Sarawak: US Human Rights Report Shines Spotlight On Penan Tribe

Sarawak: US Human Rights Report Shines Spotlight On Penan Tribe   A new US government human rights report has highlighted the Penan tribe’s battle to protect their rainforests in Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo, from logging.   The US State Department document cites claims by indigenous rights groups that Sarawak Chief Minister Taib Mahmud’s government has leased the Penan’s land ‘to logging companies and land developers in exchange for political favors and money’.   Taib Mahmud has been in power...

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