press freedom

BURMA: Press law concerns after media chiefs detained

14 Nov

INDONESIA: Media 'action plan' for Southeast Asia

18 Oct

TIMOR-LESTE: Journalist prosecution attack on press freedom

10 Oct

PNG: Small Pacific states defiant over stronger climate change stance

11 Sep

SAMOA: Freedom of the press or pressed for freedom?

20 Aug

INDONESIA: Press freedom deteriorates in the region, says RSF report

4 May

AUDIO: PMW's Alistar Kata talks media freedom in West Papua

4 May

GLOBAL: Haaretz journalist warns of growing dangers for news media

1 May

WEST PAPUA: Open access now 'vital', say NZ journalists, rights activists

29 Apr

WEST PAPUA: NZ journalist calls for ‘extra mile’ in coverage of rights breaches

18 Aug

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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.