Identity Transduction Systems (ITS)

08/03/2020

Malaysian Colonialism in Papua New Guinea.

14/12/2019

The end of a shift.

07/09/2019

Indonesia: Investigate Deaths of Papuan Protesters

“Indonesian police have a duty to avoid the use of force in response to Papuans who take their grievances to the streets,” said Elaine Pearson. “Any wrongful use of force needs to be investigated and those responsible held to account.”

(Sydney) – Indonesian authorities should impartially investigate the deaths of at least 10 Papuans during recent unrest in the easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua.

06/09/2019

ABC dodges surveillance to meet Papuan activist fighting for independence

Papuan race riots lay bare long-running tensions, fuelling push for independence from Indonesia

Seemingly followed by military intelligence officials, the ABC shakes its tail to meet with an activist forced into hiding due to her support for Papuan provinces' independence from Indonesia.

04/09/2019

Thailand: make enforced disappearance a crime under national law | Prachatai English

Thailand: make enforced disappearance a crime under national law

The Thai government must urgently pass a draft law to address the heinous crimes of torture and enforced disappearances, after amending it to comply with Thailand’s international law obligations, Amnesty International said today (30 August), the International Day of the Disappeared.

03/09/2019

Myanmar forces Rohingya to accept cards that preclude citizenship, says group | Malay Mail

Myanmar authorities are forcing members of the Muslim minority at gunpoint to accept identity cards that categorise them as foreigners, stripping them of the chance to become citizens, a rights group said

YANGON, Sept 3 — Myanmar authorities are forcing members of the Rohingya Muslim minority at gunpoint to accept identity cards that categorise them as foreigners, stripping them of the chance to become citizens, a rights group said today. Myanmar has drawn global condemnation for its treatment of.....

03/09/2019

U.S., France, Britain may be complicit in Yemen war crimes, U.N....

The United States, Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by arming and providing intelligence and logistics support to a Saudi-led coalition that starves civilians as a war tactic, the United Nations said

The United States, Britain and France may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen by...

03/09/2019

Iranian musician risks his freedom to promote human rights | DW | 03.09.2019

Mehdi Rajabian could be sent back to prison at anytime, but he continues to produce music banned under Iran's strict censorship laws. His new album shares a message of peace from artists around the Middle East.

30/08/2019

Native American lawsuit: New Jersey tribe sues over land use

Native American lawsuit: New Jersey tribe sues over land use

A Native American tribe in the United States state of New Jersey has filed a federal lawsuit against its neighbours. The Ramapough Lenape Nation accuses a ho...

27/08/2019

Thai PM breached constitution by failing to vow to uphold it:...

Thailand's prime minister and his cabinet breached the constitution by failing to recite the full oath of allegiance when they were sworn in before the king last month, the Office of the Ombudsman said on Tuesday.

Thailand's prime minister and his cabinet breached the constitution by fail...

27/08/2019

Amazon rainforest fires: Brazil to reject $20m pledged by G7

Brazil will reject the offer from G7 countries of $20m to help fight fires in the Amazon, government sources have said, with a senior official telling French president Emmanuel Macron to take care of “his home and his colonies.”

Senior official says funds should be spent on reforesting Europe and not on ‘colonialist practices’

26/08/2019

Thailand: Investigate Detainee’s Death

“Thai leaders need to demonstrate that they are serious about conducting an independent investigation and prosecute any wrongdoing or risk complicity for yet another unlawful conduct of soldiers.”

Thai authorities should immediately conduct an independent and credible investigation into the death of a suspected insurgent after being interrogated in military custody, Human Rights Watch said today.

22/08/2019

What sparked latest violence in Indonesia’s Papua?

The latest riots were triggered by the alleged mistreatment and racist verbal abuse of Papuan students in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, over an Indonesian flag that was found to have been damaged.

In restive Papua, a separatist movement has simmered since the 1960s. While President Joko Widodo has sought to improve outcomes for the region, observers say long-standing racism against Papuans risks undermining his plans.

22/08/2019

Mob attacks on Papuans in Indonesia on the rise - researcher

An Indonesian human rights researcher says militia-style attacks on West Papuans are on the rise in the country.

22/08/2019

Poomjit

Indonesia blocks in as protest rages

Veronica Koman, a human rights lawyer who focuses on issues, told Al Jazeera that her team is lodging a complaint to the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom Expression, to address the internet blockade.

The ongoing protests in West Papua region first erupted last week after Papuan students in Surabaya, East Java, reportedly faced mistreatment by police and were subjected to racial abuse.

16/08/2019

The truth about tear gas: how Hong Kong police violated guidelines

Banned worldwide in 1925, tear gas underwent an image overhaul before being embraced as an alternative to bullets. The canisters littering Hong Kong streets have been deployed indoors and in poorly ventilated areas, against suppliers’ guidance.

Banned worldwide in 1925, tear gas underwent an image overhaul before being embraced as an alternative to bullets. Post Magazine investigates the origins of the canisters littering Hong Kong streets and how their deployment has violated all guidelines for the ‘non-lethal weapon’.

15/08/2019

Armed police patrol Zimbabwe's capital ready to stifle protests

Hundreds of police armed with batons, water cannon and automatic weapons have been deployed in Zimbabwe as tensions rise before planned opposition protests on Friday.

Demonstrators warned ‘you will rot in jail’ in run-up to planned rally in Harare

15/08/2019

Nepal’s only folk musical instrument museum is struggling to save the rare instruments · Global Voices

Nepal’s only folk musical instrument museum is struggling to save the rare instruments

Nepal's only museum on musical instruments is facing eviction amidst lack of support from researchers and general visitors. Global Voices talks to Ram Prasad Kadel, the founder, and curator.

15/08/2019

Geometric Portraits by Silvia Idili Overlay Clusters of Origami-Like Objects on Subjects' Eyes, Noses, and Mouths

Geometric Portraits by Silvia Idili Overlay Clusters of Origami-Like Objects on Subjects’ Eyes, Noses, and Mouths

Milan-based painter Silvia Idili paints portraits of men and women that are partially obscured by folded geometric objects, incomplete masks that draw the audience deeper into the subjects' gaze. Idili explains to JULIET that these origami-like additions featured in The Visionaries "are the symbol o

15/08/2019

Senegalese sculptor turns discarded bikes into pieces of art

Senegalese sculptor turns discarded bikes into pieces of art

Meissa Fall from Saint Louis, Senegal, recycles abandoned bicycles, using every part to create sculptures effectively extending their usefulness into perpetuity.

14/08/2019

Thailand court acquits 24 Red Shirt leaders over 2010 protests

A court in Thailand has dismissed terrorism charges against 24 leaders of an extended street protest in 2010 that saw key areas of central Bangkok closed off and engulfed in violence.

Criminal court said 2010 protest, where 91 people were killed, was 'political fight, not terrorism'.

12/08/2019

Withheld in Turkey: how the government exploits removal requests to silence critical and independent voices · Global Voices

Withheld in Turkey: how the government exploits removal requests to silence critical and independent voices

For years, Turkey has been exploiting tools offered by social media platforms to restrict illegal content in a particular jurisdiction, to silence critical voices.

12/08/2019

Exiled Thai activists fear for their lives in Southeast Asia | DW | 12.08.2019

After years of exile in Laos for violating lese-majeste laws, the Thai protest band Faiyen arrived in France, seeking asylum and singing songs forbidden at home. Their escape comes as more activists are disappearing.

12/08/2019

Hong Kong police should exercise restraint to avoid escalating violence

“Hong Kong police have once again used tear gas and rubber bullets in a way that have fallen short of international standards. Firing at retreating protesters in confined areas where they had little time to leave goes against the purported objective of dispersing a crowd.”

Hong Kong police have once again used tear gas and rubber bullets in a way that have fallen short of international standards.

12/08/2019

Revitalizing Indigenous Languages Is Critical | Inter Press Service

"You can’t preserve or protect or revitalize indigenous languages in a vacuum- they’re related to all of the other rights of indigenous peoples, principally the right to self-determination."

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 12 2019 (IPS) - Being fluent in a world language is a desirable skill in modern day society. However, some languages are suffering and in danger of extinction — namely those of the indigenous peoples.

12/08/2019

Free Papua

Indonesian govt neglecting Papuans displaced by conflict: researcher.

After eight months of the armed conflict between Indonesian security forces and West Papuan pro-independence fighters in Papua's central highlands, there's no end in sight to the struggles of the indigenous communities displaced by the fighting.

07/08/2019

The dark history of "gasoline baths" at the border

In 1917, American health officials launched a campaign to use noxious, often toxic chemicals to delouse immigrants seeking to enter at the US-Mexico border. The same practice had caused a fire in an El Paso jail the year before and killed 27 people.

An alarming US border policy forced fumigations on migrants at the US-Mexico border. Become a Video Lab member! http://bit.ly/video-lab In 1917, American hea...

07/08/2019

Swedish museum to return exhumed skulls of 25 Sami people

The skulls of 25 Sami people are to be reburied in the northern Swedish graveyard from which they were exhumed in the 1950s, in a ceremony acknowledging historic injustices suffered by the country’s indigenous community

Eleven institutions still have remains of indigenous people, taken for controversial research

07/08/2019

Undying Guardians of the North

- Undying Guardians of the North

Part lion, part dragon. These ancient, mythical guardians protect a temple, Wat Mahawan, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Photographs by Zashnain Zainal

07/08/2019

Free Papua

“Pacific islands stand ground on West Papua push”

In a battle of wills in the region, Australia and Indonesia now find the island nations have a measure of leverage.

06/08/2019

European Union seems to have forgiven Thai military ruler

European Union seems to have forgiven Thai military ruler

However one wants to describe Thailand’s general election in March (the terms “bizarre” and “shambles” come to mind), “democratic” isn’t an adjective close at hand. Attempts by the largest politica…

05/08/2019

‘Put a stop to logging once and for all’

On World Indigenous Day, the Orang Asli in Malaysia want a permanent stop to logging activities on their customary land rather than a temporary halt.

KUALA LUMPUR: On World Indigenous Day, the Orang Asli in Malaysia want a permanent stop to logging activities on their customary land rather than a temporary halt.

05/08/2019

Free Papua

Since December, reports from the West Papua Liberation Army and aid groups indicate thousands have fled the conflict centred around Nduga regency.

Last week, the aid group Solidarity Team for Nduga said at least 182 people from the regency have died of famine and disease in displacement camps.

04/08/2019

Malaysia’s Forgotten Rohingya Refugees

TRNN's Jaisal Noor talks to refugees from Myanmar, who are now living in Malaysia, for whom existence is resistance

TRNN's Jaisal Noor talks to Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, who are now living in Malaysia, for whom existence is resistance

02/08/2019

Explosions in Thai capital Bangkok

Explosions in Thai capital Bangkok

At around 8.10am on Friday there was an explosion in or near a white care in a parking lot in front of the Mahanakorn Building, Bangkok’s tallest structure, near Chong Non Si BTS station. At around…