Yearly Archives: 2025

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached catastrophic levels

Al Jazeera International public opinion continues to turn against Israel for its war on Gaza, with more governments slowly beginning to reflect those voices and...
A Rainbow Warrior shipboard protest over the Gaza genocide today

Asia Pacific Report Palestinian supporters and protesters against the 21 months of Israeli genocide in Gaza marched after a rally in downtown Auckland today across...
The first-ever US military flight carrying 18 Marshall Islanders deported from the United States by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrives at Majuro

By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent United States immigration and deportation enforcement continues to ramp up, impacting on Marshallese and Micronesians in...
"Western media institutions promote a colonial narrative that reproduces the discourse of Israeli superiority, using linguistic and legal mechanisms to justify genocide."

COMMENTARY: By Refaat Ibrahim "If words shape our consciousness, then the media holds the keys to minds." This sentence is not merely a metaphor, but a...
Stéphane Hessel was a leading member of the French Resistance

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Nobody has a bad word to say about the French Resistance in the Second World War, right?  Who would criticise a...
The indigenous Kanaky flag adopted in 1983 and usually flown alongside the French tricolour under the Nouméa Accord

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonian politicians who inked their commitment to a deal with France last weekend will be...
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese addresses The Hague Group Summit

ANALYSIS: By Mick Hall Collective measures to confront Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people have been agreed by 12 nations after an emergency summit of...
Susi Newborn, a Greenpeace founder, Rainbow Warrior crew stalwart, activist and author

Pacific Media Watch Greenpeace pioneer and activist Susi Newborn is among the "nuclear free heroes" featured in a video tribute premiered this week in an...
"Hot off the press" . . . David Robie talks Eyes of Fire just after receiving the first copy of his book marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior on 10 July 1985

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves presenter/producer, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor The New Zealand government needs to do more for its Pacific...
Zionist settllers attack Palestinian homes and cars at the village of Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank

Occupied West Bank-based New Zealand journalist Cole Martin asks who are the peacemakers? BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin As a Kiwi journalist living in the occupied...
Incumbent Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist More than 400 candidates have put their hands up to contest the Bougainville general election in September, hoping...
UN peacekeepers advocated by DAWN for Gaza

COMMENTARY: By Bruce King Almost two months ago, a UN special rapporteur, Dr Michael Fakhri, penned an opinion article in The Guardian newspaper warning that...
Sacked head of the Fiji anti-corruption agency FICAC

By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior reporter The Fiji government looks set to pay around NZ$1.5 million in damages to the disgraced former head of...
Protesters against Israel's genocide in Gaza and attacks on the occupied West Bank take to the streets in Devonport last weekend

Pacific Media Watch The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has called on the New Zealand government to not follow Australia’s policy moves which would effectively criminalise...
Cook Islands will mark 60 years of self-governance in free association with New Zealand on August 4

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist New Zealand will not send top government representation to the Cook Islands for its 60th Constitution Day celebrations in...
A funeral has been held in the occupied West Bank for both the young Palestinians killed by Israeli settlers, Sayfollah ‘Saif’ Mussalet, an American Palestinian from Tampa, Florida, and Muhammad Shalabi

BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied West Bank Two young Palestinians were beaten to death on their land by Israeli settlers in the occupied...
How Kanaky New Caledonia's public broadcaster NC La 1ère reported the news

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's pro-and-anti-independence parties have committed to an "historic" deal over the future political status of...
Labour's disarmament and associate foreign affairs spokesperson Phil Twyford speaking

Asia Pacific Report An opposition Labour Party MP today paid tribute to the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement, saying it should inspire Aotearoa...
"Legends of the Pacific: Stories of a Nuclear-Free Moana 1975-1995"

Asia Pacific Report Nuclear-free and independent Pacific advocates are treating Aucklanders to a lively week-long exhibition dedicated to the struggle for nuclear justice in the...
Author David Robie with his latest book, Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior.

Asia Pacific Report A journalist who was on the Rainbow Warrior voyage to Rongelap last night condemned France for its “callous” attack of an environmental...
The Rainbow Warrior III on the eve of the memorial service for Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira

From the prologue of the 40th anniversary edition of David Robie’s seminal book on the Rainbow Warrior’s last voyage, former New Zealand prime minister...
Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III today commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira on 10 July 1985

SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News Forty years ago today, French secret agents bombed the Greenpeace campaign flagship  Rainbow Warrior...