Akali Tange Association
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| Purpose | Community advocacy, human rights |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Porgera |
Executive Officer | McDiyan Robert Yapari |
| Website | https://sites.google.com/site/akalitange/ |
Akali Tange Association Inc is a human rights focused landowner's association based in Porgera, Papua New Guinea that advocates for community interests where multinational mines operate.[1][2][3]
Organisation
[edit]Membership includes the relatives of more than twenty deceased "illegal miners" who have been killed near the Porgera Joint Venture.[4]
In 2006, the organisation's Executive Officer was Jethro Tulin,[5] and as of 2017, it was McDiyan Robert Yapari.[6]
History
[edit]In April 2005, Akali Tange published The Shooting Fields of Porgera Joint Venture documenting allegations of ongoing assaults and murders of local residents by the security contractors of Porgera Gold Mine.[1][7][8] They shared the 163 page report with MiningWatch Canada.[1] Catherine Coumans of MiningWatch Canada described the report as gruesome and credible. The report expanded the scope of concern of activists from only environmental to also human rights.[1]
The report led to an admission from Placer Dome that their security guards and local police killed eight Papua New Guineans.[8] This led to a 2006 public commission. However, the results were not made public.[8]
In 2007, Akali Tange joined the Porgera Landowners Association to form the Porgera Alliance organization.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "MINING #7 - Barrick and the Cruelty of Gold". CANADALAND. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
- ^ "PNG does deal with 'devil' it knows over gold mine". FijiTimes. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
- ^ McSheffrey, Elizabeth; April 25th 2017 (25 April 2017). "Mining violence survivors demand justice in Toronto". Canada's National Observer. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ KUMBON, DANIEL. "Pressure on for mining review". Post-Courier. Papua New Guinea.
- ^ KOLO, P. (14 June 2006). "Porgera mine probe welcomed". Guinea Post - Courier. ProQuest 375849696.
- ^ "McDiyan Robert Yapari". Front Line Defenders. 2017-07-31. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
- ^ Bainton, Nicholas; Owen, John R.; Skrzypek, Emilia E. (2021). "Afterword: States of Uncertainty". In Bainton, Nicholas A.; Skrzypek, Emilia E. (eds.). The Absent Presence of the State in Large-Scale Resource Extraction Projects. ANU Press. pp. 347–359. doi:10.22459/AP.2021. hdl:20.500.12657/50771. ISBN 978-1-76046-449-3.
- ^ a b c Coumans, Catherine (April 2011). "Occupying Spaces Created by Conflict: Anthropologists, Development NGOs, Responsible Investment, and Mining". Current Anthropology. 52 (S3): S29–S43. doi:10.1086/656473. S2CID 153606473.
- ^ Manning, Susan M. (October 2016). "Intersectionality in resource extraction: a case study of sexual violence at the Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea". International Feminist Journal of Politics. 18 (4): 574–589. doi:10.1080/14616742.2016.1189670. S2CID 148323549.