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Australian Foreign Minister speaks to Free West Papua activists on Anniversary of “Act of Free Choice” http://freewestpapua.org/go/1796 Today Free West Papua activists addressed the Australian government head on with important questions about supporting the West Papuan people. Please read the report on the Australian Foreign Minister today below, written by Australians for a Free West […]

The Australia West Papua Association is calling on Pacific Islands Forum leaders to address the human rights situation in Indonesia’s Papuan provinces. Its call comes in the lead up to the 46th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Summit to be held in Papua New Guinea in September. The group says Indonesia’s security forces used excessive and […]

On 4-6 July protesters held a Free West Papua demonstration outside the Northern Territory Parliament in Darwin, Australia. They built a traditional West Papuan honai hut as a West Papuan Embassy and called upon the Parliament to speak to them about West Papuan independence. Protesters marched to the honai Embassy outside the Indonesian Embassy in Darwin. The demonstration was widely […]

ABC News has made this report on the freedom struggle and Five key things to know about West Papua.  Please watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp_d4UzEqpY Thanks very much to ABC for making this important report letting the world know about the situation in West Papua. http://www.abc.net.au/…/five-key-things-to-know-abo…/6625096

International French Radio, RFI has released this 10 minute report on foreign journalists and media freedom in West Papua and how both are still effectively banned by the Indonesian government.   http://www.english.rfi.fr/asia…/20150705-press-freedom-papua Last year 2 French journalists were jailed by the Indonesian authorities just for reporting in West Papua. If Indonesia has nothing to hide in occupied […]

The situation in the Indonesian province of West Papua is similar to East Timor just before independence, a West Papuan activist has announced at a protest in Darwin. A group of about 60 people have erected a temporary hut embassy outside Parliament House, calling for West Papuan independence from Indonesia.   Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-06/papuan-rotesters-at-parliament-house-in-darwin/6597898

Free West Papua activists evicted After two days of demonstrating outside the parliament building in Northern Territory, Australia. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/08/west-papua-activists-evicted-from-northern-territory-parliament-grounds A group of West Papua activists has been evicted from the grounds of the Northern Territory Parliament House in Darwin after they erected a hut as an “embassy” and spent two days protesting against Indonesian human rights […]

New article from Australia. Please read. West Papuans face ignorance, corruption and racism from Jakarta. Indonesia claims there is “still a lot more land” in West Papua they can take and give to more Javanese transmigrants. Indonesia to divide West Papua into small provinces “for security reasons, to guard this ‘huge area’ against ‘foreign intervention”. […]

News from ABC Australia. West Papua formally recognised by Melanesia group. For the first time a coalition of West Papuan nationalist groups has been given formal diplomatic recognition after being admitted to a regional grouping of Melanesian countries. At its leaders summit in Solomon Islands the Melanesian Spearhead Group has decided to grant the United […]

Read more and take action> http://bit.ly/1KeLonP Thank you very much Amnesty International Australia for posting this and helping to shine a light on the Indoensian brutality in West Papua.