Papua

Shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans have been taking place in Indonesia, UN-appointed rights experts said on Tuesday, citing child killings, disappearances, torture and enforced mass displacement. 

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed concern about reports of violent clashes between students and police in Port Moresby, the capital city of Papua New Guinea.

A five-member United Nations Disaster Assessment and Coordination (UNDAC) team has arrived in Papua New Guinea to help identify the aid needs of some 32,000 victims of severe sea swells that hit a wide extent of the northern shoreline and neighbouring islands.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his sadness at the death of Joseph Kabui, the first president of the Autonomous Bougainville Government in Papua New Guinea.

With the youngest in the group travelling in her mother’s shoulder bag, the United Nations refugee agency today helped 185 men, women and children from Indonesia’s Papua province complete the first phase of their voluntary relocation in neighbouring Papua New Guinea (PNG).

Eyeing the possibility of elections in Bougainville by the end of the year, the Security Council has agreed to a final six-month extension of the mandate of the United Nations mission there in order for it to finish tasks related to the implementation of the peace agreement between pro-independence groups and the Government of Papua New Guinea.

Lauding recent moves towards a comprehensive political settlement in Papua New Guinea, members of the Security Council today encouraged the parties there to resolve all remaining issues related to the island of Bougainville.