News and statements

President Wenda: Happy 44th Independence Day to Vanuatu

July 30, 2024 in Statement On behalf of the people of West Papua, I wish Vanuatu a happy 44th Independence...

Today we mark the 53rd anniversary of the 1971 OPM independence declaration by unveiling the English translation of our ULMWP...

May 13, 2024 in Speech Below is the speech that ULMWP President Benny Wenda gave in the Scottish Parliament on...

January 22, 2024 in Statement A meeting held today (22nd January 2024) at the European Parliament called for the United...

Below is the speech that ULMWP Interim President Benny Wenda gave at Oxford Town Hall on December 1, 2023. In...

I am greatly honoured to have been elected as President of the ULMWP Provisional Government at the historic Congress that...

As a leader of the West Papuan liberation movement, I welcome the ULMWP Congress currently taking place in Jayapura. I...

I was pleased to speak about West Papua on a panel at a conference of the Peace and Justice Project...

Indonesian President Jokowi has again shown that he is an arch-hypocrite when it comes to West Papua. Jokowi confronted US...

On behalf of the West Papuan people, I am calling on all our supporters, our lawyer groups, parliamentarians, our solidarity...

As a leader of the West Papuan liberation movement, I welcome the opening of the 2023 West Papua People’s Forum...

I was deeply saddened to hear about the two West Papuan mothers who were raped and mutilated by Indonesian soldiers...

Below is the full version of the speech that Benny Wenda gave to an IPWP meeting in the UK Parliament...

The International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP) held a major meeting in the UK Parliament yesterday (October 18th 2023), calling...

Two very worrying trends are emerging from Indonesia’s current military escalation in West Papua: the targeting of children and the...