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The United Nations has heard Indonesia reject the latest claims of systematic human rights abuses inside West Papua. Earlier this month representatives from Vanuatu and Solomon Islands urged the UN ge...
French Polynesia is taking its first step towards independence after President Moetai Brotherson denounced ongoing colonialism from Paris in a speech at the United Nations.
Pacific leaders used their address at the 81st session of United Nations general assembly to urge Indonesia to permit the UN Human Rights High Commissioner unrestricted access to visit West Papua.
Pacific Islands Forum leaders travelled to New York to stand together as a unified regional voice at the 81st session of the United Nations general assembly this week.
Systemic issues in child protection involving Indigenous children have not been raised with the government at the United Nations, the Prime Minister says, despite multiple UN reports highlighting conc...
On the 19th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (the UN Declaration) as a global human rights standard, Canada's First Nations Leadership Council (FNL...
Melanesian leaders are stepping up pressure on Jakarta to facilitate a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights visit to West Papua.
The World Meteorological Organisation has predicted intensifying El Niño climate conditions will bring exceptionally warmer tropical weather to the Pacific Ocean than is usual over the coming m...
A proposal from the Indonesian government to conduct a new registration of internally-displaced Papuans across their conflict-affected territory has been condemned by the West Papua National Committee...
Kiribati is looking to strengthen food security levels through a program of climate-resilient agriculture, fisheries management and an offshore horticultural estate amid its scarce land, limited fresh...
Saturday will mark 64 years since the New York Agreement, which saw the West Papuan people "betrayed by the international community", the Australia West Papua Association noted this week.
The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples was marked around the globe on Monday. The United Nations-sanctioned date raises awareness of protecting the rights of the world's Indigenous po...
Prospective police officers from across the Pacific have been welcomed into training at Magandjin / Brisbane's state-of-the-art Pinkeba headquarters on the way to becoming United Nations peacekeepers.