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Aide-Mémoire - 13th UN Human Rights Council (1 Mar 2010)
Watch Indonesia!, WPN, Diakonie & VEM - Indonesia: The government must reign in on increasing violence and restrictions of free expression. These four organisations urge the UN Human Rights Council to focus on the deteriorating human rights situation in the provinces of Papua, the repression and persecution faced by human rights defenders, arbitrary limitations on the right to free expression, and the ongoing impunity for serious human rights violations.

How to deliver peace in troubled Papua province (1 Mar 2010)
The Jakarta Post - what the people of Papua basically need is recognition ‘as a different identity, a different culture and an equal partner within Indonesia’.

Indonesia's Protected Forests Now Open to Development (1 Mar 2010)
The Jakarta Globe - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has signed a decree to allow mining, power plants and other projects deemed strategically important to take place in protected forests. The decree, which took effect on Feb. 1, is certain to anger environmental groups given that the country already has one of the fastest rates of deforestation in the world.

Written statement for the Human Rights Council on Human Rights in Indonesia and Papua specifically (1 Mar 2010)
Written statement submitted by the International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID) a non-governmental organization in special consultative status and IMPARSIAL. On the 'Situation of Human Rights Defenders in Indonesia 2009'; 'Papua'; 'Laws and bills that endangering HRD'; 'A hope of protection'; and 'Recommendations'.

Indonesia conflict history updated by ICG (28 Feb 2010)
International Crisis Group - The Crisis Group has updated the online conflict history of Indonesia. This includes, among others, a paragraph on Papua (Papua and West Papua Provinces).