West Papua Action Aotearoa - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 20 Nov 2022 17:49:01 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg West Papua Action Aotearoa - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Papuan solidarity group criticises NZ for ‘weak' concern over Indonesian human rights abuses https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/11/21/papuan-solidarit-group-nz-indonesian-human-rightsabuse/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 06:54:42 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=154388 The solidarity group West Papua Action Aotearoa has criticised New Zealand for not "being stronger" over growing global concern about Indonesian human rights violations in West Papua, and contrasted this with Vanuatu's leadership. The group was reacting to the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review into Indonesia report in Geneva last week. "Eight countries Read more

Papuan solidarity group criticises NZ for ‘weak' concern over Indonesian human rights abuses... Read more]]> The solidarity group West Papua Action Aotearoa has criticised New Zealand for not "being stronger" over growing global concern about Indonesian human rights violations in West Papua, and contrasted this with Vanuatu's leadership.

The group was reacting to the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review into Indonesia report in Geneva last week.

"Eight countries raised issues about human rights in West Papua and it is good to see our government among them," said Catherine Delahunty, spokesperson for West Papua Action Aotearoa, in a statement. Read more

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