Tag: human rights violations
NZ ‘inert’ over Israel’s ‘flagrant violations’ in occupied Palestine
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
No government likes to be called out for human rights abuses and it’s uncomfortable to do so, particularly when the abuser...
OPM call for PNG’s James Marape as negotiator for NZ pilot’s safe passage
Asia Pacific Report
Free Papua Organisation (OPM) leader Jeffrey Bomanak has appealed for Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape to become a “neutral intermediary”...
Wenda accuses Indonesia of imposing ‘martial law’ abuses on West Papua
Asia Pacific Report
A West Papuan leader has accused Indonesia of imposing a “martial law” on the Melanesian region in response to the kidnapping of...
John Minto: Israel’s new leadership demands NZ reassess its Middle East policy
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The swearing in of the extremist leadership in Israel demands the Aotearoa New Zealand government reassess its policy towards the Middle...
Revelations on the murky fate of flag ‘treason’ prisoners in West Papua
Today marks 1 December 1961 when the West Papuan national flag, the Morning Star was first raised and the date has been honoured across...
Media and academia: the intriguing case of the Pacific Media Center
By David Robie
Te Amokura: Pacific Media Centre (PMC) was founded at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) in October 2007 at a time of great...