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A total liberation of the oppressed and colonized people or groups or nations of the world.

11/12/2025

A reminder of the world we’re building together. One of dignity, freedom, and justice. For all.

Happy Human Rights Day. ✊🏾🌍

10/12/2025

From Benny Wenda

World Human Rights Day – December 10, 2025

As President of the ULMWP Provisional Government, I extend my unwavering support to the people of West Papua and all affiliated organizations, including KNPB, GR-PWP, the AMP Alliance of Papuan Students, women’s groups, and all Tatik organizations. On this World Human Rights Day, we come together to reaffirm our commitment to justice, peace, and the inherent rights and dignity of every individual.

This day is a reminder that human rights are universal and must be protected for all people, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, or background. For too long, the voices of West Papuans have been marginalized, and their basic rights denied. It is our duty to amplify those voices, stand in solidarity with the oppressed, and advocate for justice through peaceful and constructive action.

We call upon the international community, including the United Nations, human rights organizations, and global solidarity movements, to closely observe the situation in West Papua. It is crucial that the world bear witness to our struggle and support our pursuit of freedom, dignity, and equality.

Tomorrow, we will hold peaceful demonstrations to assert our rights and demand accountability. Let it be clear: our movement is committed to non-violence. We do not seek bloodshed or conflict, but rather justice, dialogue, and a path toward lasting peace.

As we unite in solidarity, we embrace our diversity and common humanity. Through collective action, determination, and brotherhood, we can create a future in which West Papua is free, its people live in dignity, and human rights are respected. Let this World Human Rights Day inspire all of us to persist in our struggle, to speak truth to power, and to build a more equitable, peaceful, and just world for generations to come.

Raki Ap Yonela GM Oswald Kucherera

25/10/2025

Where is the journey of Africa and its agenda for the liberation of Africa and Africans? What is the status of the revolutionary trajectory? Africa is between independence and liberation. Gaining political independence simply meant that Africans are free to decide whom they want among those who choose to contest for the leadership of the people.

When Africans met in 1963, they agreed on the theory and practice of the liberation agenda. The theory is that of building a totally and completely liberated continent, with Africans having access to the complete right of self-determination, respect, and dignity. The theory also added that this liberation shall affect all areas of life.

We say to remind ourselves of the revolutionary agenda, the cause for Africa to seek to be itself without undue influence. Let us make May 25 a National Public Holiday in South Africa. Please share, support, and endorse our petition to create a day of reflection, learning, and celebration of Africa and Africans by Solidarity Campaign ZA Chairperson.

Support, promote Africanness, and Africanity, sign our petition

Africa Day is not just a date in the calendar; it is the heartbeat of our liberation story. On the 25th of May 1963, African leaders came together to declare that the future of the continent could no longer be dictated by foreign powers, but by Africans themselves. This unity gave birth to the Organ...

04/09/2025

Africa Unite would like to ask you to sign our petition.

We demand that the Government declare May 25 a public holiday to commemorate the birth of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). This day, which was reborn as the African Union (AU) in Durban in 2002, symbolises our struggle for independence and unity. Please sign our petition using the link https://awethu.amandla.mobi/p/africadaynow

Establishing this holiday would empower schools and communities to teach our children about the significance of this day and cultivate pride in our Africanness. More importantly, Africa Day as a national holiday is about our future, fostering Pan-African unity, instilling the values of ubuntu, and reaffirming our commitment to the African Agenda 2063—a vision for a peaceful and prosperous Africa. By supporting this campaign, you’re advocating for pride, unity, and a collective African future.

21/12/2024

On behalf of the ULMWP and the people of West Papua, I send my deepest sympathy and solidarity to the people and government of Vanuatu as you battle this devastating earthquake.

I was deeply saddened to hear that fourteen people have died so far, and would like to convey my condolences to the families of all those who have lost loved ones during this tragedy. Government buildings, marketplaces, and residential houses have also been destroyed.

To the people of West Papua, I ask that you hold prayer meetings in solidarity with your Wantoks in Vanuatu. I also ask that you support fundraising activities to help with Vanuatu’s recovery. Vanuatu is our closest and most important friend, and we must stand with them in their time of crisis as they have always stood with us in ours.

May God bless Vanuatu during this extremely difficult time. West Papua is with you.

Benny Wenda
Interim President
ULMWP

01/12/2024

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The Free West Papua Solidarity Campaign is a movement formed after artists and activists came together to support the struggle of freedom and self-determination for the West Papuans from the Indonesian illegal occupation. It started in 2015 when Benny Wenda , then the Spokesperson of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP) first visited South Africa. Benny Wenda is currently in exile, he is based in Oxford London, where he went on to form the Free West Papua Campaign, when he escaped from the prison after serving 15 years.

In 2015, when Benny Wenda visited South Africa, he met internationally recognised leaders including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Uncle Ahmed Kathrada as he was affectionately known, may his soul continue to rest in peace, Mandla Mandela, the grandson of Dr Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first democratically elected president. He also met with community and church leaders including Reverend Xola Skosana. Benny Wenda had a few public lectures in Cape Town and on the one that took place in the city centre on the 21st of November, he recounted very sad accounts of excruciating experiences he went through during his childhood. Once, he watched his aunt being r***d by the heavily armed Indonesian soldiers. And while in school, a young light-skinned Indonesian girl spat on his face only because he is black. The colour of his skin was supposedly the crime he had committed. His was a wrong skin or is it? This school incident was his direct experience of the problem of apartheid and racism ,and later on fighting to free his people from the vices of racism and colonialism, he lamented ,” You think that because I am black, because I am Papuan, that I am dirty? I have eyes, I have hands, I am human- just like you. We are both human and we deserve to be treated the same. With respect.’

Benny Wenda’s experiences are not unique in any way but a microcosm of the grinding state of torture, humiliation and intimidation the West Papuans go through on daily basis. We can only imagine the degree of physical and psychological damage the women and children living under this constant state of terror, humiliation and intimidation. Only last week on Monday,104 KNPB activists were rounded up and arrested for celebrating the 10th anniversary of their movement and planning for the December 1st global flag raising event. This gripping and searingly painful story of conquest is not new on the African continent. Those who know the history of a genocide committed by King Leopold in the Democratic Republic Congo, in which approximately 8-10 million Africans were brutally killed. Until today, Congo has not recovered from this nightmare, there is gross human rights violations in the mineral rich Congo. Tim Butcher, a journalist shared a telling story about Congo on the event marking the remembrance of the Shikolowe nuclear disaster. He told a story when he went to Congo to cover a story, on his arrival, a villager asked him a question, ‘What are you here to take?’ He told the villager that he was there to cover a story, but the villager could not hear none of it. He went on to say,’ Everyone who comes here come to take, what are you here to take?’ This has been a typical relationship between Africa and Europe.

So who are the Papuans? The West Papuans are Africans who emigrated from Africa ‘tens of thousands’ of years ago and they are the indigenous people of West Papua. They have a very rich culture and their country is rich in minerals. Did you know that that the gold mine with the largest gold reserves is in West Papua? And what about the mine with the second largest oil reserves or the largest rainforest in the world? Unfortunately like in many African countries these resources do filter to the common Papuan on the ground. Multinational companies such as BP are making staggering profits and ship huge profits to their mother countries. Indonesia, Australia, United Kingdom and USA are the major beneficiaries of the exploitation, oppression and dispossession of the West Papuans. However South Africa have bilateral relations with Indonesia a country directly involved in committing mass murders in West Papua, to ensure the continuation of the plunder of West Papuan resources.

West Papua lies on the world’s second largest island, North of Australia, making up the western half of the island of Papua New Guinea. They got their independence in 1961 from the Dutch colonialists but unfortunately they were recolonized three months later by the Indonesian military government. And for the past fifty years they have been under Indonesian occupation. Student activists, journalists and political/cultural activists are behind bars for fighting for their rights, which they are currently denied by the Indonesian government. Some political activists including Filep Karma have been jailed for more than 15 years for daring to raise their independence flag (The Morning Star Flag).The world is turning a blind eye to this hidden genocide. Where is the United Nations? Where is the African Leadership? Where is African Union? Where is the African Intelligentsia? Only last year during the #UNGA, the West Papuan delegation led by Benny Wenda and other senior members from the United Liberation Movement of West Papua handed over to the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Gutires a petition with 1.8 million signatures collected from West Papua,70% of the total indigenous population. However, this was not acted upon. Let us keep on pushing pressure on these relevant structures so that West Papua becomes part of their agenda.

We call upon organisations, movements, political parties, governments, student activists, community activists, artists to join in raising awareness and put pressure on Indonesia to stop committing ‘crimes against humanity’ in West Papua. The Indonesian must do the right thing and withdrew their military forces out of West Papua.

And to South Africa, we encourage the democratically elected government of South Africa to cut the trading ties with Indonesia until the Indonesian military stop committing mass murders in West Papua and withdrew totally their military forces from West Papua. Merdeka Papua.

Yours in solidarity

*Free West Papua Solidarity Campaign- Cape Town*

Oswald kucherera 081 361 2043

Yonela Msongelwa 074 528 5483

*WE STAND FOR THE SELF-DETERMINATION OF WEST PAPUA

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