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16 October 2020

Toktok 40/ Spring 2020

Courageous women featured in PJR's Melanesian media freedom edition
ISBN
1175-0472
Publication month
October
Edition
No 40
Paper date
PMC TOKTOK No 40 cover

COURAGEOUS WOMEN FEATURED IN PJR'S MELANESIAN MEDIA FREEDOM EDITION

AN EVOCATIVE “Frontline” article about courageous women activists at the heart of a communication and media struggle for justice for West Papua features among the lead articles of the latest Pacific Journalism Review – the largest edition ever produced in spide of the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.

The article, by journalist and advocate Belinda Lopez, about the #illridewithyou campaign in West Papua features crusading lawyer Veronica Koman, activist Zely Ariane and others.

An editorial, PJR says hostile media environments in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and West Papua pose growing challenges to the Melanesian region’s democracies

Also featured:
+ Double page spread of coronavirus pandemic images in Aotearoa and Asia-Pacific
+ Pacific Media Watch in new climate crisis project with Internews
+ Rainbow Warrior bombing relived during lockdown
 

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