Monthly Archives: November 2017
Livestreaming: Journalism under duress in Asia-Pacific
The Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology is highlighting the threats to media freedom in the Asia-Pacific region in an event...
Media freedom under the spotlight in PMC 10th anniversary event
A video made by Sasya Wreksono to mark the 10th anniversary of the Pacific Media Centre. Video: PMC
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Threats to media freedom...
2 shot dead in Philippine human rights violations fact-finding mission
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Three members of a Philippine fact-finding mission team have been shot by armed men in Negros Oriental, reports Karapatan.
The three were...
No Philippine law tackles ‘Paradise Papers’ 200 offshore accounts
ANALYSIS: By Malou Mangahas and Karol Ilagan in Manila
What do some bankers and fund managers, a few senior government officials, a dozen top taxpayers,...
42 years after Timor-Leste’s declared independence, a democracy plea
OPINION: Open letter by Charles Scheiner, Pamela Sexton and John M. Miller of ETAN
The people of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste will today celebrate...
Journalism educators protest over ‘targeting’ of Boochani on Manus
Manus Island was the unique setting for this Sydney Film Festival documentary collaboration between Iranian-Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani and a Dutch filmmaker using footage...
Kiribati – a Pacific ‘drowning paradise’ fighting for its existence
DW Documentary reports on Kiribati's struggle for survival with climate change. Video: DW
DOCUMENTARY: By Markus Henssler
Climate change and rising sea levels mean the island...
Sika honours proud Tongan heritage – England sneak into World League final
By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News
The president of the Mate Ma’a Tonga Rugby League Association has turned to Tongan tradition in announcing the...
Police brutally attack Papuan journalist in Timika, says human rights group
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has condemned a brutal attack against journalist Saldi Hermanto in Timika, Papua, and called for...
IFJ blasts ‘press freedom attack’ on Iranian-Kurdish journalist in PNG
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) in condemning the reported arrest of...
Philippines under Duterte – acute impunity and fettered information
ANALYSIS: By Malou Mangahas in Manila
Eight years ago on 23 November 2009, 32 journalists were among the 58 who were killed in what is...
HRW condemns failure to end abusive ‘virginity tests’ in Indonesia
Human Rights Watch
Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo should order Indonesia’s police chief and armed forces commander to immediately ban so-called “virginity tests” of female...
‘Embalming’ hampers autopsy finding in death of PNG journalist
By Staycey Yalo in Port Moresby
The final autopsy report on Post-Courier journalist Rosalyn Albaniel Evara, handed to the Papua New Guinean Coroner’s Court last...
PMC to put spotlight on Asia-Pacific ‘journalism under duress’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology is highlighting the threats to media freedom in the Asia-Pacific region in...
NZ urgently needs to take more Rohingya refugees
OPINION: By Sharon Harvey and Sorowar Chowdhury
The plight of the Rohingya people has hit the international headlines again. Following the August clashes in Rakhine...
Chris Trotter: Catastrophic loss of trust over Canberra’s Manus provocation
OPINION: By Chris Trotter
You have to go a long way to find anything remotely resembling Australia’s current treatment of New Zealand.
For a supposedly friendly...
Indonesian president recognises land rights of nine more indigenous groups
ANALYSIS: By Basten Gokkon in Jakarta
The Indonesian government has relinquished control over nine tracts of forest to the indigenous communities that have lived there...
Strong leadership needed to drive COP Pacific climate goals, says Greenpeace
"Together, we must take action to protect our world" - Shalvi Shakshi's inspirational climate story. Video: UNICEF
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Greenpeace has called for climate...
Tiny Timbulsloko fights back in face of Indonesia’s ‘ecological disaster’
Drone views of the village of Timbulsloko showing the scale of coastal erosion and sinking flatlands in an area that once used to be...
Women must be at centre of global climate solutions, says Fiji minister
By Mereoni Mili in Bonn, Germany
It is important that women and girls remain in the centre of climate solutions.
These were the words of Fiji's...
Pōhiva rejects ‘secret agenda’ claims that he wanted to seize royal power
By Kalino Lātū, editor of Kaniva News
Tongan Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pōhiva told his supporters that if he had really wanted to take away people’s...
Renewed Papuan independence call amid alleged ‘hostage’ standoff
By Lalu Rahadian in Jakarta
Conflicts in Papua province will not be resolved until the Indonesian government provides the Papuan people with an opportunity to...