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Teen killed as Indonesian police tell Papuans: ‘You’re legitimate target! Shoot!’
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A 17-year-old youth has become the latest victim of Indonesia’s six-decades-long colonisation of West Papua, alleges the United Liberation Movement of...
Royal family can’t keep ignoring its colonialist past and racist present
ANALYSIS: By Benjamin T. Jones, CQUniversity Australia
The most explosive element of the Sussexes’ highly anticipated interview with Oprah Winfrey was the claim that someone...
Indonesian police break up rally after Papuan protesters wreck police truck
By Muhammad Aminudin in Malang, East Java
A Papuan demonstration held near the Gajayana stadium in Malang city, East Java, ended in chaos with protesters...
How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala
The arrest, detention, and deportation of University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife are significant issues for...
PNG warned 680,000 covid vaccine doses needed to ‘save health system’
By Lulu Mark and Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby
A medical academic has warned the Papua New Guinea government to immediately bring in more than...
Wallis goes into lockdown after finding 12 more covid-19 cases
By RNZ Pacific
Wallis and Futuna has been rushed into a two-week lockdown from this morning after yesterday's tests revealed another 12 covid-19 positive cases...
For this Filipina journalist, every day is a battle with fear...
Women journalists, feminists, activists, and human rights defenders around the world are facing virtual harassment. In this series, global civil society alliance CIVICUS highlights...
No change at the top for university leaders as men outnumber...
ANALYSIS: By Marcia Devlin, Victoria University
Australian university leaders are nearly three times more likely to be a man than a woman.
Of 37 public university...
Murray Horton: Reflections on Owen Wilkes, iconic peace researcher, adventurer and...
COMMENTARY: By Murray Horton in Christchurch
Owen Wilkes, an internationally renowned peace researcher and Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) founder, died in 2005,...
Diplomat says NZ didn’t draft draconian Fiji police bill
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom
New Zealand’s High Commissioner in Fiji, Jonathan Curr, has taken to social media to counter claims that Wellington...
Fiji must commit political will over crimes against women, girls,...
By Talebula Kate in Suva
While International Women’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women, Fiji must not lose sight of the...
Covid outbreak forces New Caledonia into snap two-week lockdown
Asia Pacific Report
New Caledonia, one of the Pacific territories to have avoided the covid-19 pandemic so far, is to go into strict two-week lockdown...
Gary Juffa: People, covid is real … and dangerous. I know,...
OPEN LETTER: By Gary Juffa in Port Moresby
Dear all,
I had covid-19. I am now covid-free for 13 days now.
Not sure where I contracted it,...
Police break up rally against Papua special autonomy – blame covid
Asia Pacific Report
Indonesian police have broken up a protest action against the extension of Special Autonomy (Otsus) in Papua that took place on Jalan...
How would digital covid vaccine passports work? And what’s stopping people...
ANALYSIS: By Dave Parry, Auckland University of Technology
Although international travel restrictions for Australia have been extended to at least June, there may still be...
PNG courts close for a week after judge tests covid positive
Asia Pacific Report
Papua New Guinea's Supreme and National Courts in Port Moresby will be partially closed for a week beginning yesterday after a judge...
NZ the ‘unlucky shaky isles’, says Ardern after tsunami alert
By RNZ News
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says it is hard not to feel like New Zealand is having a run of bad luck, with...
Papua support group praises Meg Taylor for UN rights statement
Asia Pacific Report
The Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) has called on the Australian government to stop trying to keep Papua off the agenda at...
Major 8.0 quake at Kermadecs, NZ warning for people to move...
By RNZ News
An 8.0 earthquake has struck near the Kermadec Islands, hours after a 7.4 quake near the Kermadecs and a 7.1 off the...
More power for Fiji’s police force – draft bill enables eavesdropping
By Anish Chand in Suva
Fiji police will have sweeping powers to monitor communications and forcefully enter premises to place tracking devices under the proposed...
SAFEnet concerned Jakarta’s virtual police unit may create ‘Orwellian state’
Asia Pacific Report
The Southeast Asia Freedom of Expression Network (SAFEnet) – an institution concerned with freedom of expression in the digital world – has...
Who is killing off top Pacific journalism – and why?
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom
Without much in the way of a credible explanation about why, Aotearoa New Zealand education authorities are killing...