Yearly Archives: 2025

"Trump’s ceasefire is a political theatre of control"

ANALYSIS: By Elijah J Magnier Benjamin Netanyahu insisted, until just hours before Donald Trump’s arrival, that the war in Gaza would not stop. Then, standing...
Kiwirok villagers show some of the areas that have been bombed in the attack on their village

Asia Pacific Report Indonesian military forces have again bombed Kiwirok, the site of a massacre in 2021 that killed more than 300 West Papuan civilians,...
His widow Miriam continued her husband’s legacy

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone It’s bizarre how little mainstream attention is given to the fact that the President of the United States has repeatedly confessed...
Climate adaptation

RNZ Pacific Pacific leaders believe climate experts are missing an opportunity to incorporate indigenous knowledge into adaptation measures. The call has been made as hundreds of...
"The Palestinian genocide victims were of scant concern at the Knesset spectacle"

COMMENTARY: By Belén Fernández United States President Donald Trump had the time of his life on Monday at the Israeli Knesset, where he was welcomed...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF), which has filed five complaints with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Israeli crimes against journalists, has called for justice

Pacific Media Watch Pacific Media Watch supports the call by the Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) for justice for the victims...
France's new Minister for Overseas Naïma Moutchou

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk As part of a never-ending rollercoaster of instability in French politics, the latest appointment of a...
"My greatest worry is that [Netanyahu] does believe that his only chance of being reelected is still to have a war going on"

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. As we’ve reported, the Gaza ceasefire deal is in effect....
Matangi Tonga publisher Pesi Siale Fonua

RNZ Pacific Pesi Siale Fonua, a veteran Pacific journalist and the publisher-editor of Tonga's leading news website Matangi Tonga Online, has died at the age...
Protesting Arab=Israeli lawmaker Ayman Odeh

Asia Pacific Report Two leftwing opposition members of the Knesset protested in the middle of US President Donald Trump's historic and rambling speech praising the...
Palestinian children celebrate news of the Gaza ceasefire

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: Israel’s government has approved the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, that includes a pause in Israeli attacks and the...
What would Alfred Nobel have said?

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Within hours of being named the Nobel Peace laureate for 2025, María Corina Machado called on President Trump to step up...
Lebanese-Australian journalist Antoinette Lattouf speaks

Pacific Media Watch The global peak journalism body has condemned the targeting, harassment, and censorship by lobby groups of Australian journalists for reporting critically on...
Palestinians, forcibly displaced to the southern part of Gaza by Israel, make their way north

COMMENTARY: By Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh A temporary ceasefire and release of some Palestinians in a prisoner exchange is not a "peace agreement" and it is...
Freedom Flotilla hunger strikers Huwaida Arraf (from left -- Palestinian/American), Omer Sharir (Israeli) and Zohar Chamberlain Regev (Israeli/German)

COMMENTARY: By Sara Awad On October 10, a ceasefire in Gaza was officially announced. International news media were quick to focus on what they now...
While Māori are guaranteed representation through the Māori electoral roll at the national level . . .

COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto of G News Of 42 referendums, 17 voted to retain Māori Wards in Aotearoa New Zealand's local elections yesterday, which suggests...
Fauono Ken Laban

By Mary Afemata, of Local Democracy Reporting Fauono Ken Laban has been elected Mayor of Lower Hutt, making history as Aotearoa New Zealand's first Pasifika...
MediaQuest corporate communications consultant Ramon Isberto

By Anthea Grape in Manila Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is vital to nation-building. It empowers Filipinos to make informed decisions by fostering critical thinking,...
A deradicalisation that would make it preposterous for Shabana Mahmood, Britain’s Home Secretary, to call demonstrations against a two-year genocide “fundamentally un-British”

This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel’s demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as they crack down on humanitarian activism....
Back in Aotearoa at Auckland International Airport today after the Israeli military abducted Global Sumud Flotilla participants on international waters heading for Gaza last month

RNZ News Three New Zealanders, who were detained in Israel, after taking part in an international flotilla heading to Gaza, claim they were treated like...
South Tarawa in Kiribati

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Amnesty International is asking the New Zealand government to create a new humanitarian visa for Pacific people impacted by...
Columnist Matthew Hooton's article justifying Foreign Minister Winston Peters' stance on Palestine

COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto of G News This morning New Zealand Herald columnist and political commentator Matthew Hooton was paid to write an article justifying...