Tag: Indigenous
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...
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,...
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...
Indonesian islanders win struggle against Chinese mining firm
By Ryan Dagur in Jakarta
Indigenous people on a small Christian majority island in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province are claiming victory after the government revoked...
Media still shut out of Te Tii Marae in lead up...
Media were still not permitted to film on Te Tii Marae premises in Waitangi, reports Māori Television.
Police also restricted media from filming the arrival...
Wadan Narsey: Are there two sets of prosecuting rules in Fiji?
ANALYSIS: By Wadan Narsey in Suva
In 2016, two of Fiji’s main media organisations, the privately owned Fiji Times and state-owned Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, came...
Shifting demographics in West Papua highlight conflict, says academic
New statistics show indigenous Melanesians are not yet the minority they were previously thought to be in West Papua, reports Radio New Zealand International's...
Court bars overseas travel for accused Fiji Times publisher
By Tokasa Rainima in Suva
Fiji Times publisher Hank Arts’ bail variation application has been dismissed by the Suva High Court.
Justice Thushara Rajasinghe told Arts...
‘Stop killing Melanesians’ Vanuatu plea to Canberra over West Papua
Archival footage from ABC News on Australian SAS training of Indonesian special forces in 2010 republished on the Special Forces News channel on YouTube...
How mining and militarisation led to an HIV epidemic in Indonesia’s...
By Susan Schulman in Kambele, Papua, reporting for IRIN
Martina Wanago was sick. In fact, she was sure she would die. She had contracted HIV,...
GMAR wins justice award
A group of indigenous mothers and grandmothers who actively campaign to stop the forced removal of aboriginal children from their families have been recognised...
Price of Peace filmmakers honoured with award
The film made its debut at the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2015. Video: JourneymanVOD
By TJ Aumua in Auckland
Filmmakers of the New Zealand...
Waititi ensures strong indigenous presence for his new film
Hunt for the Wilderpeople director Taika Waititi has worked with Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department to ensure Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were hired to work on...
Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Dr Camille Nakhid
A group of Indigenous Australian grandmothers have organised themselves to stop the Australian government from taking away Indigenous children...
WJEC16: Educators warn of looming crises within journalism, stress ‘better practice’
By Kendall Hutt
Journalism educators from across the Pacific have raised concerns about the current state of journalism globally at the 4th World Journalism Education...
Indonesia ‘recognises communal rights’ of 9 indigenous groups in Papua
By Yeremia Sukoyo in Jakarta
Indonesia's Minister of Land and Spatial Planning Ferry Mursyidan Baldan has declared the government's recognition of communal rights of nine...
Asian human rights watchdog dismayed at lack of progress in Papua
After monitoring 20 months of the human rights situation in Papua and West Papua provinces under Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s administration, the Asian Human...