Yearly Archives: 2025

Israel's "apartheid wall" looms high above Aida refugee camp, up to nine metres tall in some places

Returning to Aotearoa after half a year in the occupied West Bank, Cole Martin says a peace deal that fails to address the root...
Teachers from Otahuhu Primary School among the thousands at today's "mega strike" rally

RNZ News Thousands have marched through major city streets and rallied in small towns across Aotearoa New Zealand as part of today’s “mega strike” of...
Protesters in New Zealand's "mega strike" today

RNZ News It is being billed as quite possibly New Zealand's biggest labour action in more than 40 years. It is the latest in a growing...
Four members of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) were reportedly killed in drone bombings

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) claims more than a dozen civilians have been killed in the...
Former Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama

RNZ Pacific Former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has been given a 12-month suspended prison sentence by the Fiji High Court in Suva, local news...
"Friends and colleagues, with few exceptions, are in exile, dead or, in most cases, have disappeared"

This lecture "Requiem for Gaza" was delivered to a sold out audience at the University of South Australia in Adelaide after journalist Chris Hedges'...
Siege busting

Kia Ora Gaza Fifteen years ago today a contingent of six New Zealanders drove three aid-packed ambulances into Gaza as part of the epic international...
Opposition Labour's Peeni Henare

By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter New Zealand's opposition parties have promised to repeal the coalition government's changes to the Marine and Coastal Area...
Cook Island activists peacefully confront the Nautilus

Greenpeace Cook Islanders holding a banner reading "Don’t Mine the Moana" have confronted an exploration vessel as it returned to Rarotonga port today, protesting the...
Fijian Deputy Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica

RNZ Pacific Fiji Deputy Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica has stepped down from his position on the eve of his court appearance for corruption-related charges. Kamikamica has...
Political prisoner Marwan Barghouti

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Israel and the West pretend they want a real peace in Israel-Palestine yet the Israelis have beaten unconscious the man most...
A member of the Police Response Team in Solomon Islands

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The Solomon Islands government is looking into establishing a defence force which would make it the fourth Pacific nation...
Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel with Prime Minister James Marape

Asia Pacific Report Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed "deep gratitude" for Papua New Guinea's support to his country over many years and during...
FLNKS president Christian Téin

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A Paris appeal court has confirmed that Kanak pro-independence leader Christian Téin is now cleared to...
NZ Defence Minister Judith Collins

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand's major Palestine advocacy and protest group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned Defence Minister Judith Collins for "dog-whistling to her...
Fiji Deputy Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica

RNZ Pacific A Fiji deputy prime minister has been charged by the country's anti-corruption office with perjury and providing false information in his capacity as...
RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui

By Teuila Fuatai, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves host The future of the Manawanui wreckage and potential compensation payments remain...
"War criminal" . . . a poster condemning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Asia Pacific Report The International Criminal Court has rejected Israel’s bid to appeal against arrest warrants for its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence...
Protesters in Ōtautahi Christchurch calling for sanctions against Israel's crimes in Gaza

Asia Pacific Report A national advocacy and protest group has demanded that Foreign Minister Winston Peters condemn Israeli torture of Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti and...
From sound torture to amputations, Palestinians released under the ceasefire describe a brutal system of repression

SPECIAL REPORT: By Romana Rubeo Hundreds of Palestinians released from Israeli prisons in recent days have described scenes of systematic torture, starvation, and humiliation. Their accounts,...
RNZ will continue to lease back 12 ha of the regained Whitireia whenua

By Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira, RNZ Māori news journalist Ngāti Toa Rangatira have gathered near the peak of their sacred maunga, Whitireia, to celebrate its historic return...
New French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A controversial piece of legislation to postpone the date for New Caledonia's crucial provincial elections passed...