Monthly Archives: January 2024

By RNZ Pacific's Christina Persico Transparency International says the latest Corruption Perception Index shows another year of "little to no meaningful progress" towards curbing corruption in...

RNZ News New Zealand would likely continue funding the United Nations agency delivering aid in Palestine if concerns about its staff were dealt with, the...

Asia Pacific Report Several democratic, progressive and socialist organisations in Indonesia and in the Melanesian region of West Papua have come together in solidarity with...

RNZ News As New Zealand's former climate change minister James Shaw prepares to step down from the Green Party's co-leadership role, the space has opened...

Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, who led the UN Development Programme which oversees UNRWA, told RNZ Morning Report today it...

Asia Pacific Report About 200 protesters marched through the heart of Auckland's tourist suburb of Devonport today to the Royal New Zealand Navy base, accusing...

RNZ News A New Zealander working for the UN refugee agency for Palestinians says having countries pull funding is devastating. Speaking from Geneva, Hector Sharp told...

By Kalinga Seneviratne The University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Tuvalu Campus, located in the capital Funafuti, is perhaps the smallest university in the world,...

Asia Pacific Report Agnes Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International, has called the funding cuts to the UN's Palestinian humanitarian relief agency a “heartless...

Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has joined a chorus of global development and political figures defending the United Nations "lifeline"...

RNZ Pacific Eight of Tuvalu's 16-member Parliament are newcomers following the 2024 general election which saw former Prime Minister Kausea Natano ousted. The country went to...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific French Pacific desk correspondent French President Emmanuel Macron has defended his Indo-Pacific vision during the traditional New Year's good wishes...

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The International Court of Justice rejected Israel’s request to dismiss the genocide case brought against it by South Africa yesterday, ruling...

ANALYSIS: By Trita Parsi The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled against Israel and determined that South Africa successfully argued that Israel’s conduct plausibly...

Asia Pacific Report Although the International Court of Justice (ICJ) did not directly issue an order for a ceasefire in Gaza, says a leading Israeli...

Asia Pacific Report The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to take steps to prevent acts of genocide in South Africa's case over...

ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University The ACT Party’s election promise of a referendum for Aotearoa New Zealand to redefine and enshrine the “principles”...

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's Police Commissioner David Manning has been reinstated after being stood down following riots and looting on January 10. That rioting --...

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Academic Andrew Anton Mako says the Papua New Guinea's systemic dysfunction was plain to see in the rioting...

RNZ News New Zealand's defence minister has defended a decision to send six NZ Defence Force staff to the Middle East to help "take out"...

Asia Pacific Report A leading West Papuan advocate has welcomed this week's launch of the Brussels Declaration in the European Parliament, calling on MPs to...

ANALYSIS: By Tess Newton Cain As the new year gets underway, now is the time to look ahead to what will be significant in the...