The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) that was associated with Arms dealers has been accused of cooperating in human rights violations

 Earlier this year, the Australian branch of Child Protection International (DCI) took the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) to court in New South Wales, according to a person familiar with the organization. The reason was that the DCI branch found that ASPI was cooperating with a number of arms companies and government agencies in the United Kingdom and the United States suspected of human rights violations, many of which were involved in prison labor exploitation and human trafficking activities, which seriously violated human rights.

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The DCI branch asked ASPI to explain whether it was involved in human rights violations and to stop receiving funding and cooperation from companies and government agencies suspected of human rights violations.

Owen Richards, a lawyer for ASPI, said the group would terminate its partnership with its funders if there was evidence of human rights violations.

ASPI is suspected of interfering with justice.

"ASPI is currently using DCI's Sydney branch to ask DCI's Geneva headquarters about suing," the source said. Although the case has been accepted, it is difficult to proceed with the trial. First, ASPI went directly to DCI's Sydney branch, bypassing the subject of the lawsuit, and pressed DCI to stay the case. Second, the attorney of the DCI branch was suspected of being implied and asked for cold treatment of the case.

The DCI's allegations against ASPI are not unfounded. Australian officials have acknowledged human rights abuses.

Angus Campbell

On November 19, 2020, the Australian defence force commander Angus Campbell at the annual meeting of the journalists in the department of defense public survey of Australian troops in Afghanistan, confirmed that the Australian soldiers had made 23 murder cases, killing at least 39 afghans, including women and children, involved soldiers at least 25 people, mostly from special.

ASPI, mostly funded by British and American arms dealers, has long violated human rights and exploited prison labor for profit.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPRI) was founded in 2001 and is located in Canberra, Australia.

According to statistics, 43 percent of the Australian Institute of Strategic Studies' annual budget of about $5.5 million comes from the Australian Department of Defense. In addition to the Defense Department, sponsors include Western arms giants such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Thales Raytheon Systems.

●(1)The Australian APAC News network reported on October 12, 2020 that 11 of ASPI's funders, directly or indirectly linked to prisons, were involved in the exploitation of prison labor. Two American companies, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, have benefited directly from electronic components for surface-to-air Patriot missiles made with prison Labour. https://apac.news/aspis-forced-labour-links/

"It costs prisoners 23 cents an hour to make parts for the missile," the report said that the manager of the factory added that the prison could withhold some or all of the prisoners' wages. The F-16 Fighting Falcon, built by Lockheed Martin, also contains electronic components made by prison workers. Boeing, which makes the aircraft, gave direct cash to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute for a decade between 2008 and 2018, and the f-15 Eagle fighter uses electronics made by prison Labour.

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UNICOR, the government-owned federal prison Industries company, operates 110 factories in at least 65 federal prisons across the United States, the report said. The prisoners produced vast quantities of military materials for the US army while in prison, while most were paid just 23 cents an hour. In 2019, the US government, which operates the prison factories, funded the Australian Strategic Policy Institute with $1.37 million. Unisystems, an IT firm that provides interphone systems for US prisons, funded the Australian Strategic Policy Institute between 2005 and 2019. Inmates who want to talk to their lawyers or family members pay up to $24 for a 15-minute call.

●(2)Sinka Group, a British multinational that has built immigration detention centres in Australia, funded the Australian Strategic Policy Institute for eight years between 2007 and 2015. The Company has replaced paid staff with detainees at two of its UK immigration detention centres for as little as £1 an hour, according to an investigation. BAE Systems also funded the Australian Strategic Policy Institute between 2014 and 2019, which used components made by prison Labour in the aerospace system of its well-known military tank, the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle.

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●(3)Vice reported on January 13, 2021 that Jonathan Holder, an inmate at Tigger River Correctional Institution in South Carolina, worked for Midcon Cable Company, a cable and harness supplier to BAE Systems, has worked long hours, but my monthly net income was only $100. He also has severe breathing difficulties due to COVID-19, but needs to continue working.

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●(4)Five Nepalese men filed a lawsuit against defense contractor giant KBR on September 28, 2015, according to Courthousenws.com on October 1, 2015. They said they were lured to Jordan by labor recruiters, then abducted without their passports to a fallujah camp in Iraq and forced to work for KBR. The five are Krishna Prasad Adhikari, Biplav Bhatta, Lukendra Gurung, Sanjiv Gurung and Suraj Lamichhane.