by Fiona McAlpine | Jun 22, 2023 | Uncategorized, Updates
SAVE Rivers shocked as timber company uses its chairman’s name on webpage about community engagement in apparent attempt to enhance its image (MIRI / BARAM / SARAWAK) Local civil society organization SAVE Rivers was shocked to see their chairman’s name on Samling’s...
by Fiona McAlpine | May 29, 2023 | Blog, In the media, Updates
As Malaysian timber giant Samling’s SLAPP suit against SAVE Rivers is adjourned for a fourth time, communities continue their fight against the logging company. Last week on the steps of High Court, in Miri, Sarawak, we witnessed a peaceful protest from community...
by Fiona McAlpine | May 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
Indigenous communities hold peaceful demonstration and global civil society stands in solidarity with SAVE Rivers as they face a defamation lawsuit (MIRI/SARAWAK/MALAYSIA) Today, timber giant Samling and Indigenous grassroots organisation SAVE Rivers were...
by Fiona McAlpine | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
160 groups and local communities rally behind grassroots NGO SAVE Rivers through letters and an email petition demanding timber company Samling withdraw its abusive lawsuit, which goes to trial in May at the Miri High Court. (Miri/Sarawak/Malaysia) 160 global civil...
by Jessica Merriman | Jul 4, 2022 | In the media, Updates
Originally published on Southeast Asia Globe by Fiona Kelliher A coalition in Sarawak is speaking out against a lawsuit criticised as part of a ‘chilling’ corporate litigation trend designed to stifle investigations and complaints Remnants from illegal logging line...
