Solomon Islands is determined to keep West Papua on the regional and global agenda in the next few years because of the struggles of the people for self-determination and gross violation of human rights abuses’ in the Indonesian province. Since the admission of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) as an observer to […]

Catherine Delahunty MP on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 – 10:52 Murray McCully’s position that a fact-finding mission into human rights atrocities in West Papua isn’t needed shows a complete lack of leadership and credibility, the Green Party said today. “Murray McCully’s inaction on human rights abuses by Indonesia in West Papua is shameful – where’s […]

Yesterday, Benny Wenda wrote this letter to the Secretary General, Leaders and People of the Pacific Islands Forum, following the welcome announcement from the Forum that West Papua was to be discussed a regional priority. On behalf of the people of West Papua, Benny Wenda is calling on the Pacific Islands Forum to please remember […]

The former, current and incoming chairs of the Pacific Islands Forum say they will take the concerns of Pacific NGOs on the situation in West Papua seriously. Issues of West Papua and climate change are expected to be high on the agenda at this week’s Forum leaders summit in Papua New Guinea’s capital. This week […]

This week our Prime Minister John Key will join Leaders from around the pacific, in Papua New Guinea for the 46th Pacific Island leader’s forum. Among the high level talks will be the human rights abuses in West Papua.  For decades the Indonesian province has been a no go zone with amid claims of genocide […]

Once again, Benny Wenda’s Papua New Guinea visa application has been rejected and he has been left unable to travel to Papua New Guinea. This shock visa rejection comes despite assurances from Prime Minister Peter O’Neill in an interview with ABC News Australia earlier this year that, there was “no reason why he shouldn’t be […]

A new article extensively covering the success of West Papua joining the Melanesian Spearhead Group earlier this year has been published in wagingnonviolence.org You can read the full article, “A new hopeful chapter in West Papua’s 50-year freedom struggle” here “A new hopeful chapter in West Papua’s 50-year freedom struggle” is an edited excerpt from the […]

Build political support Contact your political representative and encourage them to join the International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP) if they haven’t already. If you are in the UK you can click here to contact your MP direct. The ultimate aim of the Free West Papua Campaign is to give the people of West Papua the right […]

London protest against the 1962 ‘New York Agreement’ Which under the United nations gave Indonesia control over West Papua. Since then its estimated that over 500, 000 West Papuan have been killed, they live in a constant state of fear from intimation, rape, torture, and false imprisonment. Hidden from the eyes of the world this […]

Vanuatu’s president Baldwin Lonsdale says it is the country’s hope that Vanuatu and Fiji will eventually unite to address the issue of West Papua. The Vanuatu Daily Post reports Mr Lonsdale made the comments as he welcomed Fiji’s newly appointed High Commissioner to Vanuatu, Esala Teleni. Vanuatu President, Baldwin Lonsdale. Photo: AFP He says Vanuatu has […]