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EU-funded community theatre builds courage among Solomon Islands women

20:43 May 19th, 2013
British Council project coorindator MCs the launch at SIPPA offices

Doreen Kupar, a champion of Solomon Islands women rights, speaking at the launch in Honiara. Image: BC

Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Ingrid Leary in Honiara

For years, female survivors of domestic violence in the Solomon Islands have been afraid of saying anything in public, unable to find a way to stand up to the oppressive abuse they experience on a regular basis at home.

Now, however, all that could change, thanks to a striking display of physical theatre which is giving women the courage to come forward.

The Stage of Change theatre workshop was launched in Honiara at the weekend. Read more »

Media freedom ‘great achievement’ in Afghanistan, says BBC reporter

10:31 May 17th, 2013
Jon Stephenson and Bilal Sarwary

New Zealand journalist Jon Stephenson and BBC television reporter Bilal Sarwary discuss Afghanistan last night. Image: Del Abcede/PMC

Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Daniel Drageset of Pacific Media Watch

Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary has hailed media freedom as one of the accomplishments in Afghanistan over the last decade.

The Kabul-based reporter working for the BBC expressed this view at a Pacific Media Centre seminar in AUT University last night.

In a Q&A session with New Zealand journalist Jon Stephenson, who has also done extensive reporting in Afghanistan, Sarwary noted the big steps Afghanistan has taken in media freedom. Read more »

Fatty meat imports issue at Pacific forum boosts local food focus

13:20 May 12th, 2013
Gatoloaifaana Amataga Alesana-Gidlow

Samoa’s Gatoloaifaana Amataga Alesana-Gidlow … seeks a NZ ban on fatty meat exports to the Pacific. Image: IISD

At last month’s Pacific parliamentary forum in Wellington, delegates from around the region called for New Zealand to stop exporting fatty meat to the Pacific. The fatty offcuts being exported have been partially blamed for the rise of non-communicable diseases in the Pacific. But Holly Ryan reports for Asia-Pacific Journalism on other concerns.

Pacific Scoop:
Backgrounder – By Holly Ryan

While non-communicable diseases in the Pacific have been on the rise over the last few decades and are partially blamed on the dumping of cheap, fatty food in the region, shortages of healthy locally grown foods are also a problem.

Fatty food supplies from New Zealand again faced controversy at last month’s Pacific Parliamentary and Politics Forum with calls for such exports to be banned.

“All we can do is keep reminding the government and ministries to not back off and to keep pushing for change,” says Cook Islands Democratic Party MP Selina Napa, who was among those at the forum. Read more »

Pacific Scoop challenges political elites over health, human rights, social justice

20:48 May 10th, 2013
Benny Wenda and Henry Yamo

West Papuan Benny Wenda and PNG student journalist Henry Yamo … “Pacific Scoop deserves praise for keeping an eye on Papua and other trouble spots in the Pacific.” Image: Del Abceded/PMC

“Journalism is in crisis in the Pacific region and this is reaching a new level of intensity,” says one editor. But independent Pacific Scoop challenges the status quo. Jane Jeffries reports for Asia-Pacific Journalism.

Pacific Scoop
Report – By Jane Jeffries

Pacific Scoop exposes New Zealand to Pacific issues and gives a fresh voice to people in the region on a wide range of topics including health, human rights, media and social justice, say journalists and media commentators.

This regional independent news website provides a strong platform for Pacific issues to be heard and debated. Mainstream media no longer report widely on Pacific issues so it plays a vital role, say the media analysts.

Pacific Scoop and its founding partner, Wellington-based Scoop Media Limited, last month announced a new $5000 internship to fund a postgraduate student journalist to report and edit for the service. Read more »

Papua peace journalist tries to drum up NZ support amid Indonesian crackdown

14:00 May 10th, 2013
Octavianus Mote

Peace negotiator Octovianus Mote … exiled from West Papua by the Indonesian government in 1999. Image: Jamie Small/PMC

A UN Commissioner says that over the last year her office has received 26 reports of alleged human rights violations in West Papua, many of which are linked to law enforcement officials. Jamie Small reports for Asia-Pacific Journalism.

Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Jamie Small

A prominent West Papuan journalist and activist has visited New Zealand to gather support for West Papua’s inclusion in the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG)  while an Indonesian government crackdown was killing and arresting Papuan demonstrators.

A former Papua regional editor of Kompas newspaper, Octovianus Mote visited in his role as chair of the five elected “peace negotiator” representatives of West Papua.

He says his visit has raised support among a solidarity group in New Zealand, but he doesn’t think the government is supportive of the cause. Read more »

Proposed new Samoan law may change identity criteria

12:37 May 10th, 2013
Rev Uesifili Unasa, says the current legal definition of a Samoan is incomplete,

Rev Uesifili Unasa … current legal definition of a Samoan is “incomplete”. Image: Public.Issues.Methodist.Blog

Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Lei Shi

The Samoan government is proposing a new law that may change the current definition of national identity as a “Samoan”.

Iuni Sapolu, a Samoan-born lawyer based in South Auckland, says all Samoans should be informed about the proposed changes to what it means to be a Samoan.

“There is a distinction between a Samoan and a Samoan citizen. In this proposed draft, a Samoan equals a Samoan citizen plus Samoan blood. Read more »

Truth-telling, culture, constitutions and media regulation

13:48 May 04th, 2013

Pacific Scoop:
Report – The Pacific Media Centre news desk

AUT University student journalist Michael Sergel talks to Australian academic, journalist and author Professor Mark Pearson of Griffith University, Australia, about truth-telling, culture, constitutions and media regulation.

Dr Pearson, author of The Journalist’s Guide to Media Law, delivered the inaugural UNESCO World Press Freedom Lecture at Auckland last night.

The event was organised by the Pacific Media Centre in AUT’s School of Communication Studies. Read more »

Media academic warns over digital surveillance, seeks new ethical model

12:32 May 04th, 2013
Professor Mark Pearson ... Image: PMCV/AUT On Demand

Professor Mark Pearson last night … disturbing trends for journalists’ protection of their confidential sources. Image: PMC/AUT On Demand

Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Anna Majavu

A leading journalism academic has voiced concern at the high levels of digital surveillance facing journalists today and has urged journalists to adopt a new ethical model of reporting for social good.

Dr Mark Pearson, professor of journalism and social media at Griffith University in Australia and the Australian correspondent for Reporters Without Borders, spoke last night at the inaugural UNESCO World Press Freedom Day 2013 lecture, organised by AUT’s Pacific Media Centre.

The lack of press freedom in the Asia-Pacific region was well documented with media in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Fiji needing government licences to operate, and journalists in Malaysia facing 53-year-old “internal security” laws under which they could be detained for long periods for “prejudicing national security”. Read more »

Media academic calls for stronger support for NZ, Australian press freedom

9:56 May 03rd, 2013

Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Daniel Drageset

A media law specialist has called for a boost in support for media organisations in the defence of media freedom in Australia and New Zealand instead of taking it for granted in a message on World Press Freedom Day.

Professor Mark Pearson of Griffith University, who is delivering the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day lecture at AUT University in Auckland tonight, had earlier also given a message about Pacific media freedom.

Many people in New Zealand and Australia have hardly heard about World Press Freedom Day, coordinated by UNESCO all over the globe today – May 3. Read more »

NZ ‘racist’ but views divided over power of Kiwi gatekeepers

17:50 April 27th, 2013
Cameras roll at the Ethnic People's Advisory Panel racism conference at AUT University today. Image: Del Abcede/PMC

Cameras roll at the Ethnic People’s Advisory Panel racism conference at AUT University today. Image: Del Abcede/PMC

Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Anna Majavu

New Zealand is a racist place, say participants in an ethnicity forum – but views are divided on whether the problem is a lack of tolerance across the board or white institutional racism against people of colour.

Auckland mayor Len Brown told a conference on racism convened by Auckland Council’s Ethnic People’s Advisory Panel at AUT University today that racism existed in New Zealand and Auckland, and that it should be combated.

But he also claimed that New Zealanders had confronted racism “from the get go”. Read more »

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