Tag: West Papuan human rights
Covid-19 crisis a pretext for West Papua online, offline repression, says...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Indonesian government has used the covid-19 pandemic as a pretext to crack down on West Papuan street protests and to...
‘A day of betrayal’, says Wenda about 1962 secret pact over...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Today -- 15 August 15 1962 -- marks "a day of betrayal for us West Papuans", says a Papuan leader as...
ULMWP calls for suspension of Indonesia from UN rights council over...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has called on the international community to immediately suspend Indonesia from the UN...
NZ should raise human plight of West Papuans at UN, says...
RNZ Pacific
A New Zealand explorer who trekked in West Papua before Indonesian rule says he is saddened to see what colonisation has done to...
Indonesian lawmakers adopt unpopular bill to reshape Papua
SPECIAL REPORT: By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist
Indonesia's House of Representatives has passed a controversial bill that is expected to reshape the future administration...
Wenda accuses Jakarta’s military of ‘massacre’ after killing of 3 Papuans
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The United Liberation Movement of West Papua has accused Indonesian "colonial forces" of a new massacre with the killing of three...
Wenda condemns Indonesia’s UN genocide vote for Papua ‘hypocrisy’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
An exiled West Papuan leader has condemned Indonesian for "hypocrisy" in speaking out about Myanmar and Palestine while voting at the...