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Indigenous groups remain committed in stopping the Goro Nickel project from going ahead and request that Inco restore the areas it has destroyed by removing its installations and reforesting the area. Indigenous groups are planning naval raids to stop the waste pipe that Goro Nickel is hurriedly laying. Rheebu Nuu successfully stopped Inco from laying it's pipe in Kwe West by building a new village and will now use all available means to stop the new path of the pipe.

 The Kanak group Rheebu Nuu has lodged complaints of corruption against the president of New Caledonia's southern province, Philippe Gomes, and the director general of the Goro Nickel company, Ron Renton.

This comes amid a conflict between Rheebu Nuu and Goro which nearly two months ago saw Rheebu Nuu activists destroy 10 million US dollars worth of vehicles and installations at the Goro construction site.

Rheebu Nuu has hired a French lawyer to draft the complaint which alleges that Mr Gomes has mixed his political post with his business interests.

On March 15, the United Nations General Assembly voted 170–4 to create a new Human Rights Council, effectively dissolving the oft-criticized Commission on Human Rights. Candidates for the Council will need to be elected by an absolute majority of 96 votes in order to secure a position, and once elected members can serve a maximum of two consecutive terms.

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