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

4 Jun

WEST PAPUA: Free media advocate files UN plea against internet ‘blackout’, targeted by hacker

26 Aug

WEST PAPUA: RSF calls for immediate end to internet blackout

23 Aug

TONGA: Parliament hastily passes 2 bills to control internet access

9 Oct

REGION: Better ICTs could change media across the Pacific

18 May

NAURU: Facebook block 'temporary' to protect public from 'sex perverts'

13 May

NZ: Mixed reaction over 'gang of four' mass surveillance impact on election

17 Sep

NZ: PM Key accused of allowing secret 'spook' cable sensors to spy on citizens

16 Sep

GLOBAL: Vietnam, China, Pakistan and North Korea key 'enemies of internet'

13 Mar

NZ: Scoop’s co-founder and chief editor Thompson quits - or on sabbatical?

16 Jan

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Pacific Media Watch article

6 Jul

NZ: RNZ Mediawatch: Forcing the issue of race at the Herald

By Hayden Donnell, RNZ Mediawatch producer
WELLINGTON (RNZ Mediawatch/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): The New Zealand Herald recently published a column which criticises its own record on race. Teuila Fuatai explains why she felt she had to call out the paper that commissioned her.

Pacific Media Watch article

6 Jul

REGION: Pacific bombs, nuclear weapons and the Rongelap evacuation

AUCKLAND (95bFM/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): Thirty five years ago this week Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie was an environmental journalist on board the original Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace flagship that was bombed by French secret agents on 10 July 1985.

He was on board for almost 11 weeks and joined the Greenpeace campaigners in the Marshall Islands to rescue the Rongelap islanders from the legacy of US nuclear tests.

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.