Monthly Archives: February 2026

Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in central Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau today were highly critical of the erosion of New Zealand’s once proud...

OBITUARY: By Joel Paredes Having known the Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut, who died yesterday aged 69, for nearly half a century, I feel that looking...

Asia Pacific Report "We warned you," says Iran’s national security commission head after Israel-US missiles attacks on the capital Tehran and other cities. Al Jazeera reports...

INTERVIEW: By Eugene Doyle This is a moment of great peril for the small Caribbean nation of Cuba. Nothing less than its sovereignty is on...

Novara Media In a spectacular triumph, Britain's Green Party has won the Gorton and Denton byelection in Greater Manchester. Local plumber Hannah Spencer has now become...

Amnesty International Amnesty International has condemned Israeli authorities over unleashing a series of unlawful measures deliberately designed to dispossess Palestinians in the occupied West Bank...

Did ex-president Rodrigo Duterte’s actions merit an ICC trial? Here is how the prosecution, the victims’ representatives, and the defence are presenting their cases...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A number of remand prisoners at Papua New Guinea's Bomana Prison have been injured in a confrontation with...

By Christine Rovoi of PMN News The arrest and charging of British-Fijian publisher Charlie Charters has pushed Fiji’s anti-corruption watchdog into fresh controversy. Charters' arrest by...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French Senators have endorsed a Constitutional amendment text regarding New Caledonia's future political status. Two-hundred and fifteen...

The Palestine Chronicle New Zealand activist Roger Fowler, a longtime Gaza solidarity organiser and Palestine Chronicle contributor, who died last Saturday, leaves a legacy of...

Pacific Media Watch A world premiere of a new documentary revealing the devastation of rainforest in the southeastern part of West Papua is one of...

RNZ Pacific Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says his government will not interfere with the work of the country's anti-corruption body following the latest turn...

Polynesian Panther Party Legacy Trust The Polynesian Panthers met Roger Fowler in the early 1970s when Ponsonby was home to the largest urban Pacific population...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle If Israel and the US attack Iran, the cosy worlds of Europe, Australia and New Zealand could be swept up in...

RNZ Pacific The arrest and detention of a dual Fijian and British national by Fiji's anti-corruption agency over the weekend has sparked concerns about freedom...

OBITUARY: By David Robie Roger Norman Fowler: 12 September 1948 – 21 February 2026 Roger Fowler, an activist legend of social justice solidarity movements from Bastion...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist Last week, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said Aotearoa's immigration settings were "no way to...

Asia Pacific Report Two Extinction Rebellion activists joined the speakers today at an Auckland protest over Israel’s genocide and ecocide in Gaza and occupied Palestine,...

ANAYSIS: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta The global human rights landscape has witnessed a significant diplomatic milestone. Indonesia, for the first time since the body's establishment...

RNZ Pacific Palau's Supreme Court has denied an application by the Senate for a stay order on the government's plan to take third country nationals...

COMMENTARY: By Moana Maniapoto Known globally as one of America's most prominent and inspiring civil rights leaders, Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr twice ran for US...