Tag: Repression
RSF hails decision to award Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian journalist
Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has hailed the news that Narges Mohammadi -- an Iranian journalist RSF has been defending for years --...
‘It was set up to fail us’ – Palestinians reflect on...
Though the Oslo Accords and its signatories made many promises to the Palestinians, in reality, it carved Palestine up into bantustans and ghettos with...
Israel’s arms and spyware: Used on Palestinians, sold to the world
Journalist and critic of Israeli apartheid Antony Loewenstein wrapped up his New Zealand tour with another damning address in Auckland last night but was...
Papuan activists accuse Jakarta over mounting ‘brutal’ repression, arrests
Jubi News in Jayapura
Esther Haluk, a women’s rights activist from GARDA Papua, is among West Papuan activists who have condemned a declining state of...
Fiji’s dilemma – how its military has become so deeply mired...
ANALYSIS: By Sadhana Sen and Stephen Howes
The last time the Australian Labor Party came to power (in 2007), Australia was imposing sanctions against Fiji...
Local advocacy groups call on NZ to press Indonesia to free...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A national network of groups supporting freedom and justice for West Papua has called on Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta to condemn...
Sharp rise in Papuan mass arrests during military operations, says ICP
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The International Coalition for Papua (ICP) says there has been an increase in the number of arbitrary arrests in its latest...
Covid-19 crisis a pretext for West Papua online, offline repression, says...
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
The Indonesian government has used the covid-19 pandemic as a pretext to crack down on West Papuan street protests and to...
50 years of the Polynesian Panthers: ‘It was a time of...
RNZ Pacific
Today marks 50 years to the day that six Pacific Islanders grouped together in central Auckland to form the Polynesian Panther Party.
The party...
Many questions, few answers, as conflict deepens between Israelis and Palestinians
ANALYSIS: By Tony Walker, La Trobe University
What’s next in the latest Middle East convulsion? Will a ceasefire between the Hamas militant group in Gaza...
Fiji drops three places in RSF press freedom index over gagging...
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Fiji has dropped three places in the latest Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index and been condemned for its treatment...
