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By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A leaked "working paper" on New Caledonia's future political status is causing concern on the local...

COMMENTARY: By Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab “Wherever Palestinians have control is barbaric.” These were the words from New Zealand’s Chief Human Rights Commissioner Stephen Rainbow. During a meeting...

ANALYSIS: By Jane McAdam, UNSW Sydney The details of a new visa enabling Tuvaluan citizens to permanently migrate to Australia were released this week. The visa...

Asia Pacific Report The Baptist Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East has condemned Israeli's Palm Sunday attack on al-Ahli Arab Hospital, the last functioning...

The New Arab The Israeli military has reportedly only destroyed 25 percent of tunnels used by Hamas in the Gaza Strip since October 2023,...

Asia Pacific Report Health workers spoke out at a rally condemning Israel's genocide in Gaza and the latest atrocity against Palestinian aid workers today, calling...

RNZ Pacific Pacific climate activists this week handed a letter from civil society to this year's United Nations climate conference hosts, Brazil, emphasising their demands...

By Layla Bailey-McDowell, RNZ Māori news journalist Legal experts and Māori advocates say the fight to protect Te Tiriti is only just beginning -- as...

ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The BBC’s news verification service, Verify, digitally reconstructed a residential tower block in Mandalay earlier this week to show how it...

COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell The 1981 Springbok Tour was one of the most controversial events in Aotearoa New Zealand’s history. For 56 days, between July...

Asia Pacific Report The chief of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees has described Gaza as “no land” for children, as two rallies were held...

Now that Phil Goff has ended his term as New Zealand's High Commissioner to the UK, he is officially free to speak his mind...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Norfolk Island sees its United States tariff as an acknowledgment of independence from Australia. Norfolk Island, despite being an Australian...

By Harlyne Joku and BenarNews staff Residents of an informal Port Moresby settlement that was razed following the gang rape and murder of a woman...

ANALYSIS: By Niven Winchester, Auckland University of Technology We now have a clearer picture of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs and how they will affect...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Although New Zealand and Australia seem to have escaped the worst of Donald Trump's latest tariffs, some Pacific Islands...

By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter A stoush between the Chief Human Rights Commissioner and a Jewish community leader has flared up following a...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Joe Gill It is difficult to be shocked after 18 months of Israel's genocidal onslaught on Gaza. Brazen crimes against humanity have become...

By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court has ruled that Parliament must be recalled on April 8 to debate a...

By Leilani Farha of The New Arab "I started filming when we started to end." With these haunting words, Basel Adra begins No Other Land,...

The second of a two-part series on the historic Rongelap evacuation of 300 Marshall islanders from their irradiated atoll with the help of the...

The first of a two-part series on the historic Rongelap evacuation of 300 Marshall islanders from their irradiated atoll with the help of the...