A crucial message for the UN is being delivered across Lake Geneva in a most unusual way, writes Danny Chivers. The New Internationalist Could you swim for 30 hours? Right now, a six-person swimming team is preparing to do exactly that, relay-style, across the 69 kilometres of Lake Geneva. On Monday 28 August, they will set offContinue reading “West Papuans swimming for freedom”
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A decade on, asylum-seekers’ struggle for West Papua
EXCLUSIVE DEBORAH CASSRELS, JOURNALIST@cassrelsd Under cover of darkness, 43 West Papuan asylum-seekers clambered aboard a dugout canoe at midnight. The cue to flee Indonesian persecution in the province of West Papua in January 2006 was urgent. They had been subjected to brutal repression at the hands of the Indonesian regime. Reports of government-sanctioned murders, politicalContinue reading “A decade on, asylum-seekers’ struggle for West Papua”
A decade on, asylum-seekers’ struggle for West Papua
EXCLUSIVE DEBORAH CASSRELS, JOURNALIST@cassrelsd Under cover of darkness, 43 West Papuan asylum-seekers clambered aboard a dugout canoe at midnight. The cue to flee Indonesian persecution in the province of West Papua in January 2006 was urgent. They had been subjected to brutal repression at the hands of the Indonesian regime. Reports of government-sanctioned murders, political…
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