Two New Zealanders have been awarded the 2014 John Rumbiak Human Rights Defenders Award for their work pushing for improved human…

The KNPB has reported that a six of their activists were arrested, beaten and taken to the Jayapura Police Station yesterday afternoon, 3 July.…

Timika – Police are searching for people who distributed leaflets urging voters to boycott the July 9 presidential election and demand…

Port Moresby – The Government of Vanuatu will continue raising the issue on West Papua to the UN.

After the meeting of Melanesia Spearhead…

The Vanuatu Prime Minister Joe Natuman says the government is still looking at pushing the West Papua issue at the United Nations…

The Vanuatu Prime Minister Joe Natuman says the onus is on Indonesia to allow West Papuan groups to partake in a more inclusive…

The Australia West Papua Association says a rally of independence supporters in Jayapura yesterday was peaceful and not attended by…

The 1st July is a very important day in the West Papuan struggle for self-determination and independence. On 1st of July in 1971, West Papuan…

A human rights advocacy group is calling for a new Indonesian government to end human rights abuses by previous governments, and bring…

Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders say they want to take a more proactive approach alongside Indonesia to help address the development needs of…

The Free West Papua Campaign says Dutch New Guinea veterans are angry they have been stopped from carrying the West Papuan Morning…

Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders meeting in Port Moresby have indicated that the West Papua National Coalition for Liberation's bid to join the…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – Police said that two firearms, some traditional weapons and a thousand rounds of ammunition seized in a Jayapura raid…

Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders meeting this week in the Papua New Guinea capital are expected to formulate a decision on a West…

Port Moresby, PNG – The Free West Papua Campaign PNG chapter is appealing to the members of Parliament for the West Papua's membership in the…

Siteri Sauvakacolo – The Indonesian embassy in Fiji says no one has the right to interfere in matters relating to West Papua.

Responding to…

A new office for the self-declared Federal Republic of West Papua has been opened in Australia.

The office in Melbourne's Docklands business…

The organisation calling itself the Federal Republic of West Papua is today opening an office in Melbourne.

The Minister for…

Councilor Amanda Stone from the Yarra City Council is cutting the ribbon on the Federal Republic of West Papua's new office in Docklands (…

Kursi Istana, Jayapura – Human rights activists and organisations have launched the Movement Against Forgetting in Papua. The activists are…

Tevita Vuibau – Churches in Fiji and the region are throwing their voices behind self determination for West Papua. Their support comes as the…

Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he would explain his policies on Papua during his visit to Fiji, where he will attend a meeting…

There are renewed calls for United Nations monitors to be allowed in to Indonesia's troubled Papua provinces, to verify what human rights groups…

Jakarta – US Ambassador Robert Blake has highlighted growing cooperation between the US government and its counterparts in Indonesia, including…

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Another shooting incident occurred in Jayapura, Papua, on Saturday, highlighting the fragile security situation in…

Churches in the Solomon Islands have agreed to actively support the struggle for political independence of the people of West Papua.

The…

The United Nations Human Rights Council's current session has heard concerns that freedom of expression and peaceful assembly continue…

Harry Pearl, Jakarta – New Zealand's ambassador to Indonesia, in response to allegations that his country had a hidden motive behind a police…

The journalist who revealed Indonesia's move to pull out of a New Zealand-funded police training programme in West Papua says he…

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – Indonesian officials keep sending mixed messages regarding the contract renegotiation with Freeport Indonesia –…

Harry Pearl & Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Indonesia has axed a multimillion dollar police training program in West Papua because police…

Banjir Ambarita, Jayapura – A joint group of soldiers and police officers shot Rudi Orerei, the alleged leader of an armed group in…

A Joint Oral Statement by the Asian Legal Resource Center (ALRC), Franciscans International (FI), International Coalition for Papua (ICP),…

A graphic novel advocating West Papuan independence has been released online, as part of efforts to provide an alternative version of…

Admin MS, Jayapura – West Papua National Committee (KNPB) spokesperson Basoka Logo is calling on all Papuan people to boycott the 2014…

Satria Sambijantoro and Raras Cahyafitri, Jakarta – The outgoing administration will not ink an extension deal with PT Freeport Indonesia…

Wutung, PNG – - The Indonesia-PNG border was officially opened on Tuesday this week but closed down again three hours later due to the killing of…

Sita W. Dewi, Jayapura – Presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo says he wants to develop soccer in Papua as it already has…

Sita W. Dewi, Jayapura – Presidential candidate Joko "Jokowi" Widodo pledged on Thursday to open access to Papua and West Papua for foreign…

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is to attend the D-day anniversary celebrations in France and will stop in Indonesia briefly to meet with…

A South East Asia politics and history specialist says it's unlikely that the next president of Indonesia will be as focussed on the West Papua…

The global activist network Anonymous has launched a campaign to raise attention on censorship and the killings of indigenous West…

The six-million dollar program was scheduled to begin in the first half of this year but Indonesia has told the New Zealand Government that it is…

Advocates for West Papuan self-determination have called for a UN decolonisation committee to be consistent and make a fact finding…

[Commentary from the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG).]

West Papua, comprised of the provinces (Papua and Papua Barat) is the…

The New Zealand government has confirmed that its planned community policing training programme in Indonesia's Papua region will not…

Advocates for the independence of West Papua say a UN decolonisation committee should visit the Indonesian province.

The United…

The Special Committee on Decolonization will hold its Pacific Regional Seminar in Nadi, Fiji, from 21 to 23 May 2014.

Joe…

The Pacific Conference of Churches is calling on leaders attending a United Nations meeting on decolonisation this week in Fiji to…

The West Papua Coalition for Liberation says the new Vanuatu Prime Minister Joe Natuman will continue the good work of his predecessor…