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 […]

Head of State,president Baldwin Lonsdale says it is the country’s hope that one day Vanuatu and Fiji will unite to address the issue of West Papua. As he welcomed the newly appointed High Commissioner of Fiji to Vanuatu, Esala Teleni,last week President Lonsdale pointed out that having such a bigger partner in the Pacific Region has […]

AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): The Pacific Island Forum (PIF) leaders meeting in Papua New Guinea is a few weeks away and the secretary-general for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), Octovianus Mote, is in New Zealand to lobby the government to support human rights. West Papua is now on the agenda at the […]

Benny Wenda has written this statement as a condolence message after the deaths of 54 people in the Oksibil plane crash in West Papua, and the murder of West Papuan man Fredi Wenda by the Indonesian military. Both happened on 16th August (Indonesian Independence Day) which West Papuans refused to participate in. Dear friends, supporters […]

Yesterday West Papuan independence leader and Spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, Benny Wenda was interviewed by Radio Australia about the Indonesian military torturing and murdering his relative Fredi Wenda, to threaten him after he said that West Papuans would not celebrate Indonesian Independence Day. You can listen to the full interview here

It remains unclear whether the West Papuan activist Filep Karma will soon walk free from Abepura Prison in Indonesia’s eastern region. Karma has served two thirds of a 15-year jail term for treason after he raised the banned Papuan Morning Star flag in 2004. Last week, he rejected an offer of remission on Indonesia’s Independence […]

We are very pleased to report that a new branch of the Free West Papua Campaign has opened in Poland! The new branch was launched with members of Free West Papua Campaign Netherlands and is  located in Garwolin, (near Warsaw) Poland. The launch took place on August 8th during Garwolin’s second solidarity concert for West […]