International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP) is happy to announce that Australian Greens Deputy Leader and Senator for Western Australia Scott Ludlam, has become the latest signatory to join the growing international group of politicians that have signed up to the West Papua declaration.

There is a new wave of political support growing for West Papua’s legal right to self determination. People writing to their MP’s really does work. Thanks to everyone who has been emailing their politicians asking them to support West Papua’s legal right to self-determination. International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP) is happy to announce seven.

The Prime Minister of Vanuatu, Moana Carcasses called for international action on West Papua at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva today. Following on from his speech at the UN last September, Mr Carcasses focused his speech on the “chronic human rights challenges that has affected the … peoples of West Papua since.