Fiji, Sept. 8 -- Pacific civil society organisations have called on Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders to take urgent action on the worsening humanitarian and human rights crisis in West Papua, w arning that years of unfulfilled commitments have left over 100,000 people displaced.

"We, the undersigned civil-society organisations from West Papua and across the Pacific, write with urgency ahead of the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in September. For nearly two decades, the Pacific Island Leaders Forum has made commitments to the people of West Papua, but these have been largely unfulfilled, and the situation on the ground continues to worsen. Now is the time for decisive action," the open letter stated.

The letter highlights escal...