Tag: Protest
Colourful, vibrant Aotearoa rally condemns Trump’s ‘racist, Islamophobic’ bans
Video and images by the Pacific Media Centre's Del Abcede. Video: Café Pacific
More than 2000 people have taken part in a colourful and vibrant ...
Protester charged with trespassing in Melbourne after Indonesian pressure
A 42-year-old protester has been charged with trespassing on the Indonesian consulate-general in Melbourne after an incident which came at a time of renewed tensions...
Indonesian police block planned Papuan student protest in Yogya
By Yuliawati in Jakarta
Scores of Indonesian police blocked Papuan students in the Central Java city of Yogyakarta who planned to hold a demonstration on...
Images: ‘I will not stay silent’ – women’s human rights march...
More than 2000 people took to the streets in Auckland at the weekend as marches for women's rights began across New Zealand on Saturday...
Human rights groups protest over 500 arrests of Papuan demonstrators
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...
‘We’re not losing control to “radicals”,’ says Indonesian minister
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...
Indigenous West Papuans send solidarity to Standing Rock
A previous activist video on West Papua Independence Day. Video: Free West Papua
Indigenous groups from around Oceania have sent their support to the ongoing...
Indonesian police seize public buses for 328 arrested at ‘free Papua’...
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...
Obituary: John Miller, a passionate advocate for Philippines justice
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...
Oceania Interrupted give media a challenge over West Papua
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...
UPNG abandons 2016 academic year, suspends student body
Story and video by Serah Aupong in Port Moresby
The University of Papua New Guinea Council has suspended the 2016 Academic Year.
The announcement of the...
Activists condemn new crackdown on Papuans – 100 arrested in 4...
The Australian West Papua Association has condemned the arrest of 65 KNPB (National Committee of West Papua) and student activists in Sentani and 4...
Free jailed Wewak students now, says PNG opposition leader
By Freddy Mou in Port Moresby
Opposition Leader Don Polye has called on Papua New Guinea's police hierarchy to immediately release students detained in the...
PNG students take campaign to provinces – opposition MPs plan protest...
Students from the University of Papua New Guinea - many already having left the campus after this week's eviction order from the administration -...
Sogavare declares full West Papuan membership in MSG ‘justifiable’
Granting of full membership status to the United Liberation Movement of West Papua in the Melanesian Spearhead Group is justifiable as Indonesia had sought...
‘Take back PNG – save your country,’ Namah tells nation
The NBC News report on Belden Namah's appeal to the nation, presented by Jerry Tave.
By Raymond Ginio in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's former opposition...
Students reach out to public in ‘awareness day’ over PNG crisis
By Scott Waide in Lae
More than 3000 students from the University of Technology and the National Polytechnic Institute in Papua New Guinea's second largest...
Electoral Commission refuses to recognise UPNG student vote
Students of the University of Papua New Guinea gathered early yesterday morning at the forum square on the Waigani campus to vote for a...
UPNG students shrug off threats – holding new protest ballot
Students are expected to hold a fresh protest ballot at the University of Papua New Guinea today after campus unrest entered its second week,...
PNG’s Unitech votes for class boycott, students demand PM steps down
Unitech's Vice-Chancellor Dr Albert Schram pictured in EMTV video of student unrest updates.
By Scott Waide in Lae
An overwhelming majority of students at Papua New...
UPNG students burn 800 newspapers in protest over political crisis
Student protesters at the national university in Papua New Guinea demonstrating against the Peter O'Neill government, claiming it is eroding democracy, have targeted news...
Asian human rights group condemns ‘illegal arrests’ of Papuans
The Asian Human Rights Commission has condemned the forced dispersal of peaceful Papuan protesters and their illegal arrest in Kampung Bhintuka-SP13 field in Mimika,...