Elections

NZ: Labour Party needs to ‘reach back into the Pacific community’, says panel

18 Aug

PNG: Stay order on PM O'Neill's arrest dismissed by court

10 Aug

REGION: Southern Cross explores NZ climate commitments, PNG elections, drug wars

9 Aug

PNG: O'Neill re-elected prime minister following 'chaotic' day in parliament

2 Aug

PNG: Ombudsman wins court order to extend electoral writs deadline

29 Jul

PNG: RSF condemns media freedom 'violations', gag in election

25 Jul

REGION: Southern Cross talks detention centres, PNG and Timor-Leste elections

24 Jul

TIMOR-LESTE: Fretilin’s win ‘victory for all’ but unity coalition will govern

24 Jul

PNG: O’Neill’s government loses ministers, Speaker and deputy PM

23 Jul

TIMOR-LESTE: Fretilin denounces 'acts of terror, intimidation' on election eve

22 Jul

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Pacific Media Watch article

5 Jun

VANUATU: Airport security force journalist to delete NZ repatriation photos

PORT VILA (Vanuatu Daily Post/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): A Vanuatu Daily Post journalist was forced to delete all photos of a repatriation aircraft’s arrival in Port Vila from New Zealand, captured outside the domestic perimeter fence this week.

Pacific Media Watch article

4 Jun

INDONESIA: Jokowi ‘violates the law’ for banning internet in Papua, court rules

By Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): A panel of judges at the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) has granted a lawsuit filed by civil society groups against the Indonesian government’s decision to impose an internet blackout during weeks of protests in Papua and West Papua provinces last year, declaring that such a move violated the law.

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.