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Missing Lao Activist Sombath – More Questions than Answers

Missing Lao Activist Sombath – More Questions than Answers

On 15 December 2012, Sombath Somphone, a civil rights activist, disappeared in Vietiane, Lao. Sombath Somphone had a high profile at the Asian-Europe People’s Forum. His work, safeguarding the environment and ensur ...

Body Count: Children Killed in Thailand’s South

Body Count: Children Killed in Thailand’s South

In October this year, an 11-year old boy was killed along with his father when militants shot at them. They were in a pickup truck, driving in Thailand’s province, Yala. This is not the first assault on childre ...

West Papua: Remembering 51 years of oppression

West Papua: Remembering 51 years of oppression

Dusk is falling across Melbourne and West Papua, but not over the dreams of the Papuan people. Today, remembering 51 years of oppression having been denied the right to self-determination, the West Papuan people gath ...

Murder of an Idea

Murder of an Idea

Murder of an Idea & Coronation of a Broken Circle - By General Popó ...

Indonesian police open fire on KNPB demonstration, West Papua
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Indonesian police open fire on KNPB demonstration, West Papua

Indonesian TV news channel footage of police shooting into the KNPB demonstration on 23rd October 2012 in West Papua ...

Burma’s Rohingya – The Human Story
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Burma’s Rohingya – The Human Story

Until now, the mainstream media has failed to report on this issue from inside Myanmar as there are security concerns of filming there. Restless Beings has put together this film to demonstrate the type of harsh tre ...

Poverty is the cruel yoke of oppression.

Poverty is the cruel yoke of oppression.

Poverty. A terrible solitude. Ostracism from sanity. Plenty beyond the horizon, you will find at every corner of a mega city and town, to the paddy fields and palm oil plantations. Poverty is a negation of free will ...

UK defends Indonesia arms sales as military run riot in Papua

UK defends Indonesia arms sales as military run riot in Papua

Today UK human rights campaigners called for an immediate ban on all arms sales to Indonesia, following Wednesday’s brutal rampage by Indonesian security forces in the troubled Papua region. ...

Big executive pay, golden parachutes at Freeport McMoRan

Big executive pay, golden parachutes at Freeport McMoRan

Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. executives receive hefty salaries and stock bonuses but they’ve also set up very large golden parachutes in case the Phoenix-based copper miner gets acquired. ...

Oklahoma Couple Discover Just How Dangerous The Grasberg Mine Really Is
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Oklahoma Couple Discover Just How Dangerous The Grasberg Mine Really Is

Mike Dillard, chief executive officer of Century Martial Arts and a prominent area developer, is a well known adrenaline junkie — but even he admits he was shaken by his latest adventure. What began as a recent att ...

Rwanda, Unsafe to Speak Out
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Rwanda, Unsafe to Speak Out

If there’s one person in the world that Kagame fears today, it is Victoire Ingabire - the Rwandan Aung San Suu Kyi ...

The Third Papuan People’s Congress – by traverser11 & Nick Chesterfield
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The Third Papuan People’s Congress – by traverser11 & Nick Chesterfield

Excellent short documentary by traverser11 and Nick Chesterfield for West Papua Media covering the recent Third Papuan People's Congress in Abepura on October 19th. ...

Jacob Rumbiak and West Papua Political Transition
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Jacob Rumbiak and West Papua Political Transition

West Papuans want to reiterate their demands that the only acceptable offering from Indonesia is self-determination leading to West Papua's complete independence from Indonesia ...

Benny Wenda: Indonesia’s Silent Genocide in West Papua

Benny Wenda: Indonesia’s Silent Genocide in West Papua

Over 400,000 civilians have been killed by the Indonesian security forces in West Papua since the early 1960s, and the last month has seen some of the bloodiest incidents in recent times. We have suffered daily acts ...

3,000 Papuans Gather in Jayapura for Pro-Independence Rally

3,000 Papuans Gather in Jayapura for Pro-Independence Rally

Thousands of protesters staged a pro-independence rally in Indonesia’s restive and resource-rich Papua region Monday demanding a referendum for self-determination. Protest coordinator Mako Tabuni said, “The Papua ...

New Video Of Last Month’s Brutal Crackdown In West Papua
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New Video Of Last Month’s Brutal Crackdown In West Papua

Newly released footage detailing the violent crackdown of the 3rd Papuan People's Congress on October 19th. ...

Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark
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Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark

This is the Arab revolution that was abandoned by the Arabs, forsaken by the West and forgotten by the world. ...

Georgia: Rage Against the Regime, protests in face of force
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Georgia: Rage Against the Regime, protests in face of force

Thousands of protesters have been rallying for several days now in Georgia with the goal to overthrow President Mikhail Saakashvili. ...

Belarus: Activist Jailed for Taking Part in “Mass Unrest”

Belarus: Activist Jailed for Taking Part in “Mass Unrest”

Belarusian political activist, Mikita Likhavid, has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in a maximum security prison after being found guilty of taking part in "mass unrest" in December. ...

Indonesian Military Continues Crackdown in West Papua – Innocent Civilians Killed

Indonesian Military Continues Crackdown in West Papua – Innocent Civilians Killed

2 Papuan civilians shot dead in military raid on village in highlands. ...

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