Tag: Indigenous rights
Fiji court fines Malolo developers in nation’s first ‘environmental crime’
By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva
A landmark case in Fiji today at the High Court in the capital Suva issued what is...
‘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...
Separatist or radically inclusive? What NZ’s He Puapua report really says...
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University
For many New Zealanders, He Puapua came shrouded in controversy from the moment it became public knowledge earlier...
Hawai’ian sovereignty activist and UH educator Haunani-Kay Trask dies at 71
By Mark Ladao in Honolulu
Dr Haunani-Kay Trask, a Hawai'ian leader and sovereignty activist with a distinguished career as an academic at the University of...
Nine Australians fighting for gender equality and making a difference
ANALYSIS: By Blair Williams, Australian National University
It feels like every day brings more harrowing claims of harassment, bullying and abuse of women in Australia's...
Indigenous peoples in Indonesia still struggle for equality after 75 years
By Fidelis Eka Satriastanti, The Conversation
Indigenous people fought alongside youth movements in the creation of an Indonesian nation. But, in the historical writing of...
Indigenous people spearhead the fight to save the planet
By Imelda V. Abano in Manila
Indigenous people across the world are disproportionately affected by climate change. They are also leading movements to protect our...
Climate change research aims to give back Pacific’s ‘sustainable voice’
Pacific Media Watch
A University of Waikato researcher says some of the current colonial representations of climate change in the Pacific are obscuring Pacific voices...
Lowering of Kīngitanga flag at Ihumātao ‘appropriate’, says Soul
By RNZ News
Protesters at Ihumātao remain hopeful a resolution to the lengthy dispute will be announced before Waitangi Day.
Kiingi Tūheitia arrived at Ihumātao yesterday...
Utu actor Zac Wallace – ‘born a leader and a fighter...
Trailer for the 2013 redux version of the 1983 film Utu produced for the Cannes Film Festival. Video: Utu
OBITUARY: By Matthew Theunissen of RNZ...
Ramzy Baroud: Can Christchurch heal our collective wounds?
OPINION: By Ramzy Baroud
I visited the city of Christchurch on May 23, 2018, as part of a larger speaking tour in New Zealand that...
Decolonisation in New Caledonia – who decides the future?
In this second of three articles from Noumea, Dr Lee Duffield learns about multicultural Kanaky/New Caledonia and the events that led to their referendum...
Activists fear Indian proposal for coal reserves in Indonesian-ruled Papua
By Febriana Firdaus in Jakarta
As it seeks to diversify its sources of fuel, India is looking to get in on the ground floor of...
Philippine soldiers harass mission probing rights abuses in Mindanao
By Ronalyn V. Olea in Manila
Philippine state security forces have repeatedly blocked members of a fact-finding mission investigating human rights violations against peasant...
Gallery: Lumad campaigners appeal for NZ support to defend schools
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
New Zealand and Filipino teachers, community advocates and students this week launched an open letter appealing to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte...
Manila brands volunteer teachers as ‘terrorists’, say Lumad advocates
By Jean Bell in Auckland with additional reporting by Rahul Bhattarai
Volunteer teachers are being maliciously labelled as "terrorists" by the Philippine government while paramilitary...
Indonesian president recognises land rights of nine more indigenous groups
ANALYSIS: By Basten Gokkon in Jakarta
The Indonesian government has relinquished control over nine tracts of forest to the indigenous communities that have lived there...
Indigenous advocacy group calls on Jokowi to revoke forests decree
By Dames Alexander Sinaga in Jakarta
A civil society group has urged the Indonesian government to revoke a presidential decree on the indigenous resettlement schemes...
Worse West Papua human rights, ‘shrinking space’, says new report
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
West Papua has experienced a "significant aggravation" of the human rights situation in the past two years compared to previous years,...
Rights, cultural activists among winners of Asia’s Nobel Prize
By Joe Torres in Manila
An Indonesian tribal rights activist, a Sri Lankan woman who has helped civil war victims, and a Japanese man working...
Indonesia must step up over Papuan development, says ELSAM
The Indonesian government needs to change the policy of development which makes Papuan community a subject, says a non-government organisation that specialises in West...
First woman to lead world’s largest indigenous people’s alliance
By Philip Jacobson in Yanjung Gusta, Indonesia
Rukka Sombolinggi has been selected as secretary-general of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago (AMAN), becoming the...