Papuan Human Rights

January 23, 2024 in Press Release, Statement On behalf of the ULMWP and the people of West Papua, I welcome yesterday’s meeting in the European Parliament and the launch of the Brussels Declaration. The Declaration is an important document, echoing the existing calls for a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights visit to West Papua […]

Lukas Enembe being visited in hospital by Rev. Dorman Wandikbo of GIDI Church Give the king Your judgments, O God, And Your righteousness to the king’s Son. He will judge Your people with righteousness, And Your poor with justice. The mountains will bring peace to the people, And the little hills, by righteousness. PSALM 72 […]

This article has been written by a West Papuan activist about the West Papuan churches condemning the Indonesian military and police   President of the Evangelical Church in West Papua and all Indonesia (GIDI Rev. Dorman Wandikbo has asserted that without security and escorts from the Indonesian security forces, military and police, the Papuan people […]

Press Release: Australia West Papuan Association 5 West Papuan prisoners granted clemency/media bans lifted for foreign journalists wanting to visit West Papua. Joe Collins of AWPA said, “although this first small step is encouraging, we should be cautious of Jokiei’s motives. Until all West Papuan political prisoners are unconditionally released and the lifting of travel […]

Amnesty International  says media and NGO access to the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua remains impeded and has called on Indonesia to change its attitude to foreign observers. Amnesty says President Joko Widodo promised, during his campaign in June 2014, to open up the regions. The international group says it has great difficulty […]