Demonstrations have been held around the Pacific to mark the anniversary of West Papua's declaration of independence when the Morning Star flag was first raised.

Paul Gregoire – On September 26, West Papuan leader Benny Wenda presented a petition to the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation (C24) calling for an internationally supervised vote on West Papua

Nabire, Jubi – International Academics for West Papua (IAWP) is a network that was started in 2016 by a group of academics concerned about the ongoing human rights abuses in West Papua, will launch

A series of concerts around the globe to assist the persecuted people of West Papua is being held on Saturday with the Coronation Hotel in West Ipswich playing its part.

Danaella Wivell – The plight of West Papua to gain independence from Indonesia is spreading to Cairns.

Huia Welton – Unions representing 320,000 Kiwi workers have strongly endorsed the right of the people of West Papua to self-determination.

Campaigners for improved human rights in West Papua are swimming to the United Nations in Geneva today carrying a petition calling for action in the Indonesian territory.

A British team was today swimming a crushing 30 hours and covering 69 km straight across Lake Geneva to deliver a petition calling for self-determination in West Papua to the United Nations.

In June 2017 labour historian and activist Jeff Rickertt visited Indonesia with Bob Carnegie, Queensland state secretary of the Maritime Union of Australia.

Produce and directed by Ash Brennan and narrated by Basia Bonkowski, Punks for West Papua is a documentary about how the United Nations betrayed the people of West Papua and how one man's selfless

Danny Chivers – Could you swim for 30 hours? Right now, a six-person swimming team is preparing to do exactly that, relay-style, across the 69 kilometres of Lake Geneva.

Jonas Cullwick – Last week's 14th Pacific Regional ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly in Port Vila issued a five-point position of the issue of West Papuan independence.

James Borrowdale – The independence movement is largely ignored by wider – whiter – New Zealand society.

Jakarta – Amnesty International and Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, have called for the end of human rights violations in Palestine in light of the Israeli government's 50

Kendall Hutt, Auckland – Political support in New Zealand for an independent West Papua is growing after a "historic declaration" was signed during free West Papua advocate Benny Wenda's visit to t

Jayapura, Jubi – West Papua's most famous ex-political prisoner, Filep Karma who was sentenced to 15 years in jail just for raising the West Papuan flag, has visited the Netherlands where alongside

James Borrowdale – Benny Wenda looked entirely incongruous as his face hovered over a plate of bacon and eggs, his chieftain's neckwear, pig tusks at the end of a necklace adorned by shells – he ca

Johnny Blades – This week's visit to New Zealand by a West Papuan independence leader has thrown the polarisation around his cause into stark relief.

MPs from four New Zealand political parties have signed a declaration by the International Parliamentarians for West Papua.

Kendall Hutt, Auckland – A lifelong campaigner for a free and independent West Papua has issued a stark warning to New Zealand politicians as he visits the country this week.

International support for West Papuan self-determination cause is growing, according to a Papuan independence leader.

Mania Clarke – West Papuan independence leader, Benny Wenda has returned to Aotearoa to gain support from indigenous Maori and Pacific people as part of a campaign to free his country.

The following letter has been emailed to the new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gerry Brownlee today, World Press Freedom Day.

Jon Andrews, Bayside Leader – Painters and Dockers' famous, flamboyant frontman Paul Stewart says he owes his life to the nuns of East Timor.

John Masaba – Parliament of Uganda has pledged to support West Papua, a province of Indonesia fighting for independence to realise its dream.

New Zealand's parliament has been presented with a public petition urging government action on the human rights situation in West Papua.

Jane Lee – A man is refusing to pay a $500 fine for trespassing at an Indonesian consulate to protest against its presence in West Papua, saying Australia has sold him out.

An Aboriginal elder and artist says she's upset a mural she created in support of West Papua has been destroyed but it won't stop her, or her community, from advocating for the region's independenc

Kieran Banks – A final protest to save a mural dedicated to the persecuted women of West Papua failed to prevent the piece of cultural art from being destroyed.

Jewel Topsfield – A 42-year-old protester has been charged with trespassing on the Indonesian consulate-general in Melbourne after an incident which came at a time of renewed tensions in the bilate

About 20 protesters in support of West Papuan self-determination were defiant in the face of Indonesian nationalism "blasted at them from the embassy" and a police response in Canberra at the weeke

A global petition calling on the United Nations to put West Papua back on its decolonisation list has been launched in Britain.

Stephen Jeffery – The friends of a man fined for refusing to cooperate with police during a protest outside the Indonesian Embassy expressed concern that he was kept in custody for almost 24 hours.

The Free West Papua Campaign invites you to help us launch our 2017 campaign: #BackTheSwim & #LetWestPa

Len Garae – The five most prominent Ni-Vanuatu charitable organisations in the country led by the Vanuatu Free West Papua Association (VFWPA), have petitioned the Australian Government to "stop kil

Jakarta – The hoisting of a separatist Free Papua Movement flag at the Indonesian Consulate General in Melbourne on Friday was a crime that had to be investigated by the Australian police.

Sheany, Jakarta – Spokesman of the Indonesian Embassy in Australia Sade Bimantara said on Saturday (07/01) that an investigation into a breach at the Indonesian Consulate General in Melbourne is on

Tama Salim, Jakarta – Indonesia has condemned the flying of a Papuan Morning Star flag on the premises of an Indonesian mission in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday.

Rachael Hocking – A West Papuan activist has described Indonesia as 'hyper-sensitive,' for its decision to suspend a language-training programme in Australia.

Jakarta – Indonesian ambassador-designate to New Zealand, Tantowi Yahya, has made it his mission to inform the people of the South Pacific nation about the improved conditions in Papua and West Pap

Lice Movono – As futile as it may seem, your voices can make a difference in the Free West Papua movement, a group of young Pacific Island activists told students today.

We, the undersigned organisations, express our support to the struggle of the people of West Papua for self-determination.

Pita Ligaiula in Nairobi, Kenya – Pacific regional civil society delegates attending the High Level Meeting (HLM2) in Nairobi Thursday commemorated the West Papua flag raising ceremony.

New Zealand MPs were among those demonstrating today in cities across the country to raise the West Papuan nationalist flag.

A group demonstrating in front of an Indonesian naval ship in Auckland raised the Morning Star flag in support of West Papuans.

A conference getting underway in Sydney today looks to address two major areas of concern to people in the Pacific region in the same sitting.

The Dutch royals were welcomed to Canberra by a little half-Dutch girl, a protester for West Papua, and a slew of Australians with Dutch heritage.

Jayapura, Jubi – The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society is pleased to announce the publication of a Policy Brief in conjunction with the University of Warwick Politics of Papua Project, which

The international playoff match in the Central Java city of Solo on September 6 didn't just result in a 3-0 victory by Indonesia over Malaysia.

A petition has been tabled in New Zealand's parliament calling on the government to make a number of representations on the plight of West Papuans.