Yearly Archives: 2017

By Mara Cepeda in Manila On the eve of Human Rights Day, Philippine Vice-President Leni Robredo called on Filipinos to stand up against all forms...

By Duncan Graham in Malang, East Java The academic world is supposed to be a bright-lit landscape of independent research pushing back the frontiers of...

By Dee Ayroso in Manila Church groups and human rights advocates are holding the Duterte administration accountable for the spate of attacks which killed 10...

By Dhio Faiz in Jakarta A demonstration held in Jakarta by hundreds of students and youth from the Papua Student Alliance (AMP) and the Indonesian...

By Sheany in Jakarta With its official launch in the country set for today, Amnesty International Indonesia has emphasised the need for the government to...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea's opposition has declared it will fight a good fight to expose and oppose what it describes the 2018...
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The Bearing Witness video and the prizewinning multimedia package. Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Pacific Media Centre's Bearing Witness climate change project has won the Dart...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Pacific Media Centre, well established as a champion for media freedom, celebrated its 10th anniversary last week and the milestone...

By InterAksyon with Cris Sansano in Manila Nueva Ecija priests led by Bishop Robero Mallari are appealing to the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte to...

By Kendall Hutt in Auckland Being a journalist in the Philippines has become a lot tougher, riskier and traumatic in the face of  President Rodrigo...

Auckland University of Technology's Pacific Media Centre has marked its tenth anniversary with a seminar discussing two of the wider region's most critical media...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Participants at the Pacific Media Centre's 10th anniversary celebration last Thursday held a silent vigil calling for justice for the victims...

Evening Report Newsdesk The first of three memorials for courageous and inspiring New Zealand journalist Yasmine Ryan who died on Thursday has been held in...
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Yasmine Ryan, an award-winning New Zealand journalist who died tragically on Thursday, was the first Western journalist to begin writing about the beginning of...

By Dan McGarry, media director of the Vanuatu Daily Post “We are all Melanesian,” says Vanuatu Deputy Prime Minister Joe Natuman. “We are family. We...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Journalists in the Philippines take their life in their hands doing their job. What was already one of the world's riskiest...
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The Morning Star flag-raising at Auckland's Aotea Square yesterday. Video: Café Pacific Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The West Papuan Morning Star flag of independence - banned...
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Pacific Media Centre's 10th anniversary in pictures. Video: Kendall Hutt/PMC By Kendall Hutt in Auckland The Pacific Media Centre kicked off its 10th anniversary celebrations last...

Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A New Zealand journalist and associate of the Pacific Media Centre has been killed in a fall from a building in...

The Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology is highlighting the threats to media freedom in the Asia-Pacific region in an event...
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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...

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...