Monthly Archives: April 2016

As tensions in Nauru continue to simmer, asylum seekers in Australia's other immigration centre on Manus Island have been told they would either be...

Almost two months following the most devastating cyclone to have ever hit Fiji, the country’s people and biodiversity are still struggling towards recovery, Anuja...

By Thompson Marango in Port Vila The Supreme Court decision to ban the 14 convicted former MPs from holding public offices in Vanuatu for 10...

Greenpeace New Zealand has called for the "linchpin" of New Zealand’s climate policy to be thrown out following a report released today that shows...

By Arnold Belau in Jayapura Indonesian security forces have arrested 15 West Papua National Committee (KNPB) activists and vandalised the KNPB secretariat in Kaimana district,...

The Dokhtar Forooshi song Sonita - "Brides for Sale". Stop press: A visa has been subsequently granted to the Iranian filmmker Amnesty International has criticised the...

Ice melt, sea level rise and superstorms ... Professor Hansen speaks on the science and implications. Video: Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions An “alarming” new...

At the helm of Greenpeace environmental campaign vessels for more than 30 years, Peter Willcox talks with Kendall Hutt about climate change and his...

Pacific Media Watch contributing editor TJ Aumua won the SPASIFIK Magazine Prize and Storyboard Award for diversity reporting at AUT's School of Communication Studies...

Video clip of the final "living document" declaration by Pacific journalists and media officers at the human rights forum in Nadi, Fiji, over the...

Anti-corruption police have arrested and charged a Papua New Guinea Supreme Court judge with judicial corruption, reports Loop PNG. Judge Bernard Sakora, 68, of the...

By Anita Roberts in Port Vila The Shefa Education Office will soon be rolling out its newly launched forestry programme to primary and secondary schools...

By Sally Pokiton in Kokopo The owner and managing director of Rabaul Shipping will stand trial at the Kokopo National Court this week -- four...

Panama Papers and New Zealand elite hypocrisy.

By Bryan Bruce I spoke at my first parliamentary Select Committee hearing in New Zealand this week. It was on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) and...

The Arctic 30's thank you message after their release in November 2013 - cited in Peter Willcox's new book out next week. Video: Greenpeace Review...

The Panama Papers have shone a most welcome  - and long overdue  light into the murky world of tax havens, offshore trusts and shell...

By TJ Aumua Six of the Auckland participants who attended the UN Commission of the Status of Women held in New York in March have...

The Asian Human Rights Commission has condemned the forced dispersal of peaceful Papuan protesters and their illegal arrest in Kampung Bhintuka-SP13 field in Mimika,...

By Fardah Pewarta in Jakarta Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan and his delegation's recent trip to Fiji and Papua...

WARNING: Shocking images. Citizen video footage of the Philippines security forces in their increasingly savage use of force against the protesting farmers. Video: Kilab...

April will mark the urgency of action needed to address the issue of climate change with a collaborative project between the Pacific Media Centre...