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TIKI’ – PAPUAN WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS NETWORK
TIKI’ grew from the concern of individuals and
women’s groups about the situation of Papuan
women’s human rights. With assistance from
the International Center for Transitional Justice,
and facilitated by the Women’s Working Group
of the Papua People’s Assembly (MRP) and the
National Women’s Commission, a team of
Papua women documented the situation of
Papuan women’s human rights and published
their findings in a report entitled: Enough is
Enough! Testimonies of Papuan Women Victims of
Violence and Human Rights Violations 1963-2009.
WITH this momentum, a network was formed
on 9 October 2010 comprising organizations
and individuals with the goals to:
• increase the understanding of the women’s
movement about the situation of violence
against women in Papua and other violations
of their rights;
• encourage and support the protection,
restoration, and fulfillment of the rights of
Papuan women.
BASED on the report and these goals, this
network was named TIKI’ Papuan Women’s
Human Rights Network.
VISION: Realization of the Advancement,
Protection and Fulfillment of Papuan Women’s
Human Rights.
VALUES:
• hold high human rights’ principles
• side with victims without discrimination
• gender equality and justice.
IN an urgent situation, where we shout,
“Enough is Enough!” we can no longer wait for
state recognition and policy change. We must
immediately move to strengthen victims,
support healing, and advocate for state and
community recognition of victims’ rights.
WEAVING A NOKEN (a traditional Papuan
bag) is the way we describe the healing process
for victims. It comprises five steps:
1. Find a Friend: the process of identifying
women victims of violence in a community.
2. Hold Hands: another word for the healing
process where victims have space to share
their stories and take steps towards healing.
3. Gather Stories: a process of documenting
testimonies/stories of women victims.
4. Giving Voice: documentation findings are
shared with government, cultural, and
religious leaders, and if possible, victims
willing to speak are given space for a public
hearing.
5. Change My World: a process of periodic
support to strengthen victims (socially,
economically, politically)
PROGRAM PRIORITIES:
1. Weaving a Noken has three main activities:
local documentation of violations of
women’s human rights; restoration and
fulfillment of the rights of women victims;
and advocacy for policies with a perspective
on women’s human rights.
2. Network Capacity Building whose main
activity is developing the resource capacity
and empowerment of the network.
Consensus also has been reached regarding the
network’s priority issues: eco-social-cultural
rights, reparations, management of natural
resources, rights of women in regions vulnerable
to violence (border, security operations,
extractive industries), women and politics, and
women human rights defenders. Urgent issues
for joint advocacy include the issue of women’s
human rights in relation to government policies
(related to institutional reform) and women’s
problems that have a large, systematic, and
widespread impact.
WORKING TEAM
Network Members:
1. Humi Inane –Sound of Women (focus on
domestic violence)
2. United for Truth (BUK), Biak
3. Women’s Health Network of Eastern
Indonesia (JKPIT)
4. Belantara Papua (environmentalist group)
5. Merauke Peace & Justice Secretariat (SKP)
6. Institute for Research and Empowerment of
Papuan Women and Children (LP3A-P)
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