Urgent Appeal Update: AHRC-UAU-034-2013

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Canadian activist Jeremy Bally has concluded his 12,000 kilometer, 7 country international bicycling and performance tour in West Papua, delivering letters collected from around the wor

The imprisonment of seven men in Sorong, Papua on 4 December 2013 highlights the ongoing criminalization of peaceful political activism in the region.

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-153-2013

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AHRC-STM-227-2013

For many years, Australia has been stealing the oil and gas from the Timor Sea, in an area which belongs to Timor-Leste under international legal principles.

On her trip to Indonesia to try and smooth relations with Jakarta over the spying scandal, our foreign minister should also be raising the crackdown on the recent peaceful rallies in We

The Australia East Timor Friendship Association of South Australia today released a statement regarding the spying scandal against Timor-Leste by Australian security.

The West Papua Advocacy Team (WPAT) strongly condemns ongoing Indonesian security force violence targeting peaceful West Papuan demonstrators.

Index: ASA 21/039/2013

"The Bintang Kejora flag raising ceremony on Dec. 1 is forbidden and those involved will be dealt with seriously" – National Police chief Gen.

This movement was established by the university students who are concerned about the serious crimes committed by the Indonesian soldiers from 1975-1999.

The Australia West Papua Association in Sydney congratulates Powes Parkop, the Governor of Port Moresby and the National Capital District on receiving the John Rumbiak Human Rights Defe

Manila, Philippines – Economic losses frrom climate change could reach as much as 10% of Timor-Leste's annual GDP by 2100, making it one of the worst hit in the Pacific, says a new Asia

Thousands of Indonesian women trafficked to Hong Kong risk slavery-like conditions as domestic workers, with both governments failing to protect them from widespread abuse and exploitat

Further information on 336/12 Index: ASA 21/036/2013

Truth and Justice are the foundations for developing democracy in Timor-Leste

November 12 is the 22nd anniversary of the Santa Cruz massacre.

Index: ASA 21/035/2013

West Papuan independence leader Mr. Benny Wenda is presently in Papua New Guinea (PNG). Throughout the month of November (2013) Mr.

WE MUST: (minimal) 50% wage increase
Abolish Outsourcing
Social Insurance for all the people
and STOP PRODUCTION (STRIKE) on a National Scale!

Liberation Greetings,

AHRC-PRL-017-2013

Today, on the 38th anniversary of the murder of the Balibo Five in East Timor, the Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is launching a campaign highlighting impunity over the killin

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-136-2013

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98 international and Pacific non-governmental organisations, academics, politicians and individuals have written to the leaders of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG), welcoming their

Six of the West Papuans who sought asylum in Australia after being persecuted for their involvement in a ceremonial handover of sacred water and ashes as part of the Freedom Flotilla, w

Index: ASA 21/0332013

West Papua Action Auckland is shocked to hear that the Government's training programme for the police in West Papua and Maluku is about to enter a new phase – a three year commitment in

Dr Richard Di Natale
Australian Greens Senator for Victoria

We are writing to express our deep concern about Westmont's planned sponsorship of a paid speaking engagement with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

West Papua Action Auckland,
Box 68-419,
Auckland

8 October 2013

Dr Richard Di Natale
Australian Greens Senator for Victoria

Australian Greens Senator, Richard Di Natale, today called on Trade Minister Andrew Robb to explain misleading remarks about West Papuans who visited the Australian consulate in Bali ov

"We ask for your help. We seek refuge and plea for our safety.

AWPA has faxed the below letter to the Australian Consulate in Bali seeking clarification if the 3 West Papuan students left voluntarily or if were told that they would be handed over t

Australian Greens Senator, Dr Richard Di Natale, today called for the Australian Government to immediately offer sanctuary to three West Papuans.

Urgent Appeal Update: AHRC-UAU-028-2013

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Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-127-2013

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The Honorable Barack Obama
President of the United States
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

October 3, 2013

The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) today urged President Obama to emphasize human rights and the rule of law in US-Indonesia relations.

Ian Rintoul – Yesterday at his press briefing, Immigration Minister, Scott Morrison, claimed that Australia had removed seven West Papuan asylum seekers to PNG last Friday on the basis

In Tony Abbot's Joint media conference with the Indonesian President he said,

West Papua Action Auckland,
Box 68-419,
Auckland.

30 September 2013

"The Indonesian government needs to explain why police officers found it necessary to fire directly into a crowd of protesters throwing rocks.

Prime Minister Abbott should use his first foreign trip as head of state to put human rights at the heart of Australia's foreign policy.

Havana – In a bilateral meeting with his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro, last Friday in Havana (or Saturday morning in Timor-Leste), H.E.

Yesterday (25/9) a delegation of Papuan human rights defenders met with the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (UNWGEID) in Geneva to follow-up on the case of Ar

Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop are visiting Indonesia at the end of September.

Allegations raised in this release have been verified independently by WPM.

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-124-2013

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