The logging of human rights in PNG
Multinational logging companies operating in Papua New Guinea are involved in widespread human rights abuses, political corruption and the brutal suppression of workers, women and opponents, according to a new report.
'Bulldozing progress: Human rights abuses and corruption in PNG's large scale logging industry' is a report by the Centre for Environmental Law & Community Rights (CELCOR) and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF).
Interviews with landowners reveal disturbing eyewitness accounts of arbitrary detention and physical brutality by police 'moonlighting' for logging companies; intimidation and abuse of women; contamination of food and water sources; unjust working conditions; and destruction of cultural sites, artefacts and graves.
