Human Rights Archives - Page 2 of 2 - United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP)

October 27, 2020 ULMWP Chair: Martial Law is being imposed in West Papua

The Indonesian government is imposing effective martial law on West Papua. There is no other...

February 12, 2020 ‘West Papua has no future in Indonesia’: Chairman Wenda’s Speech to MSG Foreign Ministers

Speech delivered by Chairman of the ULMWP, Benny Wenda, during the Foreign Ministers & Senior...

October 29, 2019 Benny Wenda: President Jokowi treating West Papua as holiday home in midst of human rights crisis

[Bahasa translation below] President Jokowi has made another trip to West Papua, treating it as...

October 4, 2019 URGENT STATEMENT: Indonesia must not move Agus Kossay and Buchtar Tabuni from West Papua to Jakarta

As Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), I call upon the...

September 24, 2019 ULMWP Chair: Urgent United Nations and Pacific Islands Forum intervention needed to prevent more massacres in West Papua

[Bahasa translation below] Twenty-nineteen is becoming the worst year in nearly six decades of illegal...

September 9, 2019 ULMWP Chair: Urgent action needed as Indonesia attempts to destroy West Papuan liberation movement

[Bahasa translation below] We are winning the struggle with Indonesia. Politically, legally, morally, our arguments...

August 30, 2019 URGENT ALERT: United Nations intervention needed before Santa Cruz like massacre takes place in West Papua

The people of West Papua need urgent international attention. I am calling on all the...

August 10, 2019 Press Release – ULMWP Chairman welcomes call for United Nations Human Rights Mission to West Papua

The Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), Benny Wenda has welcomed...

May 13, 2019 ULMWP Chairman: Indonesia must not execute West Papuan political prisoner Yogor Telenggen

As Chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP). I condemn in the...

May 9, 2019 UK Government calls Act of Free Choice ‘utterly flawed’ during historic parliamentary debate

The UK Parliament held a comprehensive hour-long debate into West Papuan human rights on Wednesday....

April 1, 2019 Human Rights Investigators: Bombs dropped, hospitals torched and thousands displaced in Nduga

A delegation from Front Line Defenders, a human rights monitoring group, has reported that over...

February 21, 2019 United Nations experts condemn human rights abuse and racism in West Papua

The largest group of independent experts within the UN human rights system has issued an...

February 2, 2019 Vanuatu refuses to back down to Indonesia over West Papua

The Foreign Minister of the Republic of Vanuatu, Hon. Ralph Regenvanu MP has reiterated Vanuatu’s...

November 13, 2018 ULMWP calls for an end to Indonesian military operations in West Papua

The ongoing joint Indonesian military and police operations in Lanny Jaya and the surrounding...

October 14, 2018 Statement on increasing violence in West Papua

Growing Indonesian state violence in West Papua – Several civilians reportedly killed 14th October 2018 Over...

October 9, 2018 International Coalition for West Papua, 2018 Third Quarter report

Published on Monday, 08 October 2018 on www.humanrightspapua.org The third quarter of 2018 was characterized...

September 21, 2018 West Papuans in more danger from Indonesian Security Forces, ahead of UN General Assembly

Statement from Benny Wenda, Chairman of ULMWP Ahead of next week’s 73rd session of the United...

August 14, 2018 West Papua will not celebrate Indonesian Independence Day

PUBLIC STATEMENT The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) wishes to inform the international...

February 21, 2018 Speech by ULMWP Chairman Benny Wenda at the 21st MSG Leaders Summit

On 14 February 2018. Honorable Peter O’Neil, Prime Minister of Papua New Gunea and...

May 20, 2017 Massacre of 5 people in 24 hours – Under Indonesia, West Papua is becoming another East Timor

May 20th 2017. This statement has been written by ULMWP Spokesperson Benny Wenda following the...

May 10, 2017 Indonesian government under pressure over record in Papua at the UN Universal Period Review

On May 3, 2017, Indonesia’s human rights record in West Papua and elsewhere was placed...

March 27, 2017 Media statement – West Papuan man shot dead by the Indonesian police in Yapen.

MEDIA STATEMENT 27th March, 2017 West Papuan man shot dead by the Indonesian police...

September 26, 2016 A Historic Choice: West Papua, human rights and Pacific diplomacy at the Pacific Island Forum and Melanesian Spearhead Group

The West Papuan movement for freedom is growing. And a wave of support is building...