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London, May 3 : Tribal rights body Survival International has launched a tourism boycott of India's Andaman Islands, until the degrading practice of 'human safaris' to the 400-strong Jarawa tribe is stopped.
The tribal rights organization is calling on the 200,000 tourists visiting the islands every year to stay away - until tourists are banned from the road through the Jarawa's forest and an alternative sea route is put in place.
Survival has written to over 200 travel companies and websites in eleven countries urging them to stop their tours to the Andaman Islands, and will place ads targeted at tourists to discourage them from visiting the popular travel destination. Survival is also asking members of the public to pledge not to travel to the islands until the demands are met.
Hundreds of tourists from India and around the world travel along the illegal Andaman Trunk Road every day to ogle at members of the Jarawa tribe, a practice which Survival describes as "treating them like animals in a safari park."
Survival said it had asked Enmai, a young Jarawaa, how he felt when outsiders took pictures of him, and he said, "I don't feel good. I don't like it when they take photos from their vehicles."
India's Supreme Court banned tourists from the road for seven weeks, reducing the traffic along the Andaman Trunk Road by two thirds. But the ban was lifted after the Islands' authorities changed their own regulations in order to let the 'human safaris' continue, said Survival.
The tours have been widely condemned both in India and around the world. India's Minister for Tribal Affairs called them 'disgraceful' and 'an embarrassment', and last year, in response to a submission by Survival, the United Nations expressed their 'deep concern' about the 'human safaris' and called for the illegal road to be closed.
Survival's Director Stephen Corry said, 'The Andaman government is arguing that the road is a necessary lifeline for the north of the islands. It's nonsense: in fact there's no reason for the road. The route by boat is faster, more convenient and cheaper for islanders, so providing an alternative sea route is better for locals, tourists, and the Jarawa alike. There will be no end to these degrading human safaris until tourists stop using the road, and we'll continue the boycott until that happens."
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Survival Launches Tourism Boycott of Indias Andaman Islands
Survival International has today launched a tourism boycott of Indias Andaman Islands, until the degrading practice of human safaris to the 400-strong Jarawa tribe is stopped.
The tribal rights organization is calling on the 200,000 tourists visiting the islands every year to stay away until tourists are banned from the road through the Jarawas forest and an alternative sea route is put in place.
Survival has written to over 200 travel companies and websites in eleven countries urging them to stop their tours to the Andaman Islands, and will place ads targeted at tourists to discourage them from visiting the popular travel destination. Survival is also asking members of the public to pledge not to travel to the islands until the demands are met.
Hundreds of tourists from India and around the world travel along the illegal Andaman Trunk Road every day to ogle at members of the Jarawa tribe treating them like animals in a safari park.When asked how he felt when outsiders took pictures of him, Enmai, a young Jarawa, said, I dont feel good. I dont like it when they take photos from their vehicles.
Earlier this year, Indias Supreme Court banned tourists from the road for seven weeks, reducing the traffic along the Andaman Trunk Road by two thirds. But the ban was lifted after the Islands authorities changed their own regulations in order to let the human safaris continue.
The tours have been widely condemned both in India and around the world. Indias Minister for Tribal Affairs called them disgraceful and an embarrassment, and last year, in response to a submission by Survival, the United Nations expressed their deep concern about the human safaris and called for the illegal road to be closed.
Survivals Director Stephen Corry said today, The Andaman government is arguing that the road is a necessary lifeline for the north of the islands. Its nonsense: in fact theres no reason for the road. The route by boat is faster, more convenientand cheaper for islanders, so providing an alternative sea route is better for locals, tourists, and the Jarawa alike. There will be no end to these degrading human safaris until tourists stop using the road, and well continue the boycott until that happens.
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CSU Channel Islands will remain closed Friday, a day after officials evacuated the Camarillo campus and the nearby University Glen neighborhood after they were threatened by the Springs fire.
Friday typically is a light day for academic classes, said university spokeswoman Nancy Gill. It makes sense at this point.
Students who live on campus were not allowed back Thursday night and all student housing remained closed, Gill said. About 15 Channel Islands students are staying at a nearby Red Cross shelter, she said. University Glen, however, was reopened to residents late Thursday.
When the campus decided to evacuate Thursday morning, officials were mostly concerned about smoke from the nearby fire. Just four hours later, 20-foot flames had spread to the campus, leaving hills and newly-planted landscaping charred, but no buildings burned.
The evacuations were announced in emails, texts, Facebook posts and by loudspeaker in class. Student Heidi Ahmed, about to join the long stream of cars leaving campus, was more worried about the upcoming week than the smoke blowing over her.
Theres a lot going on at school next week, she said. Its the week before finals.
As the fire burned, University Glen resident Alan Penn and others stood on Lewis Road watching flames snake along the hill next to campus.
Penn and his wife rushed home from their jobs in Thousand Oaks to evacuate, but emergency personnel had stopped letting anyone into the neighborhood.
I have a dog and cat at home, and my windows are open, Penn said. My fear is that theyll get consumed by smoke.
On campus, firefighters put out two small fires, sparked by embers landing in pine needles on the roofs of empty buildings. Another building was in the path of the fire, but firefighters put out the blaze before it caused any damage.
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ISLANDS Stay Hotels, the no-frills, value chic hotel of The Islands Group, recently opened its newest franchise branch in Puerto Princesa, Palawan.
Attending the opening of the new branch were Ellen Hagedorn, wife of Puerto Princesa Mayor Edward Hagedorn, franchisee Janet Concepcion and The Islands Group executive vice president and chief culture officer Camille Aldeguer.
Members of the media, public officials and some leaders of the travel and hospitality industry in Palawan were also present during the event.
Puerto Princesa, Palawan is a beautiful place and we are happy to finally have a presence there. Now, visitors of Palawan can experience Islands Stay Hotels, a value hotel shaped by its brand of service, said Jay Aldeguer, founder and chairman of The Islands Group.
Islands Stay Hotels Puerto Princesa, Palawan is located just along Puerto Princesas main road, a five-minute walk from the airport. (PR)
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Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI.PH) said Thursday first-quarter net profit rose 43% from the year-earlier period, helped by double-digit growth in loans and gains on securities trading.
BPI, the Philippines' third-largest lender by assets, posted a net profit of 8.4 billion Philippine pesos ($204 million) in the January-March quarter, up from PHP5.88 billion in the year-earlier period.
The bank said in a statement that net loans reached PHP514 billion at the end of the first quarter, up 19% from the same period a year earlier. It added that total revenue was up 21% because of a "favorable market condition" that allowed the bank to book gains in securities trading.
Operating costs reached PHP6.6 billion, up 7% on year.
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Post-conflict trauma haunts Solomon Islands By Catherine Wilson
HONIARA, Solomon Islands - After 10 years of working towards peace and reconciliation in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, following a five-year civil conflict known as the "Tensions" (1998-2003) which left 30,000 people displaced and hundreds unaccounted for, people now go about their daily lives in improved freedom and personal security.
Below the surface, untreated post-conflict trauma continues to impact many individuals and communities. Robert (name
"There is pain in my heart when I remember men with high-powered guns coming into the community at night and grabbing a young child, dragging him away from his parents," he said. Robert still hears the child, who was never seen again, screaming for his parents.
The Solomon Islands is an ethnically and culturally diverse nation comprising more than 900 islands east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Fiji. The economic downturn and rising unemployment in the late 1990s and crime contributed to escalating grievances by the indigenous Gwales of the main island Guadalcanal against large numbers of migrants from Malaita, a heavily populated island 100 kilometers to the east.
In 1998, the Gwale-led Isatabu Freedom Movement began evicting Malaitan settlers, alleging they were encroaching on land, resources and jobs on Guadalcanal. Armed warfare followed when the Malaita Eagle Force, formed in defense, began to retaliate. Despite a peace agreement brokered by Australia in 2000, violence continued until the arrival of the peacekeeping Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands at the request of the government in 2003.
Today state infrastructure and services that were destroyed or damaged are slowly being restored, but healing minds will take much longer.
"There are people whose lives are haunted, they roam around town, they are silent; they are traumatized. They don't want to participate in any form of development," Reuben Lilo, director of Peace and Reconciliation at the Ministry of National Unity, Peace and Reconciliation, told IPS.
There are no available statistics on the extent of post-conflict trauma in the Solomon Islands. However, a social impact assessment by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat in 2004 revealed that 75% of female and 73% of male respondents suffered personal trauma as a result of experiencing rape, death of relatives, threats and intimidation, destruction of homes and villages and being held at gunpoint.
Jack Kaota, a clinical mental health consultant at the National Psychiatric Unit in Auki, Malaita Province, told IPS that he had seen an increase in numbers of young people, especially since 2000, afflicted with substance abuse, and there was a connection with the legacy of the conflict.
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RAROTONGA, COOK ISLANDS (2 MAY 2012) A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed today by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Government of the Cook Islands, and the white goods retailers-Motor Centre and the Cook Islands Trading Corporation Ltd. The MOU supports the Fridge and Freezer Replacement Program which is one of several energy efficiency projects being developed and implemented under the Promoting Energy Efficiency in the Pacific-Phase 2 Project.
The project, co-financed by: ADB, the Government of Australia, the Global Environment Facility and the Asian Clean Energy Fund under the Clean Energy Financing Partnership aims to reduce energy consumption in the residential, commercial and public sectors through the implementation of energy efficiency measures, and to establish policy frameworks to help Cook Islands move away from fossil fuel dependency.
The Fridge and Freezer Replacement Program will encourage households to replace their old inefficient fridge/freezer (5 years or older) with high energy efficient models. The program, financed by ADB, will subsidize participating retailers in the Cook Islands, enabling them to sell new high energy efficient fridge/freezers at the market price of a low energy efficient one.
Its estimated that around 40% of household electricity costs in Cook Islands is for refrigeration, said Martina Tonizzo, Project Team Leader from ADBs Pacific Department. By using an energy efficient fridge, the average household would save around NZ$200 to NZ$300 per year on electricity.
The program will reduce electricity consumption in the Cook Islands by promoting high energy efficient fridge/freezers. Under the program, the retailers will offer rebates between NZ$150 and NZ$500 to customers purchasing selected high efficient fridge/freezer models, in exchange for their old, working low efficient fridge/freezer of similar capacity.
The fridge/freezer replacement program aims to initially cover 325 households in Cook Islands over a one year period. It is expected, the program will quickly transform the fridge/freezer market from low energy efficient to high energy efficient models, resulting in a reduction of electricity consumption of approximately 20-30% for each participating household. Significant cost savings in household electricity bills and increased awareness of energy appliance labeling and the benefits of using energy efficient appliances are also expected benefits of the program.
ADB, based in Manila, is dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific through inclusive economic growth, environmentally sustainable growth and regional integration. Established in 1966, it is owned by 67 members 48 from the region. In 2012, ADB assistance totaled $21.6 billion, including cofinancing of $8.3 billion.
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The tribal rights groups, Survival International, on Tuesday launched a tourism boycott of Andaman Islands urging tourists not to visit the Islands until the ``degrading practice of ``human safaris was stopped.
It said that hundreds of tourists from India and around the world travelled along the illegal Andaman Trunk Road every day to ogle at members of the Jarawa tribe treating them like animals in a safari park.
The tours have been widely condemned both in India and around the world Earlier this year, the Supreme Court banned tourists from the road for seven weeks reducing the traffic along the Andaman Trunk Road by two-thirds. But the ban was lifted after the Islands authorities changed their own regulations in order to let the human safaris continue, the organisation said.
It said it was calling on the 200,000 tourists visiting the islands every year to stay away until an alternative sea route was put in place. It had also written to more than 200 international travel operators urging them to stop their tours to the Andaman Islands.
The Andaman Government is arguing that the road is a necessary lifeline for the north of the islands. It is nonsense: in fact, theres no reason for the road. The route by boat is faster, more convenientand cheaper for islanders, so providing an alternative sea route is better for locals, tourists, and the Jarawa alike. There will be no end to these degrading human safaris until tourists stop using the road, and well continue the boycott until that happens, Survivals director Stephen Corry said.
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The Government of Solomon Islands Supports WPNCL Full Membership of MSG
24th April 2013
During the meeting with Prime Minister of Solomon Island, Rt.Hon.Gordon Darcy Lilo MP on 24th April. It becomes apparent that the government of Solomon Islands will support to put West Papua on the agenda for the next MSG meeting in Noumea in June this year and Full Membership of the WPNCL to MSG.
West Papuan delegation consisted of Dr. Otto Ondawame, Vice Chairman of the WPNCL, Mr.Rex Rumakiek-Secretary General of the WPNCL and Mr. Andy Ayamiseba, Head WPNCL Mission to Vanuatu. But Mr. Barak T Sope Maautamate, the former Prime Minister of Vanuatu and adviser to the WPNCl could not come this time for technical reasons.
In his opening remarks, Dr Ondawame express his sincere appreciation and gratitude to the Government and people of Solomon Islands for their endless support given to the aspiration of Independence of the people of West Papua. And also their support for full membership of WPNCL in the MSG.
On 25th April, the delegation met Speaker of the Parliament, Sir Allen Kemakeza. The speaker expressed his full support for the plight of the people of West Papua and committed to raising the issue in the Solomon Islands Parliament. At the meting, the delegation asked for Solomon Islands Parliament to support the call for West Papua becomes Melanesian issue.
Prime Minister Of The Solomon Islands Assured Wpncl Of Support For MSG Membeship. Rt. Hon. Prime Minister. Gordon Dalcy Lilo met a delegation from the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation on 24 April 3013. The leaders of WPNCL were in the country to seek Solomon Islands support for their application to become member of the MSG. The delegation is consisted of Dr. John Otto Ondawame, Vice Chairman, Mr. Rex Rumakiek, Secretary General and Mr. Andy Ayamiseba, Head of WPNCL Mission to Vanuatu. Two other members of the delegation, Ms. Paula Makabory, human rights activist and Mr. Barak T. Sope Maautamate, former Prime Minister and adviser to WPNCL could not join the delegation due to technical problems. The delegation was, accompanied by Mr. Ian Ronnie, President of Solomons for West Papua Group.
PM Lilo assured the visiting Papuan leaders of his support for West Papua to become a member of the MSG. He further stated that he will request the inclusion of West Papua on the agenda of next MSG summit in Noumea. PM. LIlo ALSO stressed the need for Melanesian countries to assist fellow Melanesians of West Papua to achieve their right of self-determination peacefully. He reiterated the fact that the West Papuan struggle has taken 50 yeas; it is time to resolve it he said.
On behalf of WPNCL and the people of West Papua Dr. John Otto Ondawame stated, I would like to express our gratitude and sincere appreciation to you and the people of the Solomon Islands for your continuing support to our struggle for self-determination and independence. Dr. Ondawame also stated that being a member with the support of MSG is crucial for WPNCL efforts to take the issue back to the United Nations.
PM Lilo agreed that the UN solution should be the ultimate agenda because self-determination for West Papua as stipulated in 1969 is incomplete. The International community must be made aware of this fact.
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