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GLOBAL: Mediawatch - Al Jazeera caught in the Qatar crisis crossfire

19 Jun

NZ: Military chief’s Op Burnham account highlights key Afghan legal concerns

4 Apr

PNG: Protests over new harassment of journalists at court hearing

29 Jul

PNG: Trial begins for Rabaul Shipping ferry disaster case

12 Apr

GLOBAL: De Brum, Nuclear Zero nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

3 Feb

WEST PAPUA: Jokowi pledges to sort past rights cases but ignores Papua

12 Jan

FIJI: Crusading police chief quits over army meddling

12 Nov

WEST PAPUA: Special envoy calls on Indonesia to 'honour' Forum rights move

13 Sep

REGION: Freedom campaigner says West Papua now regional 'Pacific' issue

8 Sep

BOUGAINVILLE: Protesters call for government action over missing people

30 Aug

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Article

25 Aug

West Papua’s road to 'independence', following the Timorese lead?

The groundswell of regional support continues to grow in the Pacific - and also globally - for West Papuan self-determination, writes David Robie. The latest repression only adds to this momentum.

Indonesia’s harsh policies towards West Papua ought to be scrapped. Whatever happened to the brief window of enlightenment ushered in by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in 2015 with promises of a more “open door” policy towards foreign journalists and human rights groups?

Pacific Media Watch article

24 Aug

WEST PAPUA: RSF calls for immediate end to internet blackout

PARIS (Reporters Without Borders/Pacific Media Watch): Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for an immediate end to a two-day-old internet blackout in West Papua, where Indonesian security forces have been clashing with Papuan pro-independence demonstrators.

The blackout violates the freedom to inform and makes it hard for journalists to work, RSF said.

Publication

1 Aug

The NZ Mosque Massacre: Dilemmas for journalism and democracy

Edited by David Robie and Philip Cass

Publication

1 Jun

Science Writing and Climate Change - a new environmental journalism book

“Disaster reporting, which focuses on deaths and casualties for the benefit of local readers, is understandable.

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.