title: 'Forgotten': a personal comment and communiqué on West Papuan refugees.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To raise awareness of the ongoing human rights violations of the Indigenous residents of West Papua and their mental health consequences.
  
  
  METHODS
  The author, herself a refugee from West Papua, provides a summary comment from a presentation to the Leadership in Mental Health: Island Nations course, based on personal experience in West Papua and Papua New Guinea, and a telephone survey of West Papuan refugees resident in Australia.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A communiqué in solidarity from all course delegates was produced and is included.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Human rights violations continue in West Papua, and the plight of its indigenous residents and West Papuan refugees in Papua New Guinea and Australia are dire and should not be 'forgotten'.
authors.affiliation: Case Worker, St John's Community Care, Innisfail, QLD and; Master of Public Health student, Torrens University, Adelaide, SA, Australia trixtaime@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Trix
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Taime
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D006806:Human Rights; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D010219:Papua New Guinea / Q000208:ethnology; D044382:Population Groups / Q000523:psychology*; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: West Papua; refugee; trauma