Amnesty International UK's National Conference, held at Warwick University, 9th, 10th and 11th April 2010 Past The RESOLUTION on West Papua:
B2 Papua Province
Following the overwhelmingly carried resolution at 2008 AIUK AGM in Nottingham,
and noting the 2009 AI ICM references to International Justice, this AGM
instructs AIUK now to
. Highlight the many and various human rights infringements perpetrated in Papua Province and West Papua Province (the two areas comprise the entire area of what was formerly known as Netherlands New Guinea, and which is still known collectively by the indigenous population as West Papua), in campaigning awareness and resources, through the membership, to enable them to lobby the UK government as to the current internal refugee crisis in the province, and to demand that the UK government pressurises Indonesia to allow international monitors into the Papua Provinces to properly assess the human rights situation. . Through AIUK’s Dignity Campaign, in parallel with the obligations placed upon UK corporations by the ‘Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Agreement’, to challenge UK Corporations to acknowledge, record and report the human rights infringements that impact on the indigenous people of the Papua Provinces in terms of safety, freedom, the impact of pollution on health – cholera/HIV, deforestation, environmental impact, and impoverishing eviction, which occur in the area of their businesses within the Papua Provinces – in respect of AIUK’s focus on Economic, Cultural and Social rights. . Reflect on the fact that the indigenous people of the Papua Provinces have never been allowed a legitimate act of self-determination as guaranteed to all by Covenant of the United Nations, and to note Decision 9 of the 2005 ICM: Serious Violations and the Right to Self-Determination, wherein ‘The International Council decides without declaring itself for or against demands for self-determination of any particular group, that Amnesty International stresses that a number of human rights violations it denounces take place in the context of demands for self-determination, and that the failure to find a peaceful solution to such demands is at the origin of many human rights violations.’ ; to highlight, to allow the membership to be ever vigilant towards, the many human rights violations perpetrated by the Indonesian Government on the indigenous people of the Papua Provinces in this specific context. Proposer: Robert Melvyn Corn, Individual Member Seconder: Carol Rosemary Tarrant. Individual Member