The summit meeting of leaders from around the Pacific continues in Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea this week.  Yesterday, we reported on climate change – the issue at the top of the agenda.  Today more background on another big controversy as we hear about West Papua from Neal Conan in the Pacific […]

Indonesia’s warning to the Pacific Islands Forum not to discuss the West Papua issue is to be expected, but should not be accepted. That’s according to Gary Juffa, Governor of PNG’s Oro Province and a fierce supporter of independence for the Indonesian half of New Guinea island. Indonesia’s vice-minister for Foreign Affairs, A M Fachir […]

Pacific Island leaders will consider launching a fact-finding or monitoring mission to investigate reported human rights abuses in the Indonesian province of West Papua at this meeting of the Pacific Islands Forum. Aid and human rights groups from across the region have been urging governments to act, saying the situation in West Papua is getting […]

For the first time, NGOs from around the Pacific have come together to issue the humanity abuses in West Papua.

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 […]