Corruption

NZ: RSF protests over ‘absurd’ ban on Australian journalist visiting NZ

10 Mar

PNG: From ‘anticipation, excitement’ to dictatorship fears in general election

7 Jul

PNG: Transparency sets up free hot line to report corruption during election

27 Jun

PNG: New governance watchdog PNGi exposes business networks of PM O'Neill

21 Jun

REGION: Indonesian anticorruption activist George Aditjondro dies in Palu

12 Dec

VIDEO: Student shootings in PNG, j-schools, corruption and climate change at WJEC16

11 Dec

GLOBAL: Anti-Corruption Day: Journalists on front line at risk

10 Dec

Anti-Corruption Day: Journalists on front line of fight against corruption

10 Dec

BURMA: Press law concerns after media chiefs detained

14 Nov

BURMA: ‘Let media in if there is nothing to hide’, says CPJ

8 Nov

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Pacific Media Watch article

4 Apr

NZ: Otago University will not answer Critic’s criticisms in virus editorial

DUNEDIN (RNZ News/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): New Zealand’s Otago University will not respond to questions from Critic, the student magazine on campus, during the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown.

The decision comes after Critic published a scathing editorial about the university’s response to the virus.

Pacific Media Watch article

3 Apr

PHILIPPINES: Duterte’s ‘shoot them dead’ virus order to troops slammed as dangerous

MANILA (Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): The International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) has strongly condemned the shoot-to-kill order by President Rodrigo Duterte this week as a ‘dangerous’ opening to target and kill anyone in a public space.

“We are raising the alarm in the international community on President Duterte’s directive to kill unruly violators of the coronavirus quarantine,” said coalition president Peter Murphy.

Publication

17 Feb

Pacific Media Centre Annual Review 2019

The Pacific Media Centre (PMC) had another busy and productive year publishing, researching and providing advocacy on several Asia-Pacific issues.

Publication

31 Jul

Toktok No 39 / Winter 2019

PMC UNVEILS CREATIVE SHOWCASE

Event

Amnesty On Campus: Human rights and Southeast Asia

6pm - 8 pm, Wednesday, March 18
Pat Hanan Room, Arts 2, University of Auckland

CANCELLED AS A PUBLIC HEALTH PRECAUTION

AMNESTY ON CAMPUS UoA: HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Speakers:
Media freedom and Southeast Human Rights: Focus on the Philippines - Professor David Robie, director, Pacific Media Centre
West Papua - Author Maire Leadbeater
Violations against the Rohingya - Kyaw

Event

Melanesian Media Freedom Forum 2019

MELANESIAN MEDIA FREEDOM FORUM 2019 - November 11-13
The Melanesian Media Freedom Forum was developed to respond to increasing media repression in Melanesia and to future-proof press freedom, though trans-national regional co-operation and knowledge-sharing among Melanesian journalists, editors, publishers, press-freedom advocates and journalism scholars.