Yearly Archives: 2024

Palau's leader Surangel Whipps Jr (left) and US President-elect Donald Trump

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jr is inviting US President-elect Donald Trump to "visit the Pacific" to see firsthand...
Independent Australian journalist Antony Loewenstein

COMMENTARY: By Antony Loewenstein The incoming Trump administration will bring a dangerous brew of Christian nationalism and anti-Palestinian racism Things can always get worse. Much worse. The...
This screenshot from a video broadcast on Israeli channel Now 14 shows an officer and four soldiers of Israel’s Givati Brigade standing next to Palestinian detainees

Asia Pacific Report Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in...
The podcast takes the listener into a room in Seattle, Washington, in 1984, where Greenpeace International leader Steve Sawyer met for the first time with Jeton Anjain

REVIEW: By Giff Johnson in Majuro As a prelude to the 40th anniversary of the evacuation of Rongelap Islanders to Mejatto Island in Kwajalein in...
Nelson votes to sanction Israel

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand's Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) has congratulated the Nelson City Council on its vote today to boycott companies which trade...
Guam Governor Leon Guerrero welcomes Taiwan's President Lai to Guam

By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent Northern Marianas Governor Arnold Palacios and Senator Celina Babauta have travelled to Guam to...
The French political impasse

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk As French Prime Minister Michel Barnier's government has fallen to a motion of no confidence just...
Arab New Zealanders have been increasingly articulate in Aotearoa

ANALYSIS: By Rami G Khouri One of the major political developments in the United States that has got little attention in the wake of the...
Taking the world's biggest problem to the world’s highest court for global climate justice

ABC Pacific Australia's government is being condemned by climate action groups for discouraging the International Court of Justice (ICJ) from ruling in favour of a...
Vanuatu's Special Envoy for Climate Change and Environment Ralph Regenvanu with advocate Julian Aguon

RNZ Pacific Vanuatu's special envoy to climate change says their case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is based on the argument that those...
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters was expected to arrive in New Caledonia today for...
Greenpeace activists, along with representatives of Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui, disrupted the annual general meeting of Manuka Resources

Asia Pacific Report Norway is stopping the first licensing round for deep sea mining in Arctic waters -- and Greenpeace Aotearoa says this is putting...
Dark Times Academy's Mandy Henk . . . harmful Pacific disinformation

Pacific Media Watch An Aotearoa New Zealand-based community education provider is preparing a new course aimed to help media professionals in the Pacific region understand...
A "Wanted for mass child murder - bring them in" placard at a Palestine solidarity rally in Auckland

Asia Pacific Report Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has told a media conference Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be arrested if he entered New Zealand “We...
Fiji protesters supporting decolonisation of West Papua, Kanaky - and Palestine

Asia Pacific Report An exiled West Papuan leader has called for unity among his people in the face of a renewed "colonial grip" of Indonesia's...
Pacific Islander students have led the campaign for the ICJ to consider states' obligations to prevent climate change

SPECIAL REPORT: By Doug Dingwall of ABC Pacific A landmark case that began in a Pacific classroom and could change the course of future climate...
Kanaky New Caledonia's CCAT leader Christian Téin detained in France

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Pro-independence Kanak leader Christian Téin will remain in a mainland French jail for the time being,...
IDF "Lone Soldiers" arrive from North America

Despite it being illegal in Australia to recruit soldiers for foreign armies, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) recruiters are hard at work enticing young...
Former NZ Green Party MP Catherine Delahunty speaking for West Papua Action Aotearoa

Asia Pacific Report Twenty five Pacific civil society organisations and solidarity movements have called on Pacific leaders of their "longstanding responsibility" to West Papua, and...
Auli'i Cravalho is still great as Moana

REVIEW: By Sam Rillstone, RNZ News Disney has returned to Motunui with Moana 2, a sequel to the 2016 hit Moana. But have they been...
Tamariki raising the West Papuan independence flag Morning Star

On Papuan Independence Day, the focus is on discussing protests against Indonesia’s transmigration programme, environmental destruction, militarisation, and the struggle for self-determination. Te Ao...
Fiji protesters call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza

Asia Pacific Report A Fiji solidarity group for the Palestinians has accused the Rabuka-led coalition government of "complicity" in Israel's genocide and relentless war on...