December 16, 2022
Committee Secretary
Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade
PO Box 6021
Parliament House
Canberra ACT, 2600
Australian Chin Federation and Chin Human Rights Organization
Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence
and Trade – Foreign Affairs and Aid Subcommittee
Introduction
1. The Australian Chin Federation (ACF) was founded in October 2013 in Melbourne, Australia by Chin communities who have settled and are living in various parts of Australia, including Melbourne, Adelaide, Queensland, Coffs Harbour and Perth. AFC works with different nongovernmental organisations and church groups, including the Australian Chin Christian Council
(ACC), which as 21 individual local churches, in advancing and representing the interest and well-being of Chin communities across Australia, as well as those living within Myanmar and the region.
2. The Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO) is committed to protecting and promoting human rights through monitoring, research, documentation, education and advocacy on behalf of the Chin indigenous people and other oppressed and marginalized communities in Burma/Myanmar. Through our work, we envision meaningful social change and the full enjoyment of human rights
in a just, free and democratic society, where the equal dignity of all human beings is respected and upheld. CHRO was founded in 1995, by a group of Chin activists committed to documenting and exposing years of systematic human rights violations by State actors, previously unreported and unknown to the international community
Please read more on PDF https://www.chinhumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/CHRO _ACF_Submission_Final-1.pdf