Peter Solo Kinjap: Confronting corruption – know our rights and insist...
OPINION: By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby
Many current Papua New Guinean parliamentarians are highly respected individuals in their own areas - successful in...
Philippines move to restore death penalty bill wins House support
Rappler's Evening wRap on President Duterte and the death penalty.
By Mara Cepeda in Manila
A proposed measure seeking to reimpose the death penalty in the...
Mounting death toll tops 102 after strong quake hits Aceh buildings
By Hotli Simanjuntak in Banda Aceh
An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale hit Aceh in Indonesia early yesterday morning, destroying buildings in Pidie Jaya...
Regional meeting eyes Pacific climate migration and displacement
By Debbie Singh in Suva
A regional meeting to consider key Pacific priorities and responsibilities for advancing commitments under international and regional policy frameworks on...
IFJ praises ‘historic milestone’ with new information law in Vanuatu
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Media Association blong Vanuatu (MAV), in commending the recent passing of a Right...
Why the ‘treason’ arrests in Indonesia are a worry for Asia-Pacific
By Abdul Qowi Bastian
Sri Bintang Pamungkas was arrested in his home in Cibubur, in the outskirts of Indonesia's capital Jakarta, on early Friday morning,...
‘Beaten and left in cell screaming in pain’ – Amnesty alleges...
By Tevita Vuibau in Suva
It has been more than eight years since Nimilote Baleiloa saw the body of his late son Josefa Baleiloa in...
Fiji deports US citizen for ‘swearing at president’, claims government
By Talebula Kate in Suva
A United States national has been deported after swearing at the President of Fiji, Jioji Konrote, last week, it was...
Former National leader slams Key as achieving ‘nothing of significance’
Former National Party leader Don Brash has condemned the man who ousted him for the party's leadership, saying on New Zealand national radio John...
Fiji parliamentary justice committee in heated debate over news media decree
By Matilda Simmons in Suva
Two prominent Fiji lawyers and members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Human Rights had a go...
Vanuatu agrees to pay Vt18 million fine to avoid fisheries blacklisting
Compiled by Jane Joshua in Port Vila
Vanuatu has reached an agreement to pay a substantial fine to the Cooks Islands, after Rarotonga reported a...
Indigenous West Papuans send solidarity to Standing Rock
A previous activist video on West Papua Independence Day. Video: Free West Papua
Indigenous groups from around Oceania have sent their support to the ongoing...
Carry on Fidel Castro’s global legacy, urges Cuban ambassador
By David Robie in Auckland
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro's contribution to global social justice and dignity, and to developing nations worldwide - including the...
‘Rize of Morning Star’ boosts global ‘free Papua’ movement with new...
The new video Sorong Samara. Video: The Rize Of The Morning Star
While Indonesian authorities tried to brutally suppress West papua "independence day" rallies across...
Indonesian police seize public buses for 328 arrested at ‘free Papua’...
By Yudhistira Amran Saleh in Jakarta
Hundreds of Papuan demonstrators from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) demanding independence for West Papua have been arrested and...
West Papua supporters gather at PMC for Morning Star flag event
A West Papua video marking the global Morning Star flag-raising event today.
About 20 academics, librarians, journalists, students and Pacific issues activists gathered at the...
The $100bn gold mine and the West Papuans who are counting...
Grasberg mine in the Indonesian region of West Papua has been a source of untold wealth for its owners, but, writes Susan Schulman in...
Duterte threatens to kill rights activists if drug problem worsens
By Marlon Ramos in Manila
Human rights advocates, beware. You might just be next in “The Punisher’s” crosshairs.
President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to kill human...
West Papua human rights violations ‘worse’ says new civil group
West Papuans have been standing alone in their struggle for independence since Indonesia started colonisation in 1963, says a statement by a new civil...
Vanuatu motion of no confidence fails to make full hearing
OPINION: By Bob Makin in Port Vila
The agenda item concerning the motion of no confidence in Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas failed to...