Gavin Drake – The increasing tensions in Indonesian West Papua has attracted the attention of both the World Council of Churches' Central…

Mark Bowling – With Australia heading to a general election, Catholic Church leaders are calling on the major political parties to end their…

Indonesia's campaign to contain issues of West Papua has entered a new phase.

As diplomatic activity on behalf of the indigenous people of…

On the 1st July in 1971, West Papuan Independence was declared by the OPM.

Local media suarapapua.com reported that the Papua Student…

An international human rights law firm has submitted a formal legal complaint to the UN Human Rights Council regarding violations by Indonesia…

West Papua Media and local sources – Australian-supported Indonesian Police special forces shot dead a teenage Papuan high school student in…

Papua New Guinea's ambassador in Jakarta says there's a change of attitude taking place in Indonesia's Papua region, or West Papua, whereby the…

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) is taking no part in a government-sanctioned team on human rights violations in…

Following his visit to West Papua, Papua New Guinea's ambassador to Indonesia says that increasingly West Papuans are in the driving seat in terms…

West Papua Action Auckland congratulates the Governments of Vanuatu and Solomon Islands for their statements last week about human rights abuses…

Ernest Ta'asi – The Solomon Islands government is in support for an international supervised vote on the independence of West Papua.

Solomon…

Amsterdam, The Netherlands – The Foundation St. Legal Aids for the People of West Papua, assisted by the renowned Amsterdam-based human rights law…

London – A new report by Papuans Behind Bars (PBB) exposes the Indonesian government's increased use of arbitrary arrests to shut down protests in…

Allegations of human rights abuses in Indonesia's Papua region, or West Papua, have been highlighted at the United Nations Human Rights Council in…

New Zealand's government has confirmed its ambassador to Indonesia, Dr Trevor Matheson, visited Jayapura and Merauke in Papua last week.

The…

The Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have condemned the "unresolved" human rights violations in West Papua by Indonesian security forces, saying they…

Yeremia Sukoyo, Jakarta – Minister of Land and Spatial Planning Ferry Mursyidan Baldan has declared the government's recognition of communal…

Human Rights Situation in West Papua

Mr. President,

We would like to draw the Council's attention to the human rights situation in…

Solomon Islands' diplomat in Geneva has told the UN Human Rights Council's 32nd session about an eroding human rights situation in Indonesia's…

Charlene Lanyon – Submissions made by various sectors to the Pacific Islands Forum have highlighted West Papua as an issue of concern in the…

Wamena, Jubi – The government's attempt to resolve alleged human rights violations through an integrated team formed under the Coordinating…

Wamena, Jubi – Papua Police would issue rules on public expressions in a move that many fear will curtail free speech.

Papua Police Chief…

Jayapura, Jubi – UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, Maina Kai, highlighted the issue of Papua in…

The West Papua National Committee, or KNPB, has claimed that more than 1,000 of its members were detained by police during a demonstration last…

Eko Prasetyo, Jakarta – The Indonesian government has rejected the claims of a separatist group which calls themselves the United Liberation…

After monitoring 20 months of the human rights situation in Papua and West Papua provinces under President Joko Widodo's administration, the Asian…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government should change its view of development in Papua from an Indonesia-centric perspective to a Papua-…

Jayapura, Jubi – Some Papuans expressed doubts that an investigation team from the Coordinating Minister of Political, Legal and Security Affairs…

Indonesian police have told journalists from an independent West Papua news outlet to co-ordinate with them over coverage of public demonstrations…

The chairman of this week's Melanesian Spearhead Group Foreign Ministers meeting in Fiji has lauded the occasion of having West Papuan and…

Syaiful Hakim, Jakarta – An Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Political, Security and Legal Affairs, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said here on…

Jayapura, Jubi – The West Papua National Committee claimed that more than 1,000 of its members have been detained by police during a rally on…

Shinta Maharani, Yogyakarta – A group of young artists under the Alliance for Art Jog 2016 Boycott urged the Art Jog 2016 committee to return a…

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Indonesia is committed to taking a holistic approach in its push for an immediate settlement of human rights…

Benny Mawel, Abepura, Indonesia – Over a thousand people, including seminarians, have staged a rally in Jayapura, the provincial capital of Papua…

New Zealand politicians want the government to press for progress on a high level fact-finding mission to Indonesia's Papua region.

The…

Dandy Koswaraputra, Jakarta – The police have denied claims that they detained over 1,000 Papuans who staged a rally today to demand Indonesia…

Jakarta – Indonesia on Wednesday briefly detained more than 1,000 pro-independence demonstrators in its eastern province of Papua, ahead of a…

The AWPA condemns the arrests of 65 KNPB and student activists in Sentani and 4 in Nabire on the 13 June.

Joe Collins of AWPA said, "the…

Journalists have been intimidated and threatened while covering an election in the Mamberamo Raya regency of Indonesia's Papua province.

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Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Luhut Pandjaitan has expressed the government's…

Local media (suarapapua.com) has reported the arrests of up to 31 KNPB activists in Jayapura on Friday the 10 June. Those arrested were simply…

The New Zealand Government must address the issue of escalating political repression in West Papua. In the last month over two thousand people…

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) condemns ongoing violations of the rights of West Papuans to freedom of expression and calls…

The office of the United Nations Secretary-General denies that he met with a representative of West Papua at the World Humanitarian Summit.

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Stephanie Zillman – The Indonesian Consul to Darwin Andre Siregar has denied he pressured the owner of a wall to paint over a mural which features…

A large anti-independence rally has been held by transmigrants in the capital of Indonesia's Papua province, Jayapura.

The demonstrators,…

Indonesia's consul in Darwin has denied awareness of any "external pressure" put on the owners of a building housing a mural supporting West Papua…

Jayapura, Jubi – Third Deputy Chairman of Papua Legislative Council, Yanni suggested that outsiders or foreign countries were behind calls for…

Stephanie Zillman – The artists who painted a mural depicting the West Papuan " Morning Star" flag on a wall in Darwin's CBD has been asked by the…