The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies together with The Australia West Papua Association are pleased to present:
John Rumbiak PUBLIC LECTURE "Current issues for West Papua" Date/Time: Monday 17th February, 6.00pm for 6.30 sharp - 8.00pm Venue: The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Mackie Bldg K01 (Uni Sydney), Arundel St, Glebe (near the footbridge across Parramatta Rd and turn left) Light refreshment will be served. This will be a chance to meet with John Rumbiak who is visiting Sydney for a short time before going to Melbourne for the much anticipated �Morning Star Concert�. The talk will be an update on the main issues currently facing the West Papuan people including the various responses to the Freeport Massacre, The ELSHAM initiated �Zone of Peace� and other areas of pressing concern. John Rumbiak is Papua's best-known human rights advocate. He was born in Biak in 1962. He studied linguistics at Cenderawasih University in Jayapura in the 1980s, and since then has worked in several non- government organisations concerned with human rights. John is currently Supervisor of ELSHAM, the West Papuan Institute for Human Rights Study and Advocacy, in Jayapura. In 1999 he studied human rights advocacy at Columbia University, New York, USA. Early in 2001 he spoke about human rights and democracy in West Papua on an extensive tour of Europe (including the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva) and the US. Please RSVP by Friday 14th February: CPACS: ph (02) 9351 7686, fax 9660 0862, or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joe Collins (AWPA): ph/fax (02) 9960 1698, or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.morningstarconcert.com/ -- + from MELBOURNE: Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 12:20 PM From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Roundtable with John Rumbiak A Special Roundtable with John Rumbiak, Coordinator of the Elsham - the Insitute for the Study and Advocacy of Human Rights - is organised for 6pm Wednesday the 26th February in Trades Hall. John Rumbiak is one of the leading voices in West Papua. A courageous man who continually puts his life on the line for justice and the defence of human dignity. He is currently in the U.S after recieving death threats for investigating the August 2002 shootings at Freeport mine. Please note that the Roundtable will take place immediately following the forum on West Papua organised at RMIT. The Roundtable will be held in the Ballroom behind the bar and not in the usual venues - the Annex or Evatt room. We hope to see you all there! Jason for the Free West Papua Collective ===== ____________________ Free West Papua ! Papua Merdeka ! -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
