Tag: Protests
Rampaging mob attacks PM O’Neill’s interests – ‘warlords’ take over Mendi
By Johnny Poiya and Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby
A rampaging crowd has attacked Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill’s official vehicle and business...
Jakarta advocacy group accuses hardline general over attack
By Dwi Andayani and Noval Dwinuary Antoni in Jakarta
Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI) advocacy head Muhammad Isnur has accused retired Major-General Kivlan Zen and...
Thousands of Filipinos demand end to killings in Duterte’s drug war
Children as young as five have become the latest victims in what's believed to be the bloodiest week in the Philippines since President Rodrigo...
Lae police chief confirms ‘students’ set fire to PNG ballot papers...
By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea's Lae Metropolitan Police Superintendent Anthony Wagambie Jnr has confirmed that ballot papers were burnt at...
Ban the bomb – how NZ’s ordinary ‘Davids’ checked the nuclear...
Pacific Media Watch editor Kendall Hutt's video on the nuclear free law campaign.
Off The Wall: with Padre James Bhagwan in Suva
As we conclude the...
‘Ordinary hero’ who challenged French Polynesian ‘nuclear horror’ dies
Bruno Barrillot talking about the legacy of French nuclear testing in the Pacific in the Witnesses of the Bomb programme in a 2013 multimedia...
NZ climate change protesters blockade oil conference in Taranaki
Climate change protesters blockaded the Petroleum Summit in the New Zealand city of New Plymouth today where the government was expected to announce the...
Indonesian women march for equal rights and protection
The women's march in Jakarta. Video: UNANews
By Katharina R. Lestari in Jakarta
More than 1000 Indonesian women took to the streets of Jakarta this week...
Papuan student protests call on Indonesia to close Freeport
Protesters from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) and religious pupils from an Islamic boarding school (pesantren) have faced off against each other at the...
Duterte critics, supporters clash on EDSA People Power anniversary
A scuffle erupts after around as Duterte supporters arrive at a rally of thousands of Duterte critics near the People Power Monument. Video: Rappler
Critics...
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...
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...
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...
Officials fail to resolve issues with PNG LNG landowners, gas flow...
Landowners in the PNG LNG project of Hela province expressing their dissatisfaction to a government delegation this week in Hides. Video: EMTV News
By Peter...