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Exhibition highlights vanishing of West Papua's noken weaving
Original: # News : Exhibition highlights vanishing of West Papua’s UNESCO recognised # noken weaving for # palmoil and # sugarcane
An exhibition is drawing attention to the decline of noken, the traditional Papuan bag-weaving craft recognised by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage. Campaigners say plantations for palm oil and sugarcane in West Papua are driving deforestation and displacing Indigenous communities whose livelihoods and culture depend on the forests where materials for noken are gathered. Advocates are urging consumers to reject corporate land grabs by boycotting palm oil products and are framing the craft's decline as a broader human rights and Indigenous rights issue.
Why now: Indigenous rights and environmental campaigners are using the exhibition to raise awareness of deforestation and land grabbing in West Papua.
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- # News : Exhibition highlights vanishing of West Papua’s UNESCO recognised # noken weaving for # palmoil and # sugarcane in # WestPapua . Reject corporate # landgrabbing for palm oil in when you shop! # BoycottPalmOil # HumanRights # IndigenousRights @ palmoildetectives… · palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk · 9
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