The documentary film “The Act of Killing” reflects the ongoing impunity enjoyed by the paramilitary groups responsible for the crimes of Suharto’s regime in Indonesia in the late 1960s....
The advent of social media has altered the communication of relationships in myriad ways. High school friends – lost years before to different colleges, cross-country moves, and growing families...
It is difficult to treat communication separately from the other elements that have developed and sometimes become challenges in the society of today. If not all, most of the...
2014 marks the 40th year of the Pacific Conference of Churches’ efforts to bring justice to a region affected by nuclear testing.
...Media freedom as an issue in the Pacific has been defined in far too narrow terms, as if Big Brother governments and politicians ignorant about the role of media...
There are some 20,000 to 30,000 islands in the Pacific Ocean. Most of these Pacific Islands are collectively referred to as Oceania and are traditionally grouped into Melanesia, Micronesia,...
September 13 marks seven years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
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A new “truly human-centered” approach to development should include “freedom of expression and media development,” according to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova.
...Castries Saint Lucia. May 12th 2014. As the communities around the world observe World Telecommunications and Information Society Day (WTISD) on May 17th 2014, a grouping of Caribbean...
WACC member and former director Gotson Pierre of Haiti has been designated an “information hero” by the media freedom organization Reporters Without Borders.
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