Tag: Protest

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

The Australian West Papua Association has condemned the arrest of 65 KNPB (National Committee of West Papua) and student activists in Sentani and 4...

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...

Students from the University of Papua New Guinea - many already having left the campus after this week's eviction order from the administration -...

Granting of full membership status to the United Liberation Movement of West Papua in the Melanesian Spearhead Group is justifiable as Indonesia had sought...

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...

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...

Students of the University of Papua New Guinea gathered early yesterday morning at the forum square on the Waigani campus to vote for a...

Students are expected to hold a fresh protest ballot at the University of Papua New Guinea today after campus unrest entered its second week,...

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...

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...

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,...

WARNING: Shocking images. Citizen video footage of the Philippines security forces in their increasingly savage use of force against the protesting farmers. Video: Kilab...

Most news media took pictures of the climate change "civil disobedience" protest today at vantage points outside the SkyCity Auckland Convention Centre. But Asia Pacific...