The All-Party Parliamentary Group on West Papua was held in Westminster on October 12th. Chaired by International Parliamentarians for West Papua members Lord Harries of Pentregrath and Alan Whitehead MP the meeting was attended by academics, parliamentarians, activists, NGOs, including Amnesty International, and others working on West Papua. Items discussed during the meeting were the.

International Parliamentarians for West Papua (IPWP) is happy to announce that New Zealand Labour MP Louisa Wall has become the latest signatory to join the growing international group of politicians that have signed up to the West Papua declaration. Please write to your local MP, senator or political representative and ask them to join the.

The International Parliamentarians for West Papua has called for an internationally-supervised vote on independence in West Papua. Also present were members of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua which was last year granted observer status at the Melanesian Spearhead Group. One of those in attendance was the Vanuatu government minister Ralph Regenvanu who spoke.