Yearly Archives: 2025

RNZ Pacific Pacific civil society groups say 2025 has been a big year for the ocean. Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) representative...

Asia Pacific Report In an open letter released at the Belém Climate Summit, special envoys for strategic regions have expressed their support for the COP30...

Asia Pacific Report A Pacific people's mission to Kanaky New Caledonia was repeatedly confronted with a "profound sense of distrust" in the French state's role...

As the homes of Gaza’s families lie in ruins, its farmlands and water supply now also pose lethal risks in  environmental and health catastrophe. SPECIAL...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...