Indonesia Human Rights Committee (N.Z.)

Content Description This collection consists of the Indonesia Human Rights Committee's (IHRC) minutes, financial records, a large compilation of correspondence, media releases, newsletters, and information on visiting international speakers hosted by the IHRC with relevance to human rights abuses in Indonesia, especially West Papua, Aceh and its former province of Timor-Leste (East Timor). It also includes documentaries and publications used by IHRC for its publicity and educational endeavours and photographs...

Scope and Contents Collection contains Maire Leadbeater's personal papers relating to her political activism over five decades, notably the nuclear-free New Zealand and Pacific movement, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, East Timor Independence Committee and Indonesia Human Rights Committee, amongst others. These papers complement the records of the organisations she was associated with also held by Special Collections. Series 1 contains original scrapbooks of newspaper clippings curated by Leadbeater. Series...