Tag: Nobel Peace Prize
RSF open letter plea to Suu Kyi for Myanmar journalists’ freedom
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Five days after Reuters reporters Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were sentenced to seven years in prison on a trumped-up...
Pacific’s role and history of nuclear suffering boosted treaty success
ANALYSIS: By Dr Vanessa Griffen
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced earlier this month that the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to ICAN, the International...
ICAN wins Nobel Peace Prize for nuclear weapons ban treaty
Pacific Media Watch Newdesk
The Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize, reports Al Jazeera English.
In...
Climate change champion, Nobel nominee Tony de Brum mourned
By Shawn Raymundo and Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Former Republic of the Marshall Islands Foreign Minister Tony de Brum, a Pacific champion of climate change...
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...
USP students, France24 team up in smart-phone Fiji climate story
The France24 Observers climate change report on Fiji featuring ePOP student journalists Koroi Tadulala and Telstar Edrie Jimmy. Video: France 24 Observers - in...
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...
