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Indonesia bleeding-out in Papua
Indonesia bleeding-out in West Papua as Jakarta moves to shut down three ‘resistance’ faculties at Cenderawasih University in Jayapura
Papuans want UN Decolonisation Agenda; Indonesia rolls out tanks
Majority support for listing West Papua on UN Decolonisation Agenda despite the Indonesian government rolling out tanks, commandoes and police onto the streets of Manokwari and Jayapura
Vanuatu appoints Lini Special Envoy for West Papua
ULMWP Executives Benny Wenda and Jacob Rumbiak are in Vanuatu to celebrate the Pacific nation’s 38th year of independence.
Vanuatu renders Solomonic appointment for West Papua
The Government of Vanuatu has appointed Ms Laura Lini as Special Envoy for West Papua. Laura is the daughter of Walter Lini, the founding father of the Pacific Island republic.
Strafing a village from a helicopter isn’t democracy
Strafing a Papuan village from helicopter gunships isn't democracy.
Indonesia fire-bombs a heritage highland village where indigenous Papuans have lived for thousands of years
ULMWP advises Jokowi to remove Indonesia from Security Council
ULMWP Executive Jacob Rumbiak advises President Jokowi to remove Indonesia from UN Security Council
Indonesia fouls its membership of UN Security Council
ULMWP Executive claims Indonesia fouls its membership of UN Security Council
Indonesia continues to hunt Papuan soldiers and civilians
Indonesia continues to hunt Papuan soldiers and civilians in high-mountain forest
Deakin University academic on palm oil in West Papua
A presentation by American anthropologist Dr Eben Kirksey to FRWP Office in Docklands on 8 April 2018, which included drone-footage of the huge area of the Marind tribes' land that is being deforested for palm oil plantation. Eben explained its devastating effect on the fragile environment, and demonstrated how palm-oil based products is mostly consumed by populations in non-palm-oil producing countries.
Vanuatu gifts West Papuans block of land in Port Vila
West Papuans shining with reviewed hope and strength after Vanuatu leaders gift them a block of land in Port Vila
West Papua, Annette Culley, ‘State responsibility in international law’
This legal paper by Annette Culley for the Federal republic of West Papua office in Docklands (Victoria, Australia) affirms that States have a responsibility to protect all those within their territory; that third States have a right and obligation to complain of wrongful acts committed by a sovereign State; and finally, that sovereignty comes under question where a people within a sovereign state are subject to alien subjugation or serious violations of their human rights. This 24,000-word publication (100 x A5 pages) is downloadable (below) and can be quoted providing that the usual creditations are incorporated.
Federal Republic of West Papua publishes important new book
This book traces the shift in international law during the twentieth century from states' rights to people's rights, and how the norms of jus cogens (rules that cannot be derogated from) have broadened to include self-determination, genocide, slavery, torture, murder and the disappearance of individuals. It brings together all the UN resolutions, and principles, and rules that have been applied, or ignored, in the case of West Papua’s occupation, and analyses the relationship between occupied West Papua and international law. The booklet (160 x A5 pages) is downloadable (below) and can be quoted from providing the usual creditations are incorporated.
MSG: Bring West Papua in, kick Indonesia out
On 29 April 2016 a large peace rally in Port Vila concluded at the Secretariat of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, with thousands calling on the inter-governmental summit to invite West Papua to become a full member in 2016.
Australian Army officer fuses glass for West Papua’s Sampari Art Exhibition
This extended essay is about two unique Australians and the startling symbols they employed to demonstrate their support of West Papuans right to self-determination. Army Officer (ret.) Barbara Tipper's fused-glass sculpture of a baby turtle in the Raja Ampat Islands was a feature of the 2015 Sampari Art Exhibition for West Papua. Dr Jon Kozeniauskas, who bought the sculpture, is a Collins St dental specialist. In October 2000 used his Giallo Moderno Ferrari to carve out media space for West Papua which the Australian government had surreptitiously shut down after East Timor's independence in 1999. In 2001 he bought a baby pig for independence leader Jacob Rumbiak, which in a few months changed the delusory perception of West Papuans as Indonesians of Southeast Asia to West Papuans as Melanesians of the Pacific.
Vigil at St Paul’s Cathedral for West Papua’s application to join the MSG
On 15 May 2015, on the eve of the Melanesian Spearhead Group Summit in Honiara (Solomon Islands), Revd Dr Andreas Loewe, Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne, joined Revd Heather Patacca and the FRWP Women’s Office in a sunset Prayer Vigil for West Papua. This photo-essay includes the glorious images taken by acclaimed Australian photographer Dean Golja during the moving prayer service.
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