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Maire Leadbeater reflects on West Papua’s ‘Arab Spring’
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Maire Leadbeater: OPINION: It was not in the headlines, but our neighbourhood has had its own ‘Arab Spring’. The Melanesian people of Indonesian-controlled West Papua, have shown the same...
New Papuan protests demand Indonesia take responsibility for human rights abuses
Monday, October 31, 2011
West Papua Media correspondents in Jayapura Fresh demonstrations were being held in Jayapura today demanding Indonesia take formal and legal responsibility for ongoing human rights abuses in West...
Fiji's poverty blight - a case for advocacy journalism
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Shailendra Singh OPINION: Poverty is proving to be an intractable problem in Fiji. Various reports put poverty at 33 to 47 percent of the population. The Fiji Council for Social Services, which works...
WEST PAPUA: Journalists report on hardship village realities
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Anita Rachman JAKARTA (Jakarta Globe/Pacific Media Watch): Eighty percent of Papuans live in the approximately 3000 kampongs spread across the country’s largest province, so any meaningful...
FIJI: Academic says media freedom can reduce poverty
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Serelisoni Moceica SUVA (Fiji Times / Pacific Media Watch): It is in the interest of all stakeholders to recognise and support the crucial contributions the media makes in reducing poverty, an...
GLOBAL: Photojournalist launches new Rainbow Warrior, Mon Amour book
Saturday, August 27, 2011
PARIS (Glénat Books/Pacific Media Watch): As the global environmental group Greenpeace prepares to mark four decades of campaigning for a greener planet next month, a French photojournalist...
REGION: Ousting of Tongan police chief blow to domestic violence campaign
Friday, August 19, 2011
Victoria Young AUCKLAND (Pacific Scoop/Pacific Media Watch): Tongan police will go backwards without the leadership of ousted Police Commissioner Chris Kelley, warns the director of the kingdom...
Poroporoaki to AUT Chancellor Sir Paul Reeves
Monday, August 15, 2011
The death of AUT Chancellor Sir Paul Reeves at the weekend was a great loss to his family and to New Zealand, says the Governor-General, Sir Anand Satyanand. ”Sir Paul Reeves was a great...
FIJI: Pensioners launch website to inform public about cut-backs
Monday, August 1, 2011
SUVA: (Save Fiji Pensions/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji's pensioners launched a website today to make information available about the government's  intention to cut their superannuation...
Battle to seek justice for Fiji pensioners strikes new legal defining point
Monday, August 1, 2011
Professor Wadan Narsey: ANALYSIS: Fiji’s system of law and justice is at a historically defining point with the Burness/Shameem case against the Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF).
End FNPF subsidy to Fiji governments - linking the many battles
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Wadan Narsey: ANALYSIS: There are many battles going on over the Fiji National Provident Fund pensions.
REGION: Amnesty exposes Pacific struggle against oppression and corruption
Thursday, May 12, 2011
AUCKLAND: As the world’s attention focuses on the human rights revolution sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa, Amnesty International’s latest report reveals Pacific people...
AUSTRALIA: IFJ urges Fairfax to rethink axing hundreds of jobs
Saturday, May 7, 2011
SYDNEY: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins Australia’s Media Alliance in calling on Fairfax Media to fairly consult its journalists in an effort to avoid axing hundreds...
The death of Osama bin Laden - an alternative perspective
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
OPINION: The fact that Osama bin Laden, a man who fought his enemies with violence that frequently killed the innocent, is now dead could be a positive development… But it’s a pity that...
Thousands stage rallies across West Papua to demand referendum
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Victor Yeimo in Jayapura reports for Pacific Scoop: Thousands of the people of West Papua, coordinated by the West Papua National Committee, have held rallies across Papua to demand a referendum to...

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