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Benny Wenda's West Papua freedom tour
Monday, February 4, 2013 - 16:36
Come to hear Benny Wenda, a West Papuan tribal leader and one of the leading voices of the peaceful independence movement. Benny is currently living in exile in the UK. He is the founder of the...
David Robie's inaugural journalism professorial address
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 19:46
LIVESTREAMING: David Robie: Professorial public lecture: Truth, censorship, ethics and corporate integrity are increasingly critical media issues in the digital age for a region faced with coups,...
FILM: Strange Birds in Paradise - a West Papuan story
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...
The Arab Spring from a Kiwi Al Jazeera journo's perspective
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...
Pacific Islands Forum 2011 and related events
Friday, August 19, 2011 - 16:45
Pacific Islands Forum and related civil society events that are being covered by the Asia-Pacific Journalism students at AUT University:
Muslim women's rights are human rights
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 19:34
The Umma Trust and the Pacific Media Centre warmly invite you to a public forum on “Muslim Women Rights is Human Rights”. Sisters in Islam is a Muslim Women's NGO in Malaysia...
New Zealand NOT for sale - Murray Horton speaking tour
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 18:40
Murray Horton, spokesperson of the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA), critiques the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and dangers posed to the New Zealand economy and democracy.
Café Pacific: Coups, conflicts and human rights - Pacific media challenges
Thursday, May 23, 2013
David Robie: At the heart of a global crisis over news media credibility and trust has been Britain's so-called Hackgate scandal involving allegations of phone-hacking and corruption against the...
PNG: Opposition leader backs free media in battle against government
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Daniel Drageset: AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Opposition leader Belden Namah reiterated Tuesday the importance of independent media in Papua New Guinea.
FIJI: Rabuka refuses to reveal name of coup co-conspirators
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Rohit Deo SUVA (Fijivillage.com /Pacific Media Watch): Fiji's 1987 coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka says that it is up to the people of the country to forgive him for his actions. A young woman...
The terrible legacy of Fiji’s national trauma of May 1987
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Graham Davis COMMENTARY: The 26th anniversary of the first 1987 Coup has revived some traumatic memories for many of us who lived through it – the shock, the air of menace, the violence, the...
WEST PAPUA: Peace journalist seeks NZ support amid Indonesian crackdown
Monday, May 13, 2013
Jamie Small AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Centre / Pacific Media Watch): A prominent West Papuan journalist and activist has visited New Zealand to gather support for West Papua’s inclusion in the...
Pacific Scoop challenges political elites over health, human rights, social justice
Friday, May 10, 2013
Jane Jeffries REPORT: “Journalism is in crisis in the Pacific region and this is reaching a new level of intensity,” says one editor. But independent Pacific Scoop challenges the status...
Papua peace journalist tries to drum up NZ support amid Indonesian crackdown
Friday, May 10, 2013
Jamie Small REPORT: A UN Commissioner says that over the last year her office has received 26 reports of alleged human rights violations in West Papua, many of which are linked to law enforcement...
NZ: 'Media freedom worrier' stirs lively responses to press threats speech
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Anna Magavu AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Centre / Pacific Media Watch): Media commentators, media freedom advocates, journalists and academics welcomed New Zealand's inaugural UNESCO World...

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