Asylum Seekers

PNG: Media barred from asylum seekers processing centre

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Gorethy Kenneth PORT MORESBY (PNG Post-Courier / Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinea's Post-Courier newspaper visited the Manus Processing Centre for asylum seekers over the...

VIDEO: Public backlash against NZ asylum seekers ‘lock up’ bill

Friday, September 21, 2012

A draft law proposes changes to New Zealand's Immigration Act 2009, defining “mass arrival” as a group of 10 people or more, and allowing for up to a six month detention period for...

PNG: Media 'ban' reveals conflict between PM and immigration

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Alex Perrottet of Pacific Media Watch, with Henry Yamo on Rarotonga AUCKLAND (Pacific Scoop / Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders has condemned the media ban on foreign...

PNG: O’Neill distances himself from ‘media ban’ imposed by foreign minister

Friday, August 31, 2012

Henry Yamo RAROTONGA, Cook Islands (Pacific Scoop / Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinean Prime Minister Peter O’Neill declared today there was no ban on foreign journalists entering the...

PNG: Media union calls for Manus ban to be lifted

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

SYDNEY (MEAA / Pacific Media Watch): The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance is concerned that foreign journalists have been banned from accessing the proposed Regional Processing Centre for...

PNG: Media ban on foreign journalists criticised by opposition

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

PORT MORESBY (Pacific Media Watch): The ban on foreign journalists on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea is making waves across the Pacific as leaders gather for the Pacific Islands Forum on...

PNG: Australian asylum seeker plan faces PNG legal challenge

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

PORT MORESBY (Radio Australia / Pacific Media Watch): It comes as Australia's Parliament is debating amended legislation which would clear the way for a return to offshore processing on Manus...

VIDEO: Forum: Pray for us: tragedy at sea and the politics of people-smuggling

Monday, August 13, 2012

SYDNEY (Australian Centre for Independent Journalism / Pacific Media Watch): The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism is staging a Forum on Reporting Refugees with Sarah Ferguson and...