Akali Tange Association

Akali Tange Association Inc is a human rights focused landowner's association based in Porgera, Papua New Guinea that advocates for community interests where multinational mines operate.[1][2][3]

Akali Tange Association Inc.
PurposeCommunity advocacy, human rights
HeadquartersPorgera
Executive Officer
McDiyan Robert Yapari
Websitehttps://sites.google.com/site/akalitange/

Akali Tange is led by Executive Officer McDiyan Robert Yapari.[4]

History

In April 2005 Akali Tange published The Shooting Fields of Porgera Joint Venture documenting allegations of ongoing assaults and murders of local residents by the security contractors of Porgera Gold Mine.[1][5][6] They shared the 163 page report with MiningWatch Canada.[1] Catherine Coumans of MiningWatch Canada described the report as gruesome and credible. The report expanded the scope of concern of activists from only environmental to also human rights.[1]

The report led to an admission from Placer Dome that their security guards and local police killed eight Papua New Guineans.[6] This led to a 2006 public commission, although the results were not made public.[6]

In 2007 Akali Tange joined the Porgera Landowners Association to form the Porgera Alliance organization.[7]

References
  1. "MINING #7 - Barrick and the Cruelty of Gold". CANADALAND. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  2. "PNG does deal with 'devil' it knows over gold mine". FijiTimes. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  3. News, Elizabeth McSheffrey; April 25th 2017. "Mining violence survivors demand justice in Toronto". Canada's National Observer. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  4. "McDiyan Robert Yapari". Front Line Defenders. 2017-07-31. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
  5. Bainton, Nicholas, John R. Owen, and Emilia E. Skrzypek. "Afterword: States of Uncertainty." THE ABSENT PRESENCE (2021): 347.
  6. Coumans, Catherine (2011-04-01). "Occupying Spaces Created by Conflict: Anthropologists, Development NGOs, Responsible Investment, and Mining: with CA comment by Stuart Kirsch". Current Anthropology. 52 (S3): S29–S43. doi:10.1086/656473. ISSN 0011-3204.
  7. Manning, Susan M. (2016-10-01). "Intersectionality in resource extraction: a case study of sexual violence at the Porgera mine in Papua New Guinea". International Feminist Journal of Politics. 18 (4): 574–589. doi:10.1080/14616742.2016.1189670. ISSN 1461-6742.
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