Open letter to PM Albanese: Canberra must call on UN to ‘rectify breaches’ over West Papuan decolonisation
Café Pacific
An author and human rights advocate for West Papuan self-determination today sent an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the...
Vila-based Indonesian ‘troll’ page targets Papuan advocates
By David Robie
As part of an Indonesian-backed disinformation and troll campaign against West Papuan pro-independence advocates, a Facebook page has emerged making bitter and...
Doc Edge abandons ‘provocative’ Israeli Embassy sponsorship for 2023 festival
By John Minto
The Doc Edge Film Festival has abandoned Israeli Embassy sponsorship this year after a furore caused by such sponsorship last year.
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Media challenges in a digital world – a Pacific perspective (Part one)
In a keynote address at the 2015 University of the South Pacific (USP) journalism awards, Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie, formerly head...
Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook
The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate and tireless campaigner against South African apartheid, once observed: “If you are neutral in...
As Pacific islanders, we bear the brunt of the climate crisis. The time to end fossil fuel dependence is now
Monday’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has given a “final warning” to avert global catastrophe. Pacific cabinet ministers call on all world...