Antinuclear

Aborigines take coalmine worries to United Nations bodies and corporations

https://linksunten.indymedia.org/en/node/156417 Diet Simon, Linksunten Indymedia: 
Account: Nuclear Worrier 20 Oct 15:
“Aborigines … have taken their worry that a planned  coalmine will destroy [their ancestral country] … to several United Nations bodies and business corporations.  The month-old right-of-centre Australian government has  just re-approved the Carmichael mine the Indian Adani  company, which has an appalling environmental and human  rights record, wants to operate alongside the Reef in  central-western Queensland. It would be Australia’s biggest  coalmine and one of the biggest in the world.

The Wangan and Jagalingou people are asking the  UN Special Rapporteur on cultural rights, the
UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the UN Working Group on human rights, transnational corporations and other business enterprises to help them resist the mine. … “

October 23, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News