On the warmest 30th of October in Dutch recorded history, the West Papua football team walked onto the field of Quick in The Hague for a new football match. Since…
By Jeroen Zandberg The FUEN Congress (The article is also in Dutch and can be read following this link) From September 29 to October 1, 2022, more than a hundred…
I want to briefly raise an issue very relevant to the topic of development and human rights. The Dutch government has recently launched a new agricultural policy, whereby the provinces…
At the 1-2 September 2022 conference: Human Rights Council, Europe and Central Asia seminar. The contribution of development to the enjoyment of all human rights, at the panel: The essential…
The secretary of the Football Association West Papua, Jeroen Zandberg, was elected as CONIFA’s new General Secretary on 7 August 2022. Sophia Bunga-Sapioper interviews him about his new position. You…
On 4 to 8 July 2022, the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) held its 15th session in Geneva, Switzerland. The theme of this year’s edition was:…
Distinguished guests, I wish to describe the situation of the Rehoboth Basters. The Rehoboth Basters are a community of approximately fifty-thousand people who mostly reside in their traditional lands in…
Distinguished members, I want to give a brief presentation on the situation of an indigenous language in northwestern Europe, namely Frisian. Frisian used to be a language that was spoken…
On 1 July 2022, a conference to celebrate the independence declaration of West Papua of 1 July 1971 was held in The Hague, Mr. Jeroen Zandberg made the following speech…
On 14 and 15 June 2022 the United Nations Special Rapporteur and the Tom Lantos Institute organised the Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on Minority Issues. The event was held online. “The…