{"id":1407,"date":"2015-07-28T15:42:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1407"},"modified":"2015-07-28T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T15:42:59","slug":"pif-urged-to-discuss-rights-abuse-in-west-papua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/?p=1407","title":{"rendered":"PIF urged to discuss rights abuse in West Papua"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Australia West Papua Association is calling on Pacific Islands Forum leaders to address the human rights situation in Indonesia&#8217;s Papuan provinces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Its call comes in the lead up to the 46th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Summit to be held in Papua New Guinea in September.<\/p>\n<p>The group says Indonesia&#8217;s security forces used excessive and often lethal force on peaceful protesters in West Papua on numerous occasions in 2014 resulting in at least four deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The association is urging the leaders at the summit to discuss the human rights situation in West Papua and seek Indonesia&#8217;s approval for a Forum fact finding mission to West Papua.<\/p>\n<p>It is also calling for the release of all West Papuan political prisoners and the granting of observer status to genuine representatives of the Melanesian people of West Papua.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/international\/pacific-news\/279928\/pif-urged-to-discuss-rights-abuse-in-west-papua\">PIF urged to discuss rights abuse in West Papua | Radio New Zealand News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australia West Papua Association is calling on Pacific Islands Forum leaders to address the human rights situation in Indonesia&#8217;s Papuan provinces. Its call comes in the lead up to the 46th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Summit to be held in Papua New Guinea in September. The group says Indonesia&#8217;s security forces used excessive and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-info-papua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1410,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions\/1410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infopapua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}