The following statement by ULMWP President Benny Wenda was read out at the picket outside 10 Downing Street against UK PM ...

My name is Benny Wenda and I am a West Papuan independence leader. When I was a child my village was bombed by the Indonesian military and many of my family were killed. Later, I began to campaign ...

‘The Neglected Genocide’ is a report detailing a series of human rights abuses that took place in the Central Highlands of Papua, during the military operations in 1977-1978. In this publication, the ...

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West Papua is the western half of the island of New Guinea, bordering the independent nation of Papua New Guinea. It lies just 200km north of Australia. The land comprises a large mountainous interior ...

WARNING – the following article contains some disturbing images. Ever since the invasion of West Papua over fifty years ago, the Indonesian security forces have committed a never ending catalogue of ...

This 130 Page ICP report documents events surrounding human rights in West Papua from April 2013 to December 2014 and examines the serious and terrible human rights violations being perpetrated ...

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West Papua was originally populated by Melanesian people some tens of thousands of years ago. After little contact with the Western world, it was finally formally colonised by the Netherlands in 1898.

Benny Wenda is a West Papuan Independence Leader who founded the Free West Papua Campaign in 2004. He is now the Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) and works tirelessly ...

All around the world, so many people are Taking Action to help spread the message and raise support for the people of West Papua. We want to make West Papua a household name and get as many people as ...

Indonesia is totally unfit to hold the Presidency of the UN Human Rights Council. How can Indonesia lead on human rights, when they are hiding from the world their sixty-year occupation of West Papua, ...