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‘Collaboration’ key to creating respect for women and girls, says Marshall...
The second report in a five-part series focused on the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women taking place in the Marshall Islands this week.
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PM Luxon’s security cut short visit ahead of Palestine protest
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's security detail has cut a media briefing short over protesters in Auckland.
He was holding a press conference...
70 years on from tests, Marshallese women still fight for nuclear...
The first report in a five-part web series focused on the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women taking place in the Marshall Islands this...
UN shocked over beheadings, burnt village in brutal PNG violence
RNZ Pacific and ABC
Violent attacks on three remote villages in Papua New Guinea's north have reportedly killed 26 people, including 16 children, while several...
Retired PNG military chief furious over ‘witchhunt’ charge for Capital Markets...
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
A former Papua New Guinea army leader, Major-General Jerry Singirok, is furious after being arrested and charged under...
French President Macron yet to sign-off on Pacific leaders bid to...
RNZ Pacific
The French Ambassador to the Pacific says President Emmanuel Macron is yet to sign-off on a letter from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)...
In Australia, pro-Palestinian voices face a frenzy of Zionist McCarthyism
ANALYSIS: By Randa Abdel-Fattah
Since 7 October 2023, across every profession and social realm in Australia -- teachers, students, doctors, nurses, academics, public servants, lawyers,...
Eugene Doyle: It’s bigger than NATO and it’s heading our way
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Australia and New Zealand’s populations must now wake up to the fact that our countries have been drawn into what ForeignPolicy.com...
Thousands of Bougainville residents support lawsuit against mining giant
RNZ Pacific
About 4500 Bougainvillean residents now back a lawsuit against mining giant Rio Tinto.
This is an additional 1500 people from the autonomous Papua New...
Fiji, PNG fail to secure UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s...
By Stefan Armbruster, Harlyne Joku and Tria Dianti
No progress has been made in sending a UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces despite...
New Zealand urged to take bolder stand over New Caledonia’s third...
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand should join others in calling New Caledonia's third independence referendum invalid, one of the founders of the Kanaky Aotearoa Solidarity Network...
Helen Hill: for social justice and Timor-Leste’s independence
COMMENTARY: By Sandy Yule
When Melbourne-born Helen Hill, an outstanding social activist, scholar and academic, died on 7 May 2024 at the age of 79,...
Democracy Now!, Diana Buttu analyse ICJ ruling over illegal and ‘rapid...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, “War, Peace and the Presidency.” I’m Amy Goodman.
We end today’s show in The Hague, where the International...
Plea to ‘uncounted’ PNG residents to call in as census winds...
By Bramo Tingkeo in Port Moresby
Port Moresby residents who have missed out on the Papua New Guinea's national census counting have been urged to...
From Kanaky to Palestine, how Paris is weaponising deportations from Pacific
In the West Bank, one in three Palestinians has experienced one or more incarcerations during their life since 1967, or 35 percent of the...
Fiji’s Kiwi prosecutor’s suspension ‘not a matter for’ Foreign Minister Peters
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital/social lead
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has "hung . . . out to dry" Fiji's suspended New Zealand Director of...
PNG villagers attack priest, nurses and doctors while on Chimbu foot...
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea's Chuave District Development Authority is condemning an attack on a priest and his team in Chimbu province.
Father Ryszard Wajda (SVD),...
Breaking the silence – 83% of Fijian children suffer violence, reports...
By Sainimili Magimagi in Suva
Family members keep silent on the issue of violence in Fiji and individuals continue to be the victims, according to...
Tahiti’s ‘old lion’ Gaston Flosse, 93, steps down after 52 years...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Polynesia's veteran politician, 93-year-old Gaston Flosse, announced last week he is stepping down from his...
Latest Puncak Jaya massacre reveals West Papua ‘is a time bomb’,...
Asia Pacific Report
A brutal killing of three Papuan civilians in Puncak Jaya reveals that occupied West Papua is a ticking time bomb under Indonesian...
PIF hopes to send delegation to New Caledonia, says Forum chair
By Pita Ligaiula in Tokyo
The Pacific Islands Forum hopes to send a high-level delegation to Kanaky New Caledonia to investigate the current political crisis...
A role for Pacific media in charting a pragmatic global outlook
By Shailendra Bahadur Singh and Amit Sarwal in Suva
Given the intensifying situation, journalists, academics and experts joined to state the need for the Pacific,...