Yearly Archives: 2025
Is the international community finally speaking up about Israel’s Gaza genocide?
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...
Palestine solidarity rally greeted by Rainbow Warrior Gaza protest
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...
ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base
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...
Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative
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...
Palestine Action – terrorists or the real heroes of our time?
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...
Police protection for New Caledonian politicians following death threats
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...
12 countries agree to confront Israel collectively over Gaza after Bogotá 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 among activists featured in Pacific ‘nuclear free heroes’ video
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...
David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront nuclear powers
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...
First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’
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...
Bougainville election: More than 400 candidates vie for parliament
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 expert advocates peacekeeper path to break Israel’s siege on 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...
Fiji govt offers NZ$1.5m settlement to former anti-corruption head for ruined career
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...
Australian bid to criminalise Palestine support creates ‘hierarchy of racism’, says PSNA
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...
Luxon and Peters to miss Cook Islands’ 60th Constitution Day celebrations
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...
Israeli settlers beat to death 2 Palestinians in latest lynchings
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...
New Caledonia’s political parties commit to ‘historic’ statehood deal
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...
Twyford praises NFIP lead, calls for inspired peace and regionalism
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...
NFIP activists, advocates to open nuclear-free Pacific exhibition
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 condemns ‘callous’ health legacy of French, US nuclear bomb tests in Pacific
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...
‘Storm clouds are gathering’: 40 years on from the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
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...
Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on
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...