Tag: Human rights violations
Wenda backs urgent UN call for action over Papuan child killings,...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A West Papuan leader has praised the "bravery and spirit" of Ukrainians defending their country against the Russian invasion while condemning...
UN report calls for independent probe into ‘shocking’ rights abuses in...
UN News
Shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans have been taking place in Indonesia, say United Nations-appointed human rights experts who cite child killings, disappearances, torture...
How Google moulds public opinion on West Papua, disrupts education
ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya in Brisbane
Google images of a country or region can offer a wealth of information about the people and cultures that...
Afghan women challenge pregnant NZ journalist’s ‘reality under the Taliban’
RNZ News
Afghan women are accusing the Taliban of using a pregnant New Zealand journalist as a publicity tool to show the world they can...
Cartoons: Malcolm Evans – World condemns apartheid state
PSNA welcomes Amnesty International declaration of Israel as an apartheid state
Yamin Kogoya: 60 years ago, Indonesia invaded West Papua with guns....
Shocking footage has been circulating on social media showing National Armed Forces (TNI) Indonesian military helicopters firing indiscriminately at civilian villages in Suru-Suru District,...
‘Protect Papuan women and children – not kill them’, security forces...
By Yance Wenda in Jayapura
Deputy chair Debora Mote of the Papuan People’s Assembly (MRP) says the Indonesian state's security forces should be protecting indigenous...
Timor-Leste’s ‘true hero’ cameraman Max Stahl who exposed Indonesian atrocities dies
In this video -- one of several made while he was guest speaker at the Pacific Journalism Review's 20th anniversary conference in Auckland in...
Police break up rally by Papua activists at US embassy in...
By Ihsanuddin in Jakarta
Indonesian police forcibly broke up a protest marking the 1962 Rome Agreement in front of the US Embassy in Central...
‘I’ll stay in Afghanistan as long as I can,’ says reporter...
New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis asks a key question about women's rights in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover during spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid's first media...
Arrests, torture, beatings and jail – inside Myanmar’s daily junta reality
SPECIAL REPORT: By Phil Thornton
The military’s brutality is a daily reality for all the people of Myanmar. As Myanmar’s army prepares to deploy and...
With the Taliban return, 20 years of progress for women looks...
ANALYSIS: By Azadah Raz Mohammad, The University of Melbourne and Jenna Sapiano, Monash University
As the Taliban has taken control of the country, Afghanistan has...
‘A day of betrayal’, says Wenda about 1962 secret pact over...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Today -- 15 August 15 1962 -- marks "a day of betrayal for us West Papuans", says a Papuan leader as...
International calls grow to free Papuan activist Victor Yeimo’s over health
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
International pressure is mounting on Indonesia to free West Papuan activist Victor Yeimo, the international spokesperson for the peaceful civilian West...
‘My torturers carry a heavy burden in their hearts’, says Fiji...
COMMENTARY: By Pita Waqavonovono in Suva
I thank The Fiji Times for covering this story. I also thank Archbishop Peter Chong for providing a space...
ULMWP calls for suspension of Indonesia from UN rights council over...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has called on the international community to immediately suspend Indonesia from the UN...
Uyghurs living abroad in NZ tell of China’s campaign of intimidation
Pacific Media Centre
Chinese authorities are systematically harassing Uyghurs and other Muslim ethnic groups even after they have left the country, according to new testimonies...
Amnesty welcomes school climate strikes, warns ‘truant’ governments
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Amnesty International today warned that the failure of governments to tackle climate change could amount to the greatest inter-generational human rights...
Philippines ‘drug war’ no model for any country, says UN rights...
UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet criticising the Philippines "war on drugs" policy in her speech in Geneva. Video: Rappler
By Jodesz Gavilan in...
Amnesty demands Jokowi honour pledge on Papuan human rights
By Budiarti Utami Putri in Jakarta
Human rights organisation Amnesty International Indonesia has demanded President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo fulfil his promises to resolve the alleged...
Media freedom groups protest over detained Bangladeshi photojournalist
By Global Voices
Late on the night of August 5, 2018, award-winning Bangladeshi photographer and activist Dr Shahidul Alam was forcibly abducted from his house...
Duterte says as ‘parent of nation,’ he can order detention of...
By Pia Ranada in Manila
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has cited the power of the state to act as parents of persons needing...