This website is dedicated to raising awareness about West Papua’s legal right to independence and supporting West Papua’s increasing number of refugees and internally displaced persons. An estimated 45,000 people have recently been made homeless as the Indonesian military terrorises villagers with military sweeping operations. Thousands have also fled to neighbouring Papua New Guinea living in remote camps along the border.
The Free Papua Movement aims to end the ongoing oppression in West Papua and bring freedom to the Papuan people. A humanitarian crisis is ongoing with the death of an estimated 500,000 West Papuans since the take-over by Indonesia in 1963. Legal scholars and academics describe the conditions as meeting the definition of genocide under the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment for the Crime of Genocide (see Journal Articles).
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Launch of the Campaign for United Nations Security Council Intervention For West Papua Saturday 26 June 2021, 10am – 3.30pm Queensland Council of Unions Level 2, 16 Peel St, South Brisbane DECLARATION IN TEXT We would like to bring this attention seriously to the global communities in the name of humanity and respect of human […]
9 March 2022 The Free Papua Movement / Organisasi Papua Merdeka (TPNPB-OPM) welcomes the statement by the United Nations ‘Joint Communication from Special Procedures’ by the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions and the Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced […]
Shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans have been taking place in Indonesia, UN-appointed rights experts said on Tuesday, citing child killings, disappearances, torture and enforced mass displacement. “Between April and November 2021, we have received allegations indicating several instances of extrajudicial killings, including of young children, enforced disappearance, torture and inhuman treatment and the forced displacement […]
Indonesia: UN experts sound alarm on serious Papua abuses, call for urgent aid GENEVA (1 March 2022) – UN human rights experts* today expressed serious concerns about the deteriorating human rights situation in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua, citing shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans, including child killings, disappearances, torture and mass displacement […]