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Asia Pacific Report A new human rights report has rated civic space in Indonesia under President Prabowo Subianto rated as "obstructed". Human rights groups have documented...

RNZ Pacific reporters The Pacific Elders' Voice has called for the Pacific Islands Forum to review and reverse its partnership agreement with Israel. The group of...

By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's West New Britain province Governor Sasindran Muthuvel says the public is deeply frustrated with repeated armed...

COMMENTARY: By Mohamad Kadan For the majority of Israelis, the general election today is a choice between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the forces that...

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand's oldest and largest Palestine solidarity movement today called on political parties to press for "immediate expulsion" of Israeli Ambassdor Alon...

By Kelvin Anthony of RNZ Pacific Israel's inclusion into the Pacific region's main political body has drawn sharply contrasting reactions across the region. While the official...

By Christina Persico of RNZ Pacific Early voting has opened for the general election in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand uses MMP, mixed member proportional representation....

COMMENTARY: By Senia Burr Mr Gavoka, with respect, you do not speak for the “entire Pacific Islands” when you say the Pacific identifies with Israel...

COMMENTARY: By Saige England I cast my vote. Did it today. And I resisted the temptation to dance around the voting floor yelling the rebel...

By Kelvin Anthony of RNZ Pacific Mahendra Chaudhry, Fiji's first and only prime minister of Indian descent, has warned that the island nation is "worse...

RNZ Pacific reporters Samoa's Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa (La'auli) Leuatea Schmidt paused talks on a refreshed treaty with New Zealand until after the New Zealand general...

ANALYSIS: By Mohan J. Dutta Count the hands the footage passed through. Whakaata Māori reported the video first. RNZ said it had independently obtained...

COMMENTARY: By Aisake Casimira The Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) has been and will always be for justice, peace and integrity of creation, going back...

Asia Pacific Report A Palestinian advocacy group has called on the New Zealand government to act against the "weaponisation" and "engineering" of starvation by Israel...

COMMENTARY: By Stefan Armbruster Israel voted against all UN resolutions concerning decolonisation of the six Pacific territories at the UN General Assembly’s Fourth Committee (Decolonisation...

By Patrick Decloitre of RNZ Pacific Pro-independence leaders in New Caledonia's Congress have boycotted the signing of a strategic partnership deal on critical raw materials...

RNZ Pacific reporters A Fiji deputy prime minister says the Pacific identifies with Israel in ways many would not understand. Viliame Gavoka, who is also the...

By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific West Papuan civil society organisations have called on Indonesia to allow access to their region for the United Nations...

COMMENTARY: By John Hobbs New Zealand is failing its responsibilities towards the Palestinian people; a people who are dying from the actions of Israel. Its responsibilities...

By Susana Suisuiki of RNZ Pacific An environmental group is challenging the United States' legal authority to sell seabed mining leases covering waters off the...

Asia Pacific Report A leading Palestine advocacy group in New Zealand has given the government a "please explain" message after news reports that the Pacific...

By Kaya Selby of RNZ Pacific New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has "serious questions to answer" over Israel becoming a partner of the region's...