Tragic Disappearance of Malaysian Airlines MH370, Petition from ICSF
Dear Comrades, colleagues and friends in international fishworker and related organisations and social movements
We, the staff and members of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) wish to inform you about the tragic disappearance of Ms Chandrika Sharma, the Executive Secretary of ICSF, aboard the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 whilst on her way to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to attend the 32nd Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia. No trace of the plane has been found and there is no explanation for its disappearance.
ICSF is an international non-governmental membership based organisation that includes a network of individuals working in support of small-scale fishing communities around the world. Chandrika Sharma has been the Executive Secretary of ICSF for over 15 years. As such she has been at the forefront of the international struggle for the recognition of the human rights of small-scale fishing communities, particularly women. She has worked tirelessly to increase understanding about and garner support for small scale fisheries, and to strengthen the network amongst organisations working with fishing and coastal communities, advocating for their rights and contributing towards the development of socially just fisheries. Her disappearance is a tremendous loss to the social movements in fisheries.
We are devastated by her disappearance and find it shocking that there is still no credible public information on what actually happened to flight MH 370. We understand that the Malaysian Government has now released the raw satellite data provided by Inmarsat that was used to narrow down the search for the missing MH370 to the southern Indian Ocean – but even this data has been only selectively released we understand. We hope that we can put more pressure for greater transparency as even the Australian Transport Safety Bureau mission has ruled out that it crashed in the Indian Ocean.
Despite the loss of 239 passengers and crew members, no steps have been taken to ensure that similar disappearances can’t happen in the future, and neither has the airline company nor the responsible authorities taken any action to redress the loss incurred by the families or provided transparent, credible and regularly updated information.
We would like to call on you and your organisations to join ICSF in communicating, in the strongest terms, these concerns to the appropriate national and international authorities, and to demand that the Malaysian and Indian authorities, with the full cooperation Inmarsat, collate the available data and provide the families and public at large with a transparent, accessible and up to date account of what happened to this flight.
Your support in this regard will be most appreciated. Below please find the addresses of these authorities.
Yours sincerely
Jackie Sunde
Coordinator ICSF
INDIA
His Excellency Shri Pranab Mukherjee
President's
Secretariat
Rashtrapati Bhavan,
New Delhi-110004
Tel: 91-11-23015321
Fax: +91-11-23017290,
23017824
Smt. Omita Paul
Secretary to the
President
Tel: +91 11 23013324
Tel: +91 11 23014930
[email protected]
Shri Venu Rajamony
Press Secretary to
the President
Tel: +91 11 23016535
Prime Minister
Shri Narendra Modi
South Block,
Raisina Hill,
New Delhi-110011
Phone +91-11-23012312
Fax +91-11-23019545,
23016857
http://www.narendramodi.in/write-to-shri-narendra-modi/
Smt. Sushma Swaraj
Minister,
Ministry of External
Affairs,
South Block,
New Delhi - 110011,
Tel: +91 11 23011127,
23011165,
Fax: +91 11 23013254
Tel: +91 11 23794344,
23794044
Email: [email protected]
Shri Radha Mohan
Singh Minister,
Ministry of
Agriculture,
Krishi Bhavan,
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Road,
New Delhi - 110001
[email protected]
Tel: +91 11
23782691,23383370
Fax: +91 11 23384129
Shri Ashok Gajapathi
Raju Pusapati
Minister,
Ministry of Civil
Aviation,
Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan,
Safdarjung Airport,
New Delhi,110003
Tel: +91 11
24610350,24632991
Fax: +91 11 24611707
T.S. Tirumurti
High Commissioner
High Commission of
India
Level 28, Menara 1
Mon't Kiara,
No. 1, Jalan Mon't
Kiara,
50480, Kuala Lumpur.,
Malaysia
Telephone: (00-603)
62052350, 6205 2351,
Fax: (00-603) 6143
1173
E-Mail: [email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
MALAYSIA
YAB DATO 'SRI MOHD. Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak
PRIME MINISTER OF
MALAYSIA
Department of the
Prime Minister
Block B8, Prime
Minister's Department,
Federal Government
Administrative Centre,
62502,
Malaysia.
Tel: +603-8 000 8000
FAX: +603-8888 3904
E-mail: 8000
[email protected]
H.E.Datuk Naimun
Ashakli Bin Mohammad
High Commissioner
High Commission of
Malaysia
50 M, Satya Marg
Chanakyapuri
New Delhi-110021
Tel: +91-11-2611
1291, 2611 1292, 2611 1293, 2611 1297 (O)
Fax: +91-11-2688 1538
Email:
[email protected]
Updates
June 6, 2014
The messages pouring in from folks who knew Chandrika are just overwhelming and honestly they reflect exactly how much she touched every single person she worked with in the fisheries movement. I have been spending my nights reading through them while trying to coordinate with the search teams and it keeps feeling like there must be something more we can do to get real answers.
June 6, 2014
Seeing this kind of sudden groundswell for Chandrika is overwhelming and I barely know what to say except that her impact on all of us is clearly so much deeper than I even realized. It keeps me up at night thinking about how many people she actually touched through her work because the messages pouring in really prove she was an absolute force of nature who moved mountains for those communities.
Reached 100 supporters
June 6, 2014
6 Comments
Such sad news. Chandrika was a force for good in our community and she will be missed by so many people globally.
WE NEED ANSWERS. how does a plane just vanish?? poor woman and everyone else on that flight.
Chandrika was a mentor to so many of us. I cant believe this has happened.
Still praying for some kind of answer. This is just awful.
She did so much for small scale fishing rights. Truly a tragedy for the movement.
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Tragic Disappearance of Malaysian Airlines MH370, Petition from ICSF
Dear Comrades, colleagues and friends in international fishworker and related organisations and social movements
We, the staff and members of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) wish to inform you about the tragic disappearance of Ms Chandrika Sharma, the Executive Secretary of ICSF, aboard the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 whilst on her way to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to attend the 32nd Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia. No trace of the plane has been found and there is no explanation for its disappearance.
ICSF is an international non-governmental membership based organisation that includes a network of individuals working in support of small-scale fishing communities around the world. Chandrika Sharma has been the Executive Secretary of ICSF for over 15 years. As such she has been at the forefront of the international struggle for the recognition of the human rights of small-scale fishing communities, particularly women. She has worked tirelessly to increase understanding about and garner support for small scale fisheries, and to strengthen the network amongst organisations working with fishing and coastal communities, advocating for their rights and contributing towards the development of socially just fisheries. Her disappearance is a tremendous loss to the social movements in fisheries.
We are devastated by her disappearance and find it shocking that there is still no credible public information on what actually happened to flight MH 370. We understand that the Malaysian Government has now released the raw satellite data provided by Inmarsat that was used to narrow down the search for the missing MH370 to the southern Indian Ocean – but even this data has been only selectively released we understand. We hope that we can put more pressure for greater transparency as even the Australian Transport Safety Bureau mission has ruled out that it crashed in the Indian Ocean.
Despite the loss of 239 passengers and crew members, no steps have been taken to ensure that similar disappearances can’t happen in the future, and neither has the airline company nor the responsible authorities taken any action to redress the loss incurred by the families or provided transparent, credible and regularly updated information.
We would like to call on you and your organisations to join ICSF in communicating, in the strongest terms, these concerns to the appropriate national and international authorities, and to demand that the Malaysian and Indian authorities, with the full cooperation Inmarsat, collate the available data and provide the families and public at large with a transparent, accessible and up to date account of what happened to this flight.
Your support in this regard will be most appreciated. Below please find the addresses of these authorities.
Yours sincerely
Jackie Sunde
Coordinator ICSF
INDIA
His Excellency Shri Pranab Mukherjee
President's
Secretariat
Rashtrapati Bhavan,
New Delhi-110004
Tel: 91-11-23015321
Fax: +91-11-23017290,
23017824
Smt. Omita Paul
Secretary to the
President
Tel: +91 11 23013324
Tel: +91 11 23014930
[email protected]
Shri Venu Rajamony
Press Secretary to
the President
Tel: +91 11 23016535
Prime Minister
Shri Narendra Modi
South Block,
Raisina Hill,
New Delhi-110011
Phone +91-11-23012312
Fax +91-11-23019545,
23016857
http://www.narendramodi.in/write-to-shri-narendra-modi/
Smt. Sushma Swaraj
Minister,
Ministry of External
Affairs,
South Block,
New Delhi - 110011,
Tel: +91 11 23011127,
23011165,
Fax: +91 11 23013254
Tel: +91 11 23794344,
23794044
Email: [email protected]
Shri Radha Mohan
Singh Minister,
Ministry of
Agriculture,
Krishi Bhavan,
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Road,
New Delhi - 110001
[email protected]
Tel: +91 11
23782691,23383370
Fax: +91 11 23384129
Shri Ashok Gajapathi
Raju Pusapati
Minister,
Ministry of Civil
Aviation,
Rajiv Gandhi Bhawan,
Safdarjung Airport,
New Delhi,110003
Tel: +91 11
24610350,24632991
Fax: +91 11 24611707
T.S. Tirumurti
High Commissioner
High Commission of
India
Level 28, Menara 1
Mon't Kiara,
No. 1, Jalan Mon't
Kiara,
50480, Kuala Lumpur.,
Malaysia
Telephone: (00-603)
62052350, 6205 2351,
Fax: (00-603) 6143
1173
E-Mail: [email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected],
MALAYSIA
YAB DATO 'SRI MOHD. Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak
PRIME MINISTER OF
MALAYSIA
Department of the
Prime Minister
Block B8, Prime
Minister's Department,
Federal Government
Administrative Centre,
62502,
Malaysia.
Tel: +603-8 000 8000
FAX: +603-8888 3904
E-mail: 8000
[email protected]
H.E.Datuk Naimun
Ashakli Bin Mohammad
High Commissioner
High Commission of
Malaysia
50 M, Satya Marg
Chanakyapuri
New Delhi-110021
Tel: +91-11-2611
1291, 2611 1292, 2611 1293, 2611 1297 (O)
Fax: +91-11-2688 1538
Email:
[email protected]
Updates
June 6, 2014
The messages pouring in from folks who knew Chandrika are just overwhelming and honestly they reflect exactly how much she touched every single person she worked with in the fisheries movement. I have been spending my nights reading through them while trying to coordinate with the search teams and it keeps feeling like there must be something more we can do to get real answers.
June 6, 2014
Seeing this kind of sudden groundswell for Chandrika is overwhelming and I barely know what to say except that her impact on all of us is clearly so much deeper than I even realized. It keeps me up at night thinking about how many people she actually touched through her work because the messages pouring in really prove she was an absolute force of nature who moved mountains for those communities.
Reached 100 supporters
June 6, 2014
6 Comments
Heartbreaking. Sending thoughts to her family and the whole ICSF team during this impossible time.
Such sad news. Chandrika was a force for good in our community and she will be missed by so many people globally.
WE NEED ANSWERS. how does a plane just vanish?? poor woman and everyone else on that flight.
Chandrika was a mentor to so many of us. I cant believe this has happened.
Still praying for some kind of answer. This is just awful.
She did so much for small scale fishing rights. Truly a tragedy for the movement.
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Heartbreaking. Sending thoughts to her family and the whole ICSF team during this impossible time.