Forwarded with permission from Christine Howes: From: Jen Tsen Kwok Subject: ANTaR QLD: CERD campaign Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 10:35 AM Dear everybody. On the 19th March 1999 the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) found that the native title amendments created by the Federal government in the Native Title Amendment Act (NTAA) (1998) breached Australiàs international obligations under the International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1969). The CERD committee called upon the Australian Federal government to suspend implementation of the NTAA. ANTaR QLD intends to run a media and letter writing campaign until the end of August concerning the CERD decision. There are a number of factors which have prompted us to do this; a) the original intention of the CERD committee to visit Australia in early July was indefinitely postponed, b) on August 16th the CERD committee will meet to decide what to do further. The importance of the CERD decision is that it gives ANTaR an opportunity to revive the issue upon which the organization's creation was originally based. That is; opposition to the 'Ten Point Plan' native title amendments. This email is in effect a formal invitation to each of you to participate in this campaign via letter writing. It may require a letter being written as often as once a week. We are still formulating our program for the media campaign and therefore it will be at least a week before I send out a formal briefing of the CERD decision. I will probably be required to send additionally mail too as the campaign progress and in response to breaking news. If you are interested, or you know absolutely anyone else who would be interested, please contact or email me. Mr Jen Kwok ph/fax (business). 3841 5333 email. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Individuals who have email access are obviously more convenient for me to contact but as we already have individuals who can only participate via snail mail, it is not inconvenient for me to send them written material. Yours faithfully, Jen Kwok. ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/
