Political Rights?

New York Agreement UN headquarters, 15 August 1962 It was a whitewash. Nobody gave a thought to the fact that a million people had their fundamental rights trampled CV Narasimhan UN Under Sec-Gen (1958-1978) speaking on 22 Nov 2001.

FEDERATED REPUBLIC OF WEST PAPUA Elected by 5000 registered participants at 3rd Papua Congress on 19 October 2011 to negotiate the delivery of independence and self-determination

Human rights?
Yawan Wayeni, Matembu Village Serui Island, 2 August 2009 he falls trying to escape after being shot and bayoneted in front of his wife and three children six soldiers stand around watching, smoking, taunting where is your God and independence now? one soldier records Yawans slow agonizing death on his mobile telephone

UN INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS ARTICLE 1.1 All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES ARTICLE 3 Indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development ARTICLE 26 Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the lands, territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as well as those which they have otherwise acquired

3rd Papua Congress October 2011 SAMPARI with the TIFA drum delivering the peoples message to their politicians

Land rights?

Prime Minister Edison Waromi Federated Republic of West Papua Lawyer, political prisoner 19891999, 2001, 2002, 20032004, 2012-2015

Dani village Liz Thompson Prowling Tiger Press 2003 Logging transmigration camp Irian Jaya National Geographic March 2001

INDONESIAN CONSTITUTION PREAMBLE Whereas freedom is the inalienable right of all nations, colonialism must be abolished in this world as it is not in conformity with humanity and justice

Environmental rights?

Imagine that a foreign corporation arrived one day with your national government's blessing and seized your home; destroyed your grocery store, local farms and gardens, your church, your favorite park; polluted your drinking and bathing water; created hazardous waste dumps throughout your town; blocked your efforts to seek justice through the courts; bankrolled the police who tortured, raped, and killed family and friends for trying to resist this destruction of your way of life. Freeport was not required to compensate local communities for the loss of their food gardens, hunting and fishing grounds, drinking water, forest products, sacred sites, and other elements of the natural environment Mining a Sacred Land, Freeport in West Papua, Abigail Abrash Walton 2001 PhotoFreeport David Adam Stott (www.japanfocus.org/-David_Adam-Stott/3597

President Forkorus Yaboisembut Federated Republic of West Papua ChairmanDewan Adat PapuaPapua Tribe Council; Political prisoner 20122015