Tag: Refugees

There has been much wringing of hands over Nauru’s ban on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for next month’s Pacific Islands Forum leaders’ summit. But,...

By Mong Palatino Protests have been gathering force over the Nauru government ban on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) from entering the country to cover...

Refugees and asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island have suffered repeated violent attacks and robberies by locals, says Human Rights Watch. Video:...

By Nick Baker of SBS News The Australian government has been slammed for a lack of transparency amid news that the healthcare provider for refugees...

OPINION: By Professor Kevin P Clements in Dunedin Donald J Trump poses major problems to world order. His administration is unraveling, he has no coherent...

By David Robie at Te Papa A former New Zealand prime minister has warned that climate change has the potential to force a legal and...

By Mahmut Atanur in Jakarta Indonesian President Joko Widodo visited Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, southwestern district of Bangladesh, as part of his official...

Manus Island was the unique setting for this Sydney Film Festival documentary collaboration between Iranian-Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani and a Dutch filmmaker using footage...

OPINION: By Sharon Harvey and Sorowar Chowdhury The plight of the Rohingya people has hit the international headlines again. Following the August clashes in Rakhine...

OPINION: By Chris Trotter You have to go a long way to find anything remotely resembling Australia’s current treatment of New Zealand. For a supposedly friendly...

Papua New Guinea immigration officials last week started dismantling parts of a prison camp housing hundreds of defiant refugees as an evacuation deadline loomed...

The squalor faced by Manus Island refugees in Papua New Guinea. TRT video Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk New Zealand activists have chained themselves to the gates...

The global refugee system is failing ... here is how it can be fixed, says Professor Alexander Betts. Video: TedTalks By Jeremaiah M. Opiniano in...

By Kirsty Johnston of The New Zealand Herald Most of Golriz Ghahraman's childhood memories are of war. She remembers howling sirens, sending families scurrying into basements....

The Venice film festival has just ended, and one of the most challenging movies was the documentary Human Flow by Chinese artist and activist...

By Konradus Epa in Atambua, Indonesia Rostiana Bareto experienced tough living conditions as a refugee when she and her family settled in Atambua, western Timor,...

By Kendall Hutt in Auckland Australia's offshore refugee detention centres in the Pacific are facing further controversy as the gradual closure and demolition of the...

Pacific Media Centre News Desk Digital verification of images and videos establish that bullets were fired directly into the Manus refugee centre last month, putting...

By Kendall Hutt in Auckland Foreign companies are profiting off human rights abuses carried out at the Australian offshore refugee processing centre on Nauru, Amnesty...

PNG's National Planning Minister Charles Abel has called on the Australian government to work with Papua New Guinea to facilitate the closing of the...

EMTV News report of the court hearing in Port Moresby yesterday. By Sally Pokiton in Port Moresby The trial against Iranian refugee Loghman Sawari, who fled...

By Freddy Mou in Port Moresby The deported Iranian refugee who arrived in Port Moresby today from Fiji, Loghman Sawari, was whisked away by heavy...