Tag: Refugees
Baliau village apologises for assault on PNG’s volcano island journalist
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The village of Baliau on Papua New Guinea's Manam island has publicly apologised to an assaulted journalist reporting for The National...
Nauru refugee camp demolished to hide abuse, says rights advocate
By Benjamin Robinson-Drawbridge of RNZ Pacific
The oldest refugee camp on Nauru is being demolished to hide abusive conditions from the Pacific Islands Forum, an...
Nauru media ban on ABC targets Australian detention centre gag
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,...
Protests gather force over Nauru ban on ABC from Pacific Forum
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...
PNG condemned for sorcery attacks, police brutality and over refugees
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:...
Manus refugees ‘in the dark’ as healthcare provider pulls out
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...
Kevin Clements: Psychopathology and politics – attack Syria to divert attention...
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...
Underestimate climate change political upheaval ‘at peril’, warns former PM
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...
Indonesian leader meets Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, vows support
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...
Journalism educators protest over ‘targeting’ of Boochani on Manus
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...
NZ urgently needs to take more Rohingya refugees
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...
Chris Trotter: Catastrophic loss of trust over Canberra’s Manus provocation
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...
Murray Horton: Root causes of Manus refugee crisis need to be...
Papua New Guinea immigration officials last week started dismantling parts of a prison camp housing hundreds of defiant refugees as an evacuation deadline loomed...
NZ protesters lock gates of Australian High Commission in Manus protest
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...
Economically empowering refugees a solution to ‘broken’ system
The global refugee system is failing ... here is how it can be fixed, says Professor Alexander Betts. Video: TedTalks
By Jeremaiah M. Opiniano in...
Meet Green MP Golriz Ghahraman, NZ’s first refugee in Parliament
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....
Global refugee crisis solution ‘up to all of us’, says filmmaker...
The Venice film festival has just ended, and one of the most challenging movies was the documentary Human Flow by Chinese artist and activist...
Indonesian nun offers lifeline to refugees who fled Timor-Leste
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,...
Closure of Manus Island will leave refugees in ‘limbo’, says Amnesty
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...
Amnesty challenges Australian claim over shooting on Manus Island
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...
Amnesty blasts foreign companies over ‘profiting’ from Nauru refugees abuse
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...
Supreme Court gives green light to PNG to deport 166 non-refugees
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...