human rights

Honduras Coup Update - May 2012

(see full version here http://www.sydney-says-no2honduras-coup.net/much-shorter-monthly-version...)

There was a sudden surge of political killings during May. There were at least nine political assassinations.

- Support the resistence fight of the indigenenous people from Xingu and Teles Pires Rivers in the Amazon Forest - They are suffering state and farmers violence, treat by the mega-damns, and other projects, in a conspiration of silence; It’s time to let the voice of those who have something to say be heard! -

We are asking your support to help the noble representatives of the Mebengokré (Kayapó), Yudjá (Juruna), Kayabi, Trumai, Tapayuna, Panará, Apyaká, Terena from Iririr and Guarani from Pyakabana peoples travel to Rio+20/ People’s Summit, which starts next week in Rio de Janeiro.

FOR THE BETTER PART of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a Mercury News investigation has found.

RAC Press Release - 14/5/2012 A Tamil man who was on the Oceanic Viking has attempted suicide in Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation in Broadmeadows overnight. Jasee is the third Tamil with a negative ASIO security clearance to try and take his own life this month. Tamils in this situation face a life of indefinite detention, unable to be returned to Sri Lanka as they have been recognised as refugees, but the Immigration Department refuse to release genuine refugees if they have unappealable negative security clearances from ASIO.