Tag: human rights
Colourful, vibrant Aotearoa rally condemns Trump’s ‘racist, Islamophobic’ bans
Video and images by the Pacific Media Centre's Del Abcede. Video: Café Pacific
More than 2000 people have taken part in a colourful and vibrant ...
Keith Locke: Israel’s anti-nuclear whistleblower more deserving of NZ citizenship
OPINION: By Keith Locke
No self-respecting country sells its passports to rich people who don’t even live there, which is why it was so bad...
Trump’s immigration policy has little impact on Indonesia, says Kalla
By a special correspondent in Jakarta
Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, deplores the immigration policy issued by newly inaugurated United States President Donald Trump,...
Endangered – the frontline journalism of outrage
War Reporters, a short video launched by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) last year to honour journalists facing "danger zones". Its release coincided with the...
Concern growing in Indonesia over Rohingya ‘genocide’ crisis
By Ryan Dagur and Katharina R. Lestari in Jakarta
There is rising concern in majority Muslim Indonesia that the treatment being meted out to ethnic...
Human rights groups protest over 500 arrests of Papuan demonstrators
Jakarta-based based human rights watchdog Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (Elsam) and its local partner in Papua, Elsham Papua, have condemned intimidation and...
West Papua Media on innovative digital security and safety project
An example of a documentary video made by a partner group of West Papua Media, AwasMIFEE. Since joining Indonesia officially in 1969, there were...
‘We’re not losing control to “radicals”,’ says Indonesian minister
Al Jazeera's Inside Story this week features the "blasphemy" trial against Indonesia's Christian Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama and asks if the 1969 law is...
AWPA condemns the arrest of 6 KNPB members in West Papua
The Australia West Papua Association has condemned the arrest of six National Committee for West Papua (KNPB) members in Nabire, West Papua, today.
Four members...
Brother seeks answers from Australia over NZ death at Balibo
The Death of the Balibo Five ... a Footprint Films extra including clips from the film Balibo and interviews with the film director, Robert...
Timor-Leste honours George Aditjondro for ‘challenging’ role in independence struggle
By MAHINDA ARKYASA in Jakarta
The Timor-Leste government has extended it condolences for the passing of Dr George Junus Aditjondro on December 10. Aditjondro was...
WJEC16: Student shootings in PNG, j-schools, corruption and climate change
Heavily armed Papua New Guinea police in camouflage fatigues confront students before opening fire on them on 8 June 2016. Image: PMC video
The shootings...
Indonesian anticorruption activist George Aditjondro dies in Palu
OBITUARY: By Ruslan Sangadji in Jakarta
Activist, researcher, scholar and former Tempo magazine journalist George Junus Aditjondro has died in Palu, Central Sulawesi. He was 70...
Duterte’s War: ‘He was alive when they hammered the nails into...
WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC CONTENT: Bodies pile up in the Philippines as Duterte’s controversial "war on drugs" continues after the President tells citizens to deal...
Greek VJ wins Rory Peck freelance award for refugees crisis video
Fear and Desperation: Refugees and Migrants Pour into Greece. Prizewinning footage shot in October 2015 – March 2016, Greece. Video: Rory Peck Awards
Will Vassilopoulos,...
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...
‘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...