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.
Dr David Robie
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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?
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West Papua: The crackdown aftermath – finding a dignified solution
From the voices we do not hear in the New Zealand media about West Papua. Hundreds of peaceful Papuan protesters were arrested and detained this week. Visit Asia Pacific Report for comprehensive reports and read West Papuan Reverend Benny Giay’s measured analysis in this guest blog.
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Polar bear mojo for Greenpeace captain’s environmental thriller
Peter Willcox was captain of the bombed Rainbow Warrior in Auckland in 1985. Now he has a new book out next week that tells his agenda-setting story over three decades from the Rainbow Warrior sabotage to being thrown into Russian jails for two months and charged with piracy as skipper of the Arctic Sunrise in an oil drilling rig protest.
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TPP pact signed amid huge protests – Asia Pacific Report
The new website Asia Pacific Report – just one week old – provided extensive coverage of the democracy protest in Auckland. Asia Pacific, published by AUT’s Pacific Media Centre, has a range of stories, pictures, video and comment.
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New Asia Pacific Report website takes off
An enterprising new media collaboration between a journalism centre and an independent news organisation takes off tonight in a bid to bolster Asia Pacific news and analysis in New Zealand. – Item from Pacific Media Watch.