Today is international human rights day, and the United Nations, USAid and AusAID are inviting us all to celebrate in the home of PNG’s worst human rights abuser, Rimbunan Hijau.
Vision City is a glittering monument to the human rights abuses, illegal logging, land grabbing and environmental destruction heaped on PNG for over 25 years by its owner, the Malaysian logging giant RH.
The Vision City celebration is being sponsored by the CIMC, AusAID and USAid, who all like to trumpet their supposed opposition to corruption and belief in human rights – what a joke!
Rimbunan Hijau’s abuses have been documented in numerous reports and investigations including by the Ombudsman Commission, SABL Commission of Inquiry, World Bank, Greenpeace, Global Witness and Oakland Institute and SBS.
