Yearly Archives: 2026

"Both of these warmongering nations [US and Israel] have displayed a total lack of integrity and credibility through their disingenuous words and actions over many decades."

COMMENTARY: By Tim O'Shea I don't blame Iran for going cold on another sham negotiation session with the US. After all, why would they take the...
Amnesty International’s report comes as multiple conflicts rage across the world

By Anealla Safdar in London The heads of Israel, Russia and the United States are leading the destruction of global human rights, says Amnesty International,...
Komnas HAM also warns about the risk of mass displacement of Papuan villagers

RNZ Pacific Indonesia's National Commission on Human Rights says it is investigating deaths of a dozen West Papuans in a military operation. The commission, known as...
Associate law professor Maryam Jamshidi

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, I’m Amy Goodman. As we continue to look at the US and Israeli war on Iran, we’re joined...
The Commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces, Major-General Jone Kalouniwai,

By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior journalist The Fiji Police Force has launched a murder investigation following the death of wellknown drug pusher Jone Vakarisi,...
Fiji’s Ambassador to Israel, Jesoni Vitusagavulu

By Anish Chand in Suva Fiji’s Ambassador to Israel, Jesoni Vitusagavulu, has defended his country’s voting record at the United Nations, saying it is guided...
Fiji drug peddler Jone Vakarisi at a court appearance in March 2026

RNZ Pacific The Fiji military has found itself at the centre of a national firestorm following the death of a wellknown drug peddler, Jone Vakarisi,...
Dr Rami Khouri

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: To look more at the latest developments in Lebanon and the Middle East region, we’re joined by Dr Rami Khouri, a...
An "IDF = Murder Machine" banner at the "Banners for Humanity" exhibition

Asia Pacific Report A South African-born New Zealand critic of Israeli apartheid and ethnic cleansing today delivered strong praise for his home country's genocide case...
Uncertainty over the Strait of Hormuz

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Many American apologists cannot see the forest for the trees and think that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz represents...
Alternative Jewish Voices radio at Wellington Access Radio 106.1FM

Pacific Media Watch Alternative Jewish Voices | Sh’ma Koleinu -- a collective of anti-Zionist Jews from the Far North to Dunedin -- launched its new...
Invoking the Pacific's Biketawa Declaration

RNZ Pacific The Pacific Islands Forum troika Leaders have agreed to activate the Biketawa Declaration, placing the region on a co-ordinated high alert framework to...
"Israel’s supporters in the West have launched the biggest assault on free speech since the height of McCarthyism"

COMMENTARY: By Owen Jones Britain's Daily Telegraph is being acquired by a German-based media giant -- and now its journalists are formally expected to support...
A young Gazan journalist describes her setting up for story telling about Al Shifa Hospital

Pacific Media Watch At least 262 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war against the besieged enclave, marking one...

RNZ Pacific The Fiji Police Force has confirmed that a man who was taken in for questioning by the Republic of Fiji Military Forces in...
The ruling is “a big win for everyone who cares about the right to protest”

By Stephanie Tran of Michael West Media The Supreme Court of New South Wales has struck down the state’s draconian anti-protest laws, ruling they impose...
A rally against the war on Iran in Auckland, New Zealand, last weekend

ANALYSIS: By Prabhat Patnaik It is the people of the Global South, not governments, who must resist this subversion of the concepts of the "nation'...
The Marshalls Energy Company and its power plant has faced a near doubling of its diesel fuel costs since the US/Israel attacked Iran on February 28

By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent Most government offices in the Marshall Islands began enforcing a new policy this week of closing...
US President Donald Trump (left) and Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei

COMMENTARY: By Prince Taofeek Ajibade US President Donald Trump probably thinks he can starve a country that feeds itself. Washington is selling the naval blockade of...
YouTube has banned the channel that’s been creating viral AI Lego music videos criticising the US war on Iran

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone I don’t mind admitting that I hope the US and Israel suffer a crushing, devastating defeat in Iran. I hope this war...
The High Court ruled the fund's policy documents and procedures were "unreasonable and unlawful"

By Keiller MacDuff, RNZ News senior reporter The managers of the New Zealand's $86 billion Super Fund failed to properly address human rights issues when...
The landslide occurred on Sunday in Gazelle district in Papua New Guinea's East New Britain province

RNZ Pacific Ten people have died in a landslide in Gazelle district in Papua New Guinea's East New Britain Province following continuous heavy rain, according...