Tag: human rights

By Anne Noonan It is now 55 years since the Morning Star flag was flown officially in West Papua for the first time on the...

Two screenings of the award-winning documentary The Road to Home, which follows the life of West Papuan independence leader and lawyer Benny Wenda and...

Exclusive interview by Corazon Miller of The New Zealand Herald The controversial president of the Philippines, known as "The Punisher", says he wished he could...

The chairman of the Human Rights Foundation says New Zealand has standards for granting visas, and he does not think the president of the...

The Balitanghali interview with Professor Crispin Maslog. Image: GMA News Communications professor Crispin C. Maslog has made a series of warnings about "Martial Law amnesia"...

By Maria Eden T. Dino in Manila  “Moving on without justice being served is not moving on—it’s giving up.” This was the reminder of University of...

By a special correspondent in Manila To mark the 44th anniversary of Martial Law in the Philippines today and to call to mind the atrocities...

Inside the Philippines "war on drugs" - Al Jazeera's The Stream programme. By David Robie in Manila Mounting calls for the Philippines president to be investigated...

By Patty Pasion in Manila Victims of horrifying acts of torture during Martial Law in the Philippines have recounted their painful experiences before Chief Justice...

By Len Garae in Port Vila Vanuatu gender and human rights advocate Jenny Ligo has called on the Minister of Justice to "revisit resources" made...

Australia must consider human rights, including the military crackdowns on the West Papuan provinces, when pursuing closer ties with Indonesia, says the Melbourne newspaper...

By Jimmy Domingo in Manila Human rights activists in the Philippines have launched a movement to demand the immediate end of summary executions of suspected...

SPECIAL REPORT: Laura Lyons is a 48-year-old Wiradjuri woman living in Sydney. She alleges that three of her children as well as four of...

Speak Up-Kōrerotia has just produced its first "pop-up" show on Plains FM. Explore the grit of "Exposing human rights abuses through (citizen) media" with Professor...

OPINION: By Herman Wainggai In 2002, West Papuan leaders and I traveled to Fiji to urge leaders of the PIF to support West Papua. I also...

Oceania Interrupted challenged media educators and journalists from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region to raise the profile of West Papua as a human...

On July 6 each year people gather to raise the Morning Star flag and to remember those who died in West Papua's Biak Massacre...

OPINION: Contributed by the Australian West Papua Association On the 2 July 1998, the West Papuan Morning Star flag was raised on top of a...

Shirley Shackleton, widow of journalist Greg Shackleton, one of the Balibo Five killed by Indonesian special forces at that Timorese border town of that...

Australian-supported Indonesian police special forces have shot dead a teenage Papuan high school student in central Nabire city, West Papua, reports West Papua Media. The...

By Benny Mawel in Jayapura The West Papua National Committee claimed that more than 1000 of its members have were detained by Indonesian police during...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Nid Satjipanon in Bangkok On 2 June 2016, human rights activist and lawyer Andy Hall took to the witness box in a...