Monthly Archives: November 2025

A BDS - boycott, divestment and sanctions - placard

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand Pro-Palestine protesters gathered at West Auckland's Te Pai Park today, celebrating successes of the BDS movement against apartheid Israel while...
Palestinians clear rubble to search for survivors in a Gaza house

A Gaza resident tells his story of the struggle to survive in Israel's Gaza genocide today, "ceasefire" or not. SPECIAL REPORT: By Qasem Waleed El-Farra On...
Amnesty International secretary general Agnès Callamard

RNZ News The current New Zealand government has a "Trumpian accent" that should be a red flag for the people, one of the world's leading...
PNG's conjoined twins

By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The parents of conjoined twins in Papua New Guinea have made a desperate global appeal to try to...
For Pacific’s women, the toll of runaway temperature increase will be heavy

Keeping a line of sight to the challenges of both COP30 in Brazil next week and also the subsequent Pacific's COP31. A Pacific perspective. COMMENTARY:...
A pro-Palestinian protester outside the public broadcaster TVNZ in an Auckland demonstration

SPECIAL REPORT: By Robert Inlakesh Israelis are determined to erase the evidence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, through the use of paid and instructed propagandists...
The winds of political change are blowing in a populist-left direction globally

COMMENTARY: By Bryce Edwards Yesterday’s victory of “democratic socialist” Zohran Mamdani in the race for the New York mayoralty is fuelling debate among progressives around...
French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Newly appointed French Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou has now rescheduled her first visit to New...
This enmity towards journalism, has been a hallmark of the Trump presidency

COMMENTARY: By Kasun Ubayasiri We are gathered here to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists. The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance...
UniSaver New Zealand

Asia Pacific Report More than 700 academics have this week sent an open letter demanding the university retirement savings scheme UniSaver immediately divest from companies...
The traditional NZ Census will be replaced with a combination of government data and smaller annual surveys

By 'Alakihihifo Vailala, PMN News The Ministry for Pacific Peoples (MPP) repeatedly warned its minister that replacing the traditional population-wide survey with administrative data would...
Israeli Channel 12 released a video showing soldiers allegedly abusing a Palestinian prisoner

Asia Pacific Report The arrest of the former top lawyer in the Israeli military for the leak of a video showing Israeli soldiers assaulting a...
The average household in PNG was five people, according to the 2024 Census final figures

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's population has passed the 10 million mark, according to the final figures from the 2024 Population Census released by the...
"Political trust has collapsed. Communities no longer view the decolonisation process as impartial"

Asia Pacific Report A People's Mission to Kanaky New Caledonia says the French Pacific territory remains in a fragile political and social transition nearly three...
No more kings?

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle “The Past is not dead; it is not even past.” William Faulkner was right: past events continue to inform and shape our...
Cook Islands activists confront the EV Nautilus on its return to Rarotonga

By Caleb Fotheringham and Tiana Haxton, RNZ Pacific journalists Not enough is yet known about the seafloor to decide if deep sea mining can start...
Air New Zealand back flying to New Caledonia

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's tourism industry is hopeful for a rebound as Air New Zealand resumed its flights...
The court ordered the Israeli government to present a clear position on its blockade

Pacific Media Watch The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it "regrets" the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to grant the Tel...
An UNRWA school in Gaza destroyed by Israeli bombing

ANALYSIS: By Sultan Barakat and Alison Phipps It has been more than two weeks since world leaders gathered in Sharm el-Sheikh and declared, once again,...
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel (left) with Destiny Church's Hannah Tamaki in Auckland

COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog Why is Aotearoa New Zealand aiding Israel in any way shape or form with a liaison...
Palestinian supporters protest against the ongoing Gaza genocide by Israel in spite of the "ceasefire"

Asia Pacific Report Today marks 108 years since the 1917 Balfour Declaration and New Zealand pro-Palestinian protest groups have condemned this infamous date in rallies...
Street art depicting a girl holding a paper boat, with half of her dress showing buildings

By Heather Devere of Asia Pacific Media Network November 5 marks the day that has been set aside to acknowledge Parihaka and the courageous and...