NGOs petition

Vanuatu NGOs petition govt to follow up on West Papua outcomes

VANGO wants the government to report on the outcome of the recent Pacific Island Forum summit in Tuvalu and on the plight of West Papuan students in Indonesia's Java.

At the summit, Forum leaders adopted a stronger stand on pushing Indonesia over human rights abuses in Papua.

Shortly after the summit, racist harassment of Papuan students in Javanese cities triggered the biggest protests seen in decades in Papua, and related unrest.