A New Zealand pilot’s abduction focuses attention ... The Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide claims that the region bears many of the structural risk factors associated with ...

West Papua borders the independent nation of Papua New Guinea. The island has some 245 different tribal peoples. Indigenous peoples in West Papua and Papua New Guinea speak some 15% of the world's ...

A new wave of violence has hit the restive Indonesian region of West Papua after hundreds of protesters, mostly high school students, set fire to several buildings in a town on Monday. At least 23 ...