Friday, June 15, 2012
Nick Grant
AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): The director of a documentary about New Zealand’s psychiatric hospitals hopes his film will encourage the government to publically apologise to...
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Step Vaessen in Jakarta
Escalating violence in the Indonesian-ruled province of Papua in the region of West Papua has left at least 16 people dead.
The tension rose after Indonesia was...
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
JAYAPURA (Asia-Pacific Solidarity Net / Tabloid Jubi /Pacific Media Watch): Indonesian police have warned several journalists working in Serui, Yapen district in Papua, including a journalist from...
Monday, June 11, 2012
Carmel Budiardjo BOOK REVIEW: Historians have recorded many massacres that occurred during the 20th century but few mention the massacres in Indonesia that took place during 1965-1966, which...
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...
