The Australian chapter of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP) held its first public meeting on Monday 17th August at Parliament House in Canberra. This historic meeting, which took place on the same day as the 81st anniversary of Indonesia’s Independence Day, was hosted by Senator David Shoebridge, IPWP Vice Chair for Australia, and marks a.

The IPWP expresses its profound concern about the EU–Indonesia FTA, which effectively gives EU approval to continued widespread deforestation in West Papua, and rides roughshod over the human rights of West Papuans, who have suffered under Indonesian occupation for over six decades. On 23 September 2025, after nine years of negotiations, the EU and Indonesia.

Chair of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP), Alex Sobel MP, this week met the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Volker Turk in Geneva while at the 61st Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The pair discussed the OHCHR visit to West Papua, which was first promised by.