in terms of global pollution: the waste that it generates.
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ASEAN urged to provide implementing guidelines to protect Southeast Asian migrant fishers and ratify C-188
The ASEAN Declaration on the Placement and Protection of Migrant Fishers is an important first step towards eradicating forced labour and human rights abuses in the fishing industry, but the declaration needs to be actualised in order to make a difference. Together with Team 9, we want ASEAN to move the discussion forward and provide…
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Tricked and Failed
I could only hope that the Indonesian government finally hears our cries for help and acts on our behalf to strictly enforce laws to end the cycle of abuse. Don’t let any more migrant fishers fall victim to injustice. It should end with me.
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Roadmap For Recommendations For the Ratification of Work in Fishing Convention, 2007
In June 2007, the International Labour Organization (ILO) created the Work in Fishing Convention (No. 188). The ILO C-188 was aimed at ensuring decent working conditions for fishers aboard fishing…
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The journey towards migrant workers’ protection in Southeast Asia
Efforts to protect migrant fishing workers is much like climbing in the Himalayas. Very high. Very tough. Very distant.
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International Women’s Day: Greenpeace joins fishers demanding women’s rights and access to sea
In time for International Women's Day, Greenpeace and allies call for communities to have preferential access to coastal areas, that they should co-manage these, and that women workers’ active contribution to this process must be guaranteed.
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How trustworthy are seafood brands…really?
For groups that have spent years monitoring and documenting human rights abuses in the seafood supply chain, it comes as no surprise that despite the claims and promises from seafood brands meant to instill consumer trust and confidence, that is not always the case.