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Winning Silverbacks rugby sevens team to promote ACT NOW! campaigns

On 23 Nov, 2017 By ACTNOW

The Silverbacks rugby sevens team has been presented with training tops and t-shirts bearing the ACT NOW! name and logo in recognition of their successful run through several Port Moresby tournaments.

The team will be wearing the tops at training and in their pre-game warm ups to promote ACT NOW! and it campaigns to the rugby crazy community in the Nation’s capital.

Pomio locals mobilise to stop logging giant

On 06 Nov, 2017 By ACTNOW

Photo shows an earlier (December 2016) protest by people in Pomata against logging

Malaysian logging giant Rimbunan Hijau (RH) is continuing it's efforts to log in the Pomata SABL area in the Pomio District. Local people say this is despite a court decision ordering all logging operations to stop pending the outcome of a court challenge to the logging permit.

PNG Farmers Fight Back Against Foreign Land Grab

On 31 Oct, 2017 By ACTNOW

By D. Amari Jackson - Atlanta Black Star

Resource owners in West Pomio SABL say they have not benefited as claimed by RH

On 27 Oct, 2017 By ACTNOW

Picture taken at Rali Camp, Pomata, Pomio District

Resource owners in the West Pomio SABL areas have not benefited from logging and oil palm planting on their stolen land as claimed by Rimbunan Hijau.

The resource owners say a statement by RH Group Executive Director Ivan Lu published on 14^th September 2017 is false and untrue.

SABL: A Misconceived Development Perception

On 19 Oct, 2017 By ACTNOW

Source: Centre For Environmental Law and Community Rights

The rural population of Papua New Guinea have long suffered at the hands of both foreign and national developers. This short documentary film captures the environmental injustice and human rights violation being experienced by the communities, living in the Special Agriculture Business Leases (SABL) project site of Pomio and Kairak in the East New Britain Province.

Bewani ILG Chairmen 'assaulted and forced to sign SABL agreements'

On 06 Oct, 2017 By ACTNOW

“Our houses were torn down, and we were beaten and threatened to cooperate with the company’s demands. Our MP Beldan Namah initiated the project, and so was leading in all that.”

That’s from Jack Luke, an Incorporated Land Group (ILG) Chairman from the Bewani Oil Palm Plantation in the West Sepik (Sandaun) Province.

SABL land grab dividing families

On 04 Oct, 2017 By ACTNOW

Anna Kwembi from Elis village of Bewani in the West Sepik Province is not fond of the experiences and changes the Malaysian logging company, operating under a Special Agriculture Business Lease, has brought to her area, and its impacts on her and her family. Like many others ActNow! has come across while investigating the Bewani area, Anna is struggling to keep the logging company out of her family’s land area, but she’s struggling alone.

SABL logger cheating Bewani locals

On 13 Sep, 2017 By ACTNOW

“What little I get from my royalty payments I give back to the logging company because most business houses in Vanimo town, including the only supermarket are owned by the logging company. Moreover, the company cheats me by claiming money from my royalty payments”

That’s from Emap Itep of Aimbai village in Bewani, West Sepik Province.

Police and army accused of serving SABL loggers

On 07 Sep, 2017 By ACTNOW

Peter Tai is the Chief of Aimbai village, one of 26 villages in Bewani, West Sepik Province. Just like the other people Act Now! met in Bewani, Chief Peter had no knowledge that Malaysian logging companies would be taking over their land, until they arrived.

Government accused of lying over SABL land grab

On 31 Aug, 2017 By ACTNOW

ACT NOW! has accused the government of lying to the nation over the SABL land grab and says people across the country will be angry and disappointed.

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