Tag: Displaced people
Influenza outbreak after Mawar challenges Guam’s evacuation centres
By Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist
An influenza B outbreak has occurred at shelters housing residents who were hardest hit by Typhoon Mawar.
It has been...
Australian group calls for action over UN Indonesian ‘Papuan abuses’ report
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A West Papuan advocacy group in Australia has appealed to Foreign Minister Marise Payne to take the cue from a new...
Indonesia accused of forcing mass flights of Papuans ‘for business’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Indonesian authorities have been accused of adopting a strategy of deploying military force to drive thousands of Papuans from their homes...
Wenda appeals to NZ, West to supply covid vaccines direct to...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A pro-independence movement in West Papua has appealed to several Western countries -- including New Zealand -- to provide urgent humanitarian...