LOGGING

The social, cultural, environmental, economic and political rapes of forest destruction are dealt with here.

Leaked Samling document acknowledges timber group's role in Penan rape cases
Leaked Samling document acknowledges timber group's role in sexual exploitation of Penan women. Logging giant is prohibiting all employees from entering Penan villages or providing transport to Penan ......
14 Sep 2010

Samling threatens Penan with retaliations over rape allegations
Logging giant threatens to suspend all transport services for locals unless Penan retract sexual abuse allegations.
30 Aug 2010

The Dam completed!
The first series, The Dam, has been completed. The last episode, You Can’t Eat The Road, went online late April.
02 Jun 2010

Rainforest advocate Bruno Manser has been missing for ten years
Distinguished speakers remember the missing Swiss human rights activist at a commemoration ceremony in his native city of Basel.
25 May 2010

Penan score victory over Borneo loggers
LONG SABAI, SARAWAK / MALAYSIA. Two logging road blockades erected by Penan communities have caused a Malaysian timber giant, Samling, to withdraw its bulldozers from the rainforests on the upper ......
26 Apr 2010

EU-Malaysia Cooperation on logging continues to neglect indigenous land rights
The on-going negotiations between Malaysia and the European Union (EU) to enter into a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) on the Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) has virtually ......
15 Apr 2010

Penan step up campaign to defend Heart of Borneo nature reserve
LONG SABAI, SARAWAK / MALAYSIA. Penan natives from Sarawak's Upper Baram region in the Malaysian part of Borneo have erected two logging road blockades to prevent their last remaining virgin jungle ......
06 Apr 2010

Thugs ‘threaten’ NCR landowners over logging dispute
ULU BALINGIAN – Gangsters seems to be running the show on the current native customary land dispute between a logging company, Bitani Maju Sdn. Bhd. and the Iban communties of Sungai Tepus, Ulu ......
05 Apr 2010

How Ketuanan Melayu has dispossessed the Orang Asli
COMMENT: Malaysia is the Asia-Pacific’s “best model” in dealing with the rights of indigenous peoples – or so it is claimed. Last Saturday (incidentally the same day Dr Mahathir Mohamad launched the ......
02 Apr 2010

Rosmah Mansor: Will she? Won't she?
It is no longer about the Penan girls and the timber workers who raped them. Actually, it is about the rape of our system of administration of justice.
09 Mar 2010