Monthly Archives: February 2026

Asia Pacific Report A two-day West Papua Solidarity Forum and mini film festival is being held in Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau next month featuring West Papuan...

By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor A court ruling in favour of Fiji's dismissed anti-corruption chief has "embarrassed" Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, a New Zealand-based...

Asia Pacific Report Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi, a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawai'ian) initiative for self-determination and self-governance formed in 1987, has sent a 17-member Indigenous delegation...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor The New Zealand government says it hopes an electrification aid project that was halted in Papua New Guinea...

By Mohamed Hassan The Israel-Palestine director of Human Rights Watch (HRW) has resigned in protest, saying the organisation’s new chief has blocked a report accusing...

COMMENTARY: By Vincent Wijeysingha Will maximising investment returns override ethics? That is the question the tertiary sector posed to UniSaver, the academic equivalent of KiwiSaver,...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show looking at the arrests of two American journalists for covering a protest at the Cities Church ...

ANALYSIS: By Andrew Brown Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog, is due to arrive in Australia next Sunday. Why is a foreign Head of State asked to...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor A New Zealand aid project in Papua New Guinea has been halted due to security concerns, and appears...

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's government has defended the use of force to evict residents of an informal settlement in the capital Port Moresby. Police used...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto On June 3 last year, the Christchurch Press reported on an alleged assault in Christchurch on an IDF soldier on holiday...

By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor Political leaders in a Papua New Guinea province plagued by gun violence are making a collective stand to...

COMMENTARY: By John Menadue Western leaders defend the rules-based international order when it suits them, but remain largely silent as those same rules are breached...