Monthly Archives: November 2024

By Sera Sefeti in Baku, Azerbaijan As the curtain fell at the UN climate summit in Baku last Sunday, frustration and disappointment engulfed Pacific delegations...

Asia Pacific Report Palestinian diaspora poets, singers and musicians gathered today with solidarity partners from Aotearoa New Zealand, African nations -- including South Africa --...

Pacific Media Watch A community broadcaster in Aotearoa New Zealand has appealed for an end to the "sadistic cruelty" and the "out in the open...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Figures for violence against women in New Caledonia have increased due to the post-riots crisis, according...

Despite Australia's draconian anti-protest laws, the world’s biggest coal port was closed for four hours at the weekend with 170 protesters being charged --...

By Nacanieli Tuilevuka in Suva Some police officers are unable to effectively investigate cases of gender-based violence, claims Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre coordinator Shamima Ali. Ali...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific Desk New Caledonia’s Great Chief William Boarat has been found dead and police have arrested a 24-year-old...

COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis "Flashpoint" in a foreign news story usually brings to mind the Middle East or the border between North and South Korea....

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News political reporter New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters has used a speech in Paris to urge France to keep an...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk The election of Emmanuel Tjibaou as the new president of New Caledonia's main pro-independence party, the...

By Mosese Raqio in Suva Two out of three women in every church in Fiji experience physical or sexual violence in their lifetime -- and...

Asia Pacific Report An aid agency is warning that a lack of aid reaching Gaza is forcing Palestinians to search through destroyed buildings for basic...

RNZ Pacific The United Nations climate change summit COP29 has "once again ignored" the Pacific Islands, a group of regional climate advocacy organisations say. The Pacific...

By Kate Green , RNZ News reporter A new carbon credit trading deal reached in the final hours of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, has been...

RNZ News For almost six decades photographer John Miller (Ngāpuhi) has been a protest photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand. From his first photographs of an anti-Vietnam...

Asia Pacific Report At least six Israeli soldiers have taken their own lives in recent months, the major Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth has revealed, citing...

RNZ Pacific Fiji's Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Pio Tikoduadua has ordered an inquiry into the "possible unauthorised issuance of passports" by immigration staff and...

Asia Pacific Report A national New Zealand solidarity movement for Palestine has welcomed the International Criminal Court's move to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime...

Asia Pacific Report Independent US Senator Bernie Sanders says he supports the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former Defence...

Democracy Now! NERMEEN SHAIKH: In The Hague, the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister...

The United States has vetoed a UN Security Council ceasefire resolution -- for the fourth time -- in Israel’s war on Gaza, while Hezbollah...

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand’s leading daily newspaper has joined the debate about the haka that stunned Parliament and the nation last week, defending the...