Tag: Human rights violations
Fiji protesters call for freedom and justice in the Pacific –...
Asia Pacific Report
The Fiji NGO Coalition on Human Rights and other protesters took to the streets of Fiji's capital Suva yesterday in a rare...
John Minto: A shameful NZ response to genocide of Palestinians in...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The Aotearoa New Zealand government announcement of $5 million in humanitarian aid to “Israel, Gaza and the West Bank” is a...
Genocidal language being used to justify a massive death toll on...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The tragic events in Israel/Palestine these past few days have highlighted the absolute failure of Western governments like New Zealand to...
Ahmed Zaoui detained in Algeria for democracy statements, lawyer says
RNZ News
The Algerian democracy advocate Ahmed Zaoui, a New Zealand citizen, has been arrested by Algerian security forces after commenting on human rights violations...
Advocacy group calls on Senator Wong to press Jakarta over latest...
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian advocacy group supporting West Papuan self-determination has appealed to Foreign Minister Penny Wong to press Indonesia to halt all military...
Australian advocacy group condemns killing of 5 West Papuans – challenges...
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian human rights advocacy group for West Papuans has condemned the killing of 5 youths found dead in Dekai, capital of...
Marape claims PNG has ‘no right’ to criticise abuses in West...
RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape has told Indonesia's President Joko Widodo that PNG has no right to criticise Jakarta over what...
Letters on West Papua – ‘united voices for justice will not...
Pacific Media Watch
Vanuatu Daily Post civil society correspondents have written in unison condemning the failure of the Melanesian Spearhead Group to admit West Papua...
The silent war – Australia and Indonesia mum on Papuan human...
An Australian academic has lit the fuse of diplomatic fury by publicly criticising Indonesia’s brutal response to the Papuan independence movement, a sensitive topic...
New documentary, human rights report allege Indonesian atrocities in West Papua
The Paradise Bombed documentary about West Papua by Kristo Langker.
Asia Pacific Report
A new documentary and human rights report have documented savage attacks in 2021...
NZ Chinese local community protests against China lockdowns, ‘dictatorship’
By Lucy Xia, RNZ News journalist
More than 200 people from Aotearoa New Zealand's Chinese community gathered for a vigil at Auckland's Aotea Square last...
Not over: Young generations wage fight to protect Martial Law memories
Jairo Bolledo in Manila
Karl Patrick Suyat, 19, has no personal experience of the tyrannical rule of late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos. But memories of...
‘Her screams pierced our hearts, I knew I was going to...
By Rebecca Kuku of The National, Papua New Guinea
One of the survivors of a horrifying sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) attack and torture of nine...
Jokowi accused of whitewashing rights crimes in latest ‘impunity’ decree
IndoLeft News
Indonesia's Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy says that the presidential decree (Keppres) on the formation of a team for the non-judicial resolution...
Philippines’ People Power hero passes as dictator’s son takes over rule
By Diana G. Mendoza in Manila
The Philippine media described him as “Steady Eddie,” a warrior and survivor, and an accidental hero of the world-renowned...
Civil group appeals to Jokowi to cancel Papuan expansion plan to...
Tabloid Jubi
The Civil Organisations Solidarity for Papua Land has condemned Indonesia's Papua expansion plan of forming three new provinces risks causing new social conflicts.
And...
Rights commission discusses Papua peace talks with UN human rights commissioner
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Indonesia's National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) has discussed the plan to hold a peaceful dialogue to resolve the problems in...
Gallery: Nakba Day in Auckland – protesting against Israel’s ‘ethnic cleansing’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Today is Nakba Day -- "the great catastrophe". This is the day marking the ethnic cleansing of more than 750,000 Palestinians...
Activists demand full probe into terror attack on Papuan legal aid...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Activists have condemned alleged terror and intimidation against Papuan human rights activists and called the police to thoroughly investigate an alleged...
John Minto: NZ government and media must own up to their...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The absolute impunity which the Aotearoa New Zealand government has given to Israel’s racist apartheid regime over many decades and the...
Bongbong politics: Rehabilitating the Philippines’ martial law Marcos family
ANALYSIS: By Binoy Kampmark
Children should not pay for the sins of their parents. But in some cases, a healthy suspicion of the offspring is...
Step up efforts to free Assange after 3 years in jail,...
Pacific Media Watch newdesk
Australia must step up diplomatic efforts to encourage the US government to drop its bid to extradite Julian Assange who has...