West Papua: Supporters of Self-Determination Present Petition to British Foreign Office | West Papua Action Network

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West Papua: Supporters of Self-Determination Present Petition to British Foreign Office | West Papua Action Network: https://unpo.org/article/21246

Nov 23, 2018

West Papua: Supporters of Self-Determination Present Petition to British Foreign Office

Last year, West Papuan activists gathered a total of 1.8 million signatures and thumbprints on a petition to the United Nations asking for respect for the self-determination of the West Papuan community. This last month, October 2018, supporters of the petition were able to present it at the Foreign Office in the United Kingdom with the hopes that the Britain use its power in the UN to speak out against such colonialist practices.

The article below was published by the Guardian:

Every colonial enterprise pretends to be inspired by something other than theft. The General Act of the Berlin Conference in 1885, under which the European powers carved Africa into formal colonial possessions, claimed that their purpose was “furthering the moral and material wellbeing of the native populations … and bringing home to them the blessings of civilisation”.