Tag: human rights

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...

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...

An example of a documentary video made by a partner group of West Papua Media, AwasMIFEE. Since joining Indonesia officially in 1969, there were...

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...

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...

The Death of the Balibo Five ... a Footprint Films extra including clips from the film Balibo and interviews with the film director, Robert...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Fear and Desperation: Refugees and Migrants Pour into Greece. Prizewinning footage shot in October 2015 – March 2016, Greece. Video: Rory Peck Awards Will Vassilopoulos,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Grasberg mine in the Indonesian region of West Papua has been a source of untold wealth for its owners, but, writes Susan Schulman in...

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...

OPINION: By Corazon Miller of The New Zealand Herald Today I've decided to out myself - as the journalist whose marital status was questioned by...

By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila Former Vanuatu Prime Minister and the country's first Roving Ambassador, Barak Sope, has expressed his personal tribute to the...

OBITUARY: By Murray Horton John Miller (1929-2016) died in Christchurch in November, aged 87. John and Leonida (Leony) have been members of the Philippines Solidarity...

By Gwyn McClelland in Melbourne Today, Martin Scorsese’s Silence will have its premiere at the Vatican, where it will be screened to hundreds of Roman...