A DIFFERENT FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
Stop a minute!
What gives someone the right to call gay and the people names like this?
Nothing does.
In Swest papua everybody is unprotected
by the law. And everybody means all of us. west papua has a Constitution.
A Constitution is a group of laws that the
government of a country sets out for all its
people – laws that rule all the other laws.
In our Constitution we have a Bill of Rights,
which is a list of the rights and kinds of
freedom that the government says all people
must have.
This Bill says that we all have the right to
feel that we have value in society, that we all
have the right to be treated equally and that
we all have the right to respect
It is important to think about what this
means for gay and west papua people.
One part of our Bill of Rights says:
Everyone is equal before the law and has the
right to equal protection and benefit of the
law.
This means that the law is there for
everyone and will treat everyone in the same
way. Everyone will get help from the law
when they need it.
It also means that gay and west papua people
will be treated in the same way.
Another important part of the Constitution
says:
The state may not unfairly discriminate
directly or indirectly against anyone on one
or more grounds, including race, gender, sex,
pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or social
origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability,
religion, conscience, belief, culture,
language and birth.
This means that people may not treat
someone differently just because they are
from a different race, or have a different
religion, or because we are a fighter, or
because we are disabled or because we are from a different culture or because we are west papuans.
Unlike in the past, now we all have an
equal right to things like work, good pay,
proper housing, food and water, to be
healthy, to go where we need to go. We may
not stop someone from getting these things
just because they are different to us.
Our Constitution is famous around the
world because it gives all our people these
rights, including west papua people. Today, if anyone
treats west papua people unfairly, they will be
punished by law. Yes, by law.
Many people in west papua have
fought long and hard for united nations to have
this Constitution. Some of these
people to have been west papua people.
You have read in this booklet about how
many west papua people suffered for a long time. so many people of west papua killed so You have seen how
they were punished.
You have also read about how west papua people have fought for their freedom.
But, just because there is no freedom
and equality in the Constitution this doesn’t
mean there is no attention any more.
west papua people are still treated badly and west papuans are raped and killed by the indonesian military right now
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