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Seven Pacific states blast Indonesia for human rights violations in West...

March 2, 2017

António Guterres in Vanuatu

UN chief waffles over West Papuan human rights violations

May 23, 2019

Vanuatu PM Salwai seeks UN probe on West Papua human rights...

September 23, 2017

West Papua human rights violations ‘worse’ says new civil group

December 1, 2016

The NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji

Fiji rights coalition slams ‘betrayal’ of West Papua for Indonesian benefits

May 17, 2025

Participants at a Pacific Islands Festival in Europe show their support for the Free West Papua campaign

Activist group praises Pacific support for West Papua but slams NZ

March 25, 2025

West Papua independence activists

Indonesia’s amnesty plan for West Papua independence fighters greeted with scepticism

February 2, 2025

Former NZ Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty speaking for West Papua Action Aotearoa

Civil society groups call on Pacific leaders to ‘take responsibility’ over...

December 2, 2024

Papuan People’s Solidarity members protest in Sorong last month against President Prabowo Subianto’s plan to resume a transmigration programme

West Papuan outcry over Prabowo’s plan to revive transmigration

November 5, 2024

Indonesian security forces block Indigenous West Papuans protesting in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta against land seizures

Prabowo takes power as Indonesian military set up new battalions – what...

October 25, 2024

President Prabowo Subianto

Prabowo’s presidency sparks fear and faint hope in Indonesia’s contested Papua

October 23, 2024

"Tanah Papua", Biak Elok's version

Papuan aspirations at stake in divided Melanesian Spearhead Group politics

September 17, 2024

United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) vice-president Octo Mote

West Papuan independence advocate seeks NZ support against ‘genocide, ecocide’

September 13, 2024

Papuan environmental and human rights lawyer Yan Christian Warinussy

From Papua to Gaza, military occupation leads to ‘ecocide’ – climate...

August 14, 2024

West Papua is home to the world's third-largest rainforest

Queen Mary Uni to host tribunal on ‘environmental violence, profiteering’ in...

June 19, 2024

An unknown Papuan artist's depiction of the graphic torture videos

West Papuan wounds of suffering – diplomatic pressure on Indonesia needed...

March 24, 2024

The two Papuan teens arrested by the Indonesian military

West Papua advocacy group condemns arrest, ‘humiliation’ of two teenagers

February 26, 2024

A burnt out Papuan home in Puncak regency

Wenda accuses Indonesia of more human rights atrocities in Papua

February 16, 2024

Morning Star flags of West Papuan independence on display at MACFEST2023

Indonesian presidential hopefuls explain their West Papua policies

February 10, 2024

Papuan students protest over the 1962 Rome Agreement at one of last Saturday's many demonstrations

West Papuan, Indonesian youth protest over ‘illegal’ 1962 Rome Agreement

October 5, 2023

Latifah Anum Siregar, director of the Alliance for Democracy for Papua (right), speaks

West Papua’s human rights issues under spotlight for Jubi film launch

October 3, 2023

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare

Sogavare hails ‘new approach’ on West Papua – Wale calls PM...

September 28, 2023

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