Friday, August 26, 2011 - 17:16
While the Indonesian army continues to dominate the indigenous inhabitants of West Papua, three friends gather in Melbourne to record outlawed folk songs with renowned Australian rock musicologist...
Saturday, August 6, 2011 - 11:24
The so-called Arab Spring has spawned a revolutionary wave across the Arab world - with protests and uprisings from Algeria to Saudi Arabia. Egypt, Tunisia and Libya have seen the biggest upheavals...
Friday, August 19, 2011 - 16:00
You are warmly invited to join Amnesty International and the Pacific Media Centre for the launch of a new human rights report on violence against women in the Pacific followed by a panel discussion...
Friday, July 15, 2011 - 17:53
Brother Number One, a New Zealand documentary about the torture and murder of yachtsman Kerry Hamill by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in 1978, has been launched at international film festivals in New...
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
AUCKLAND (Pacific Scoop/ Pacific Media Watch): Social justice advocate and Pacific campaigner Keith Locke has been named winner of Amnesty International’s Aotearoa Human Rights Defender Award...
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Alex Perrottet and David Robie: This research report covers the period 1 July 2010-30 June 2011 and examines the trends in the Pacific region. In addition to Pacific Islands Forum member nations, it...
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Parijata Gurdayal
SUVA (Pacific Scoop/Pacific Media Watch): The media needs to increase its commitment to reporting on climate change issues in order to safeguard those affected, says human...
Thursday, February 23, 2012
SYDNEY (International Federation of Journalists / Pacific Media Watch): The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Pacific Freedom Forum (PFF) are gravely concerned by the...
Monday, February 20, 2012
Former Philippines President Fidel V. Ramos
OPINION: MANILA (Manila Bulletin / Pacific Media Watch): It is time again to commemorate our EDSA People Power Revolution. We mark its 26th...
Saturday, February 18, 2012
SYDNEY (Radio NZ International / Pacific Media Watch): A leading researcher on West Papua says the trial of five Papuan leaders for treason has hallmarks of being another public relations disaster...
Friday, January 20, 2012
Simon Scott and Naing Ko Ko
ANALYSIS: For a long time, it was easy for us to hold an opinion on Burma. It fitted neatly into the classic dichotomy of good and evil. The regime – made up...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Nigel Moffiet: ANALYSIS: Reported incidents of human rights abuses inflicted on the West Papuan people at the mercy of the Indonesian military includes widespread violence, killings, torture,...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Fay Volatabu
OPINION: SUVA (The Fiji Times / Pacific Media Watch): I have a five-year-old nephew and a niece who are a year apart. It is interesting that the two used to do things together but...
Monday, January 16, 2012
JAKARTA: A survey jointly conducted by two Indonesian non-government organisations – the Partnership for Governance Reform (Kemitraan) and the Legal Aid Institute (LBH) – has found that...
Thursday, December 15, 2011
MELBOURNE (Radio Australia Pacific Beat / Pacific Media Watch): One of the leaders of the Australian and NZ union delegation deported from Fiji, the president of the Australian Council of Trade...
