TAPOL News Archive

As Secretary-General Visits Timor-Leste, Rights Groups Urge His Leadership for Justice and Accountability
13 December 2007 - Rights groups call on UN Secretary General to work for justice

Human rights defenders at risk in Papua
30 November 2007 - TAPOL article

26 November 2007 - Open letter to security council and press release

Garuda officials indicted for Munir’s murder
24 November 2007 - TAPOL article

Safeguarding peace in Aceh
23 November 2007 - TAPOL article

Indonesia - Democracy without justice
November 2007 - Carmel Budiardjo of TAPOL interviewed by Peter Tatchell

TAPOL calls for the release of West Papuan rights activist
30 October 2007 - TAPOL press release

Pacific leaders urged to discuss intimidation of Papuan activists
9 October 2007 - TAPOL press release - TAPOL issues an open briefing to the leaders of Pacific Island countries, including Australia and New Zealand, calling on them to devote special attention to the plight of West Papuan human rights defenders at the annual meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum.

Book review - Pretext for mass murder
13 August 2007 - TAPOL book review - of John Roosa's, 'Pretext for Mass Murder: The September 30th Movement and Suharto’s Coup d’Etat in Indonesia'

Biak to become a military base for Eastern Indonesia
31 May 2007 - TAPOL translation of a statement by ELSHAM (Institute for Human Rights Studies and Advocacy for Papua), Biak.

Timor-Leste: Commission of Truth and Friendship
23 May 2007 - Rights groups call for end to farcical Commission

British arms company enjoys impunity
9 May 2007 - TAPOL article - Two apparently unrelated events that together raise important questions about the West’s responsibility for conflicts in the world’s poorest countries are being held in London today.

Implementation of Chega!, the report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation, CAVR.
14 March 2007 - Letter calling for the Timor-Leste National Parliament to formally consider Chega!

A Papuan perspective
14 March 2007 – Article on the deployment of military equipment to West Papua

Recollections of 13 Women Detained and Tortured after October 1965
8 March 2007 - Book Review - Kembang Kembang Genjer, (Genjer Flowers) by Fransisca Ria Susanti.

Rights for women take a tumble
27 February 2007 - TAPOL article - a review of the current state of women's rights in Indonesia.

Resounding victory for democracy in Aceh
14 January 2007 - TAPOL Bulletin article - analysis of the recent elections held in Aceh.

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