A delegation from civil rights group Afriforum is scheduled to address the World Society of Victimology in Perth on Tuesday on the impact of farm attacks in South Africa.
Afriforum deputy CEO Ernst Roets says their presentation will focus on the frequency of the attacks, the unique levels of brutality, the impact on victims and government's lack of action.
"The government needs to prioritise these crimes, so we need better government policy. We need a specialist unit in the police, particularly focusing on farm attacks and preventing these attacks. At the same time people in local communities need to be more involved, yes we can argue that we pay taxes and it's the role of the police to protect people but that is not happening sufficiently."
Afriforum says there have been more than 1700 farm murders in the past 20 years and more than 100 attacks already this year.
Meanwhile: The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization - UNPO - has accepted resolutions which were brought by the Freedom Front Plus regarding farm killings and the Afrikaans language at its 12th general conference in Brussels, Belgium.
Under the adopted resolution, the UNPO will now lodge an appeal to the SA Human Rights Commission to issue its report into farm attacks.
The United Nations human rights commissioner will be asked to investigate the matter and the UNPO also undertook to request that the South African government declare farm attacks a priority crime.
Freedom Front Plus leader, Dr Pieter Groenewald welcomed the adoption of the resolution on farm killings.
"The same with the Afrikaans language, we request them that they put pressure on the SA government as such to make sure that they comply to constitution that determines that Afrikaans is one of the official languages and that is also relevant on university level." said Groenewald.
