Article – David Swanson

Cases come in by the thousands from all over the world. A man was beaten and whipped. A woman was beaten and raped. A boy was hooded with three empty sand bags in 100-degree heat all day, starved, beaten, and kept in stress positions. Read more »

Press Release – Peace Movement Aotearoa

An update on the 2012 White Poppies for Peace Annual Appeal which is currently underway. There are street collections in Wellington and Dunedin on Monday, 23 April – the timetable for collectors for both street collections is being finalised tomorrow, … Read more »

Press Release – UNICEF

Over 14,000 thousand people, including 5,000 children, have been displaced from their homes due to flooding in the Western and Central Divisions of Fiji. Read more »

Press Release – West Papua Media Alerts

Two Papuan political prisoners who are being held in Biak Prison say that they are waiting for permission to go to Jayapura for medical treatment.They are both suffering serious medical conditions. Read more »

Press Release – The East Timor Action Network ETAN

March 30, 2012 – Ninety organizations today urged the U.S. government and Congress not to provide deadly attack helicopters to Indonesia. Indonesia has announced that it plans to buy eight AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from the United States. Read more »

Press Release – Salvation Army

The Salvation Army has launched an appeal to support flood-ravaged Fiji as the island nation braces itself for a tropical storm that is predicted to intensify to cyclone force. A state of natural disaster has been declared for most of Fiji’s Western … Read more »

Press Release – Rotary Club

Rotary New Zealand has once again been asked for support to assist the communities particularly on the western side of the main island of Viti Levu who are feeling the effects of the second major flood in eight weeks. Read more »

Press Release – West Papua Collective on Campus

Want to find out more about the struggle for self-determination in West Papua? Come along to a short film Witness: Pride of Warriors that will be followed by guest speaker Green MP Catherine Delahunty and a brief discussion. Read more »

Press Release – OHCHR

PORT MORESBY (26 March 2012) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo called* on the Government of Papua New Guinea to reinforce legal and support mechanisms in its fight to eradicate violence against women. At the end of her first fact-finding … Read more »

Press Release – Amnesty International

Countries that carried out executions in 2011 did so at an alarming rate but those employing capital punishment have decreased by more than a third compared to a decade ago, Amnesty International found in its annual review of death sentences and executions. Read more »