Tag: West Papua human rights
Ben Bohane: China? No, let’s face the elephant in the Pacific...
BRIEFING: By Ben Bohane in Port Vila
China ... China ... China ...
All the talk is of increasing Chinese influence in our region. But this...
Demo at Freeport office in Jakarta calls for self-determination for West...
By Tony Firman in Jakarta
Calls for West Papuan self-determination were prominent during a demonstration in front of the offices of PT Freeport Indonesia in...
Open letter to PM Ardern: Raise Papua human rights crimes with...
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
An advocacy group, West Papua Action Auckland, has urged Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to raise human rights and the "suffering of...
West Papua one step closer to MSG membership, says Wenda
Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says the Melanesian Spearhead Group has made solid progress under the chairmanship of Solomon Islands. Video: EMTV...
UN human rights chief to send mission to investigate abuses in...
By Sheany in Jakarta
The United Nations High Commission for Human Rights plans to send a mission to Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua following reports...
United ULMWP executive confident of O’Neill’s West Papua support
By Len Garae in Port Vila
The executive of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has complied with Papua New Guinean Prime Minister...
66 arrested, 4 beaten in pro-Papuan independence rallies across Indonesia
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
West Papuan students have demonstrated to reject Indonesia’s occupation and were joined by an unprecedented wave of solidarity from people across...
Philippine media freedom riskier, traumatic under Duterte, says PCIJ director
By Kendall Hutt in Auckland
Being a journalist in the Philippines has become a lot tougher, riskier and traumatic in the face of President Rodrigo...
Papuan Morning Star flag raised in Auckland as Green MP says...
The Morning Star flag-raising at Auckland's Aotea Square yesterday. Video: Café Pacific
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The West Papuan Morning Star flag of independence - banned...
Media freedom under the spotlight in PMC 10th anniversary event
A video made by Sasya Wreksono to mark the 10th anniversary of the Pacific Media Centre. Video: PMC
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Threats to media freedom...
Police brutally attack Papuan journalist in Timika, says human rights group
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has condemned a brutal attack against journalist Saldi Hermanto in Timika, Papua, and called for...
PMC to put spotlight on Asia-Pacific ‘journalism under duress’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology is highlighting the threats to media freedom in the Asia-Pacific region in...
Renewed Papuan independence call amid alleged ‘hostage’ standoff
By Lalu Rahadian in Jakarta
Conflicts in Papua province will not be resolved until the Indonesian government provides the Papuan people with an opportunity to...
Worse West Papua human rights, ‘shrinking space’, says new report
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
West Papua has experienced a "significant aggravation" of the human rights situation in the past two years compared to previous years,...
Vanuatu PM Salwai seeks UN probe on West Papua human rights...
UN video sourced from the West Papua Liberation Organisation.
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Vanuatu Prime Minister Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas has expressed his country’s concern about the...
West Papua ignored by most NZ major political parties’ election policies
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
On the eve of New Zealand’s 2017 general election, Pacific Media Watch reports on whether West Papua features in the human...
Vanuatu’s PM aims at UN over ‘sensitive’ West Papua issue
By Jonas Cullwick in Port Vila
Vanuatu’s Prime Minister, Charlot Salwai Tabimasmas, says some South Pacific leaders at this month's Forum in Samoa backed off...
Mata’afa Keni Lesa: Don’t forget customary land, West Papua issues
OPINION: By Mata'afa Keni Lesa, editor of the Samoa Observer
On Friday, the 48th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders meeting -- and all other related meetings...
Forum chief promises protesters ‘voice of Papua’ will be heard in...
By Elizabeth Ah-Hi in Apia
The Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Dame Meg Taylor, has promised protesters that their voice on West Papua...
‘Take action’ over West Papua plea to Pacific Forum leaders
Alistar Kata's video report on the campaign for a fact-finding mission to West Papua produced before the 2015 Pacific Islands Forum. Video: Pacific Media...
British swimmers cross Lake Geneva with West Papua petition
A live clip from the Swim for West Papua crew early in the venture bound for Geneva.
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A British team was today...
Stop unlawful jailings of indigenous Papuans, AHRC warns Jakarta
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has condemned the unlawful deprivation of liberty of Papuans which has has been happening frequently...