[1][2][3] Membership includes the relatives of more than twenty deceased "illegal miners" who have been killed near the Porgera Joint Venture.
[4] In 2006, the organisation's Executive Officer was Jethro Tulin,[5] and as of 2017, it was McDiyan Robert Yapari.
[6] In April 2005, Akali Tange published The Shooting Fields of Porgera Joint Venture documenting allegations of ongoing assaults and murders of local residents by the security contractors of Porgera Gold Mine.
The report expanded the scope of concern of activists from only environmental to also human rights.
[1] The report led to an admission from Placer Dome that their security guards and local police killed eight Papua New Guineans.