Journalism as it plays out on the ‘real’ human rights frontlines
The inaugural Pogau Award for courage in journalism: “Every year this award will always remind us about the human rights abuses never addressed in Indonesia since the 1965 massacre.”
Author: Dr. David Robie
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Colourful, vibrant Aotearoa rally condemns Trump’s ‘racist, Islamophobic’ bans
Quote: “They continue a pattern of white supremacist immigration exclusion in colonial settler countries like the United States. Bill English refusing to call it for what it is – racist – is a dangerously weak response and doesn’t represent the people of Aotearoa.”
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What now for the Tongan Democrats looking ahead to 2018?
People have a sense of some hope, some improvement. The “change of style” introduced by the Democracy Coalition to Tonga’s politics is something the people can still support despite the “hiccups”, says ‘Atenisi’s Dr Michael Horowitz.
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Florida airport massacre – few basic questions being raised
What has struck me most is that several key issues have barely been covered in the media soul-searching, topmost being the bizarre gun culture itself.
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Carry on Fidel Castro’s global legacy, says Cuban ambassador
Fundamental rights – the right to food, education and health – need to come before a narrow Western concept of human rights.
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Philippines president’s ‘hit man’ allegations spur renewed calls for killings probe
“Our job was to kill criminals like drug pushers, rapists, snatchers. That’s what we did. We killed people almost every day.” Allegations of a former hit man in Senate testimony about life with the new Philippines president.
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Rendezvous with the ‘no nukes’ Vanuatu cover girl after 33 years
“No nukes”: A remarkable scene in Port Vila’s Independence Park in 1983 during the region’s second Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific Movement conference revisited three decades on.
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‘That day I saw the power of media, and how it can be tragic’
Emily Matasororo was on campus that fateful day last month in Papua New Guinea when heavily armed police in camouflage fatigues opened fire with tear gas and live rounds on the peaceful students. She tells her story and what needs to happen now.
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Fresh wave of mass arrests to intimidate West Papuans
“The biggest human rights disaster in the Pacific is happening [just north-west of New Zealand] and we West Papuans are worried that if this genocide and illegal occupation continues to be ignored, in the next few decades we will be completely wiped out from our own country.” – Benny Wenda
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Strange local silence over shocking PNG shooting of peaceful student protesters
The Papua New Guinea police opened fire yesterday on a group of students at the University of Papua New Guinea who were peacefully protesting against the alleged corruption of Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. Several eye-witnesses have come forward to say they saw students beaten and shot at, including one case where a student was shot in the head. Why the muted attention from much of our media?