Auf Leid von Menschen und Natur gebaut

 

• Umweltaktivist*innen demonstrieren bei Aktionärsversammlung von HeidelbergCement gegen Klimaschäden und Menschenrechtsverletzungen des Zementherstellers

 

Anlässlich der Hauptversammlung des Baustoff-Konzerns HeidelbergCement beteiligen sich Aktivist*innen von ROBIN WOOD und Watch Indonesia! heute Vormittag in Heidelberg an den breiten Protesten gegen die klimaschädliche und menschenrechtsverletzende Produktionsweise des Konzerns. Aufgerufen zur Demonstration hatte Fridays for Future Heidelberg. Vor Ort präsentieren ROBIN WOOD und Watch Indonesia! eine mobile Ausstellung mit großformatigen Postern und Informationen zu Umwelt- und Menschenrechts-Freveln von HeidelbergCement. Zudem entrollten Kletter*innen zwischen Masten vor dem ... read more

Posted on 05:33 PM in Activities, Joint Press Releases & Statements, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Mining, Press Releases, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: mining, Germany, HeidelbergCement, indigenous people, Kendeng, land rights, human rights, environment and climate, Zentraljava

HeidelbergCement untergräbt Klimaschutz und Menschenrechte

 

• Ausbeutung von Menschen und Ressourcen durch Betonriesen
• Aufruf zur Achtung indigener Rechte und des Völkerrechts in Indonesien, Westsahara und Westjordanland

 

Pressemitteilung

Heidelberg, 03.06.2020. Zur virtuellen Hauptversammlung von HeidelbergCement werden morgen Umwelt-, Friedens- und Menschenrechtsorganisationen, darunter Fridays for Future, Watch Indonesia!, ROBIN WOOD und pax christi gegen die Unternehmenspolitik des Baustoffkonzerns protestieren.

 

HeidelbergCement unter Deutschlands klimaschädlichsten Unternehmen

Nach RWE ist HeidelbergCement derzeit das klimaschädlichste Unternehmen im DAX. Wenn alle Unternehmen bis 2050 eine Klimabilanz wie die von HeidelbergCement hätten, würde sich das Klima laut der ... read more

Posted on 01:13 PM in Activities, Economy, Labor & Corruption, Joint Press Releases & Statements, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Politics & Democracy, Press Releases
Tags: mining, Germany, HeidelbergCement, indigenous people, Indonesia, Kendeng, land rights, Zement, Zentraljava

The Omnibus Law on Job Creation: Economic Growth First! – People, Environment and Democracy Later?

Kartika Manurung & Christine Holike*

In October 2019, the Indonesian government began to propagate the so-called omnibus law, which aims to change a number of regulations in existing laws that affect a wide range of issues, from business, environmental impact assessment, labour law, and education to halal certification and regional government powers. Neatly split into the packages of “job creation”, “state capital”, “tax” (already passed in January) and “pharmaceutical”, the “one bill for everything” highlights Jokowi’s ambition to put ... read more

Posted on 09:43 AM in Economy, Labor & Corruption, Human Rights, Indonesia, Environment & Climate
Tags: labour, draft omnibus law on job creation, environment, human rights, indigenous people, indigenous rights, Omnibus law on Job creation, worker's rights

Klimakiller Zement und der Widerstand am Kendeng Gebirge

„Save Kendeng – HeidelbergCement raus aus Kendeng!“ war auch bei der Aktionärsversammlung von HeidelbergCement 2019 in Wiesloch wieder unsere Forderung an die Aktionär*innen und Chefetage des Unternehmens.

Gemeinsam mit Aktivist*innen von RobinWood, dem Dachverband der Kritischen Aktionäre und Unterstützer*innen aus Stuttgart und Heidelberg haben wir auf den Klimakiller Zement aufmerksam gemacht und gegen die Machenschaften von HeidelbergCement in Indonesien, der Westsahara und im Westjordanland protestiert.

Hintergrundinformationen zu den Konsequenzen der Zementproduktion mit Fokus auf den Widerstand am Kendeng Gebirge in Indonesien findet ... read more

Posted on 10:07 AM in Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Mining, Environment & Climate
Tags: mining, Germany, HeidelbergCement, indigenous people, Indonesia, Kendeng, land rights, human rights, Zement, Zentraljava

(Deutsch) HeidelbergCement – Negative Folgen des Baubooms

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German version

Posted on 12:01 AM in Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Mining, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: mining, Germany, HeidelbergCement, indigenous people, Indonesia, land rights, human rights, environment and climate, economy and business

(Deutsch) HeidelbergCement vernachlässigt Menschenrechte bei Projekten in Indonesien und der Westsahara

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German version

Posted on 12:01 AM in Joint Press Releases & Statements, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Mining, Press Releases, Publications, Environment & Climate
Tags: mining, Germany, HeidelbergCement, indigenous people, Indonesia, land rights, human rights, environment and climate, economy and business

Fighting for the Next Generations

Heinrich Böll Stiftung – Southeast Asia, 28 January 2019

th.boell.org/en/2019/01/28/fighting-next-generations?fbclid=IwAR2VfYklz61oKQtHvFv6Ybqc8kGDDQtdS6dG6CgZWBAJe14iN_xM-a2I3kA

For years, a citizens’ initiative in the Indonesian Kendeng Karst-Mountain has been fighting against the destruction of their livelihoods by cement factories, among others from a subsidiary of the German HeidelbergCement. The transnational solidarity network Save Kendeng supports the farmers from the Kendeng Mountains.

The plain between the volcano Muria and the Kendeng Karst in Central Java is a fertile agricultural area. As far as the eye can see, there are fields ... read more

Posted on 01:58 AM in Activities, Human Rights, Indonesia, Campaign, Land & Indigenous Rights, Mining, Publications, Environment & Climate, Watch Indonesia! in the Media
Tags: mining, Germany, HeidelbergCement, indigenous people, Indonesia, Kendeng, land rights, protest action, environment and climate, Wasser, economy and business, Zement, Zentraljava

URGENT ACTION: Indonesian Security Forces use treason laws to restrict rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly in West Papua

TAPOL, Franciscans International, International Coalition for Papua, Watch Indonesia!, West Papua Netzwerk and Geneva for Human Rights Global Training would like to draw your attention to the cases of the violation of the rights to freedom of opinion and expression as well as the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association of the members of West Papua National Committee (Komite Nasional Papua Barat – KNPB) in Mimika Regency, Papua Province, (1) Indonesia. We ... read more

Posted on 11:36 PM in joint position papers, Human Rights, Indonesia, Papua, Position Papers, Publications, Regional Conflicts
Tags: Demonstration, indigenous people, Indonesia, human rights, military, Papua, political prisoners, Police, regional conflicts, United Nations

(Deutsch) Watch! Indonesia – indonesische Filmreihe im BABYLON, Berlin-Mitte

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Posted on 05:51 AM in Agro Fuels, Activities, Visitor Programmes, democracy, Elections & Political Parties, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Society & Religion, Environment & Climate
Tags: 1965, poverty, Chinese, democracy, Germany, film, refugees, indigenous people, Indonesia, Joko Widodo, land rights, palm oil, rain forest destruction, religion, Umwelt

RSPO: 14 years of failure to eliminate violence and destruction from the industrial palm oil sector

November 12, 2018. Open Statement

read as PDF: www.watchindonesia.org/wp-content/uploads/Declaracion-con-firmas-ENG.pdf

During its 14 years of existence, RSPO – the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil – has failed to live up to its claim of „transforming” the industrial palm oil production sector into a so-called „sustainable” one. In reality, the RSPO has been used by the palm oil industry to greenwash corporate destruction and human rights abuses, while it continues to expand business, forest destruction and profits.

RSPO presents itself to the public ... read more

Posted on 12:46 AM in Agro Fuels, joint position papers, Human Rights, Indonesia, Land & Indigenous Rights, Papua, Position Papers, Publications, Rainforest, Environment & Climate
Tags: agrofuel ("biofuel"), ArbeiterInnen, women's rights, indigenous people, Indonesia, children's rights, land rights, human rights, palm oil, Papua, plantations, rain forest destruction, Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), environment and climate, certification