West Papua at Pacific Islands Forum - Daily Telegraph NZ

West Papua at Pacific Islands Forum - Daily Telegraph NZ

The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) delegation has arrived in Honiara, Solomon Islands, for the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders’ Meeting. The crisis in West Papua is intensifying. Over 100,000 Papuans are currently displaced due to Indonesian militarisation. Those who speak out are silenced through repression, torture, and killings. In the past few months, numerous massacres have been committed in Puncak and Intan Jaya. At …

Pacific CSOs urge Forum Chair to act on West Papua

Pacific Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have called on incoming Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Chair and Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Jeremiah Manele, to honour past commitments on West Papua. In an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Manele, PIF leaders, Secretary-General Baron Waqa, CROP agencies, and United Nations human rights bodies, the CSOs urged Indonesia to demonstrate accountability by granting “immediate and unrestricted access…