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UN Beginning to Open its Eyes to the Human Rights Problem in Papua

UN Beginning to Open its Eyes to the Human Rights Problem in Papua

The continued perpetration of state violence and human rights violations in Indonesia and especially in West Papua have begun to gain awareness in the international community. This is evident from the UN Human Rights ...

JFK, West Papua and the ‘Big Wink’

JFK, West Papua and the ‘Big Wink’

Back in the 60s, after the Kennedy assassination, US agents helped engineer a coup in Indonesia and in the process handing West Papua over to Indonesia. State department officials referred to the anti-communist deal ...

Maire Leadbeater: Treason Trial Threatens Fundamental Rights

Maire Leadbeater: Treason Trial Threatens Fundamental Rights

Amnesty and Human Rights Watch say that Indonesia is defying its signed commitment to the International Conventions that protect the right to freedom of opinion and expression and the right to peaceful assembly. Inst ...

Sebby Sambom: ‘Imprisonment will never silence Papuans’

Sebby Sambom: ‘Imprisonment will never silence Papuans’

A leading Papuan human rights activist has said that the Indonesian government will never be able to silence the Papuan struggle by putting Papuans behind bars. ...

West Papua and the United Nations

West Papua and the United Nations

Upon hearing that the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, will be attending The Jakarta International Defence Dialogue on 21 March 2012, West Papuan activists rallied in various cities to bring ...

Jennifer Robinson: The UN’s Chequered Record in West Papua

Jennifer Robinson: The UN’s Chequered Record in West Papua

IN THE 1960S, WEST PAPUANS WERE SACRIFICED IN THE NAME OF COLD WAR POLITICS – AND THE UN DID NOTHING ABOUT IT. Thousands have taken part in rallies across West Papua and in Australia to mark the UN Secretary- ...

Forkorus: Independent Papua will come in a matter of days

Forkorus: Independent Papua will come in a matter of days

Jayapura: The trial of Forkorus Yaboisembut which is now under way in Jayapura has not lessened Papuan calls for Merdeka - independence. On the contrary, Forkorus is even saying that a free West Papua will come into ...

Witness Testimonies at Treason Trial of Jayapura 5

Witness Testimonies at Treason Trial of Jayapura 5

The sixth hearing of the trial of Forkorus Yaboisembet and his four colleagues took place on 21 February at which seven witnesses for the prosecution were called to give evidence. According to a lengthy report of the ...

The Jayapura Five face life in prison in West Papua

The Jayapura Five face life in prison in West Papua

FIVE Papuan independence activists are facing life in prison, with their trial getting underway in Jayapura, Papua, on Wednesday, February 8. ...