{"id":7262,"date":"2019-08-16T15:17:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T06:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/16\/west-papua-pacific-leaders-urge-un-visit-to-regions-festering-human-rights-sore"},"modified":"2019-08-16T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T06:17:07","slug":"west-papua-pacific-leaders-urge-un-visit-to-regions-festering-human-rights-sore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7262","title":{"rendered":"West Papua: Pacific leaders urge UN visit to region&#8217;s &#8216;festering human rights sore&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regional forum in Tuvalu \u2018strongly encourages\u2019 Indonesia to finalise UN visit to troubled province<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations high commissioner for human rights should investigate the deteriorating human rights situation in West Papua within a year, Pacific nations have resolved, as independence protests in the province were quashed by police with widespread arrests and one leader described it as the \u201cfestering human rights sore of the region\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Pacific leaders \u201cstrongly encouraged\u201d Indonesia to finalise the timing of a visit by the UN high commissioner to investigate the reported human rights abuses \u2013 including torture, extrajudicial killings, and systemic police and military violence \u2013 so the commissioner could provide an \u201cevidence-based, informed report\u201d before next year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/pacific-islands-forum\">Pacific Islands Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/16\/west-papua-pacific-leaders-urge-un-visit-to-regions-festering-human-rights-sore\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional forum in Tuvalu \u2018strongly encourages\u2019 Indonesia to finalise UN visit to troubled provinceThe United Nations high commissioner for human rights should investigate the deteriorating human rights situation in West Papua within a year, Pacific nat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,156,581,282,323,264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-pacific-islands-forum","category-south-pacific","category-vanuatu","category-west-papua"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7263,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7262\/revisions\/7263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}