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ANALYSIS: By Hugh Piper and Anna Gibert As geopolitics brings increasing engagement by external actors with the Pacific, there is a need to coordinate more...

RNZ Pacific A West Papua pro-independence leader says Indonesia is ramping up its repression of peaceful activists while people mobilise in favour of the...

ANALYSIS: By Claire Rioult, Monash University and Romain Fathi, Flinders University For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of...

PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea police in East New Britain have launched a 21-day operation to clamp down on community conflicts in the province. Police operation...

Asia Pacific Report Kanaky New Caledonia's parliamentary President (speaker) Roch Wamytan says it is time for France to end colonisation in the Pacific territory. Speaking to...

RNZ Pacific Solomon Islands opposition leader Matthew Wale has accused the country's Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, of mocking Solomon Islanders. On Monday, Solomon Islands signed nine...

Asia Pacific Report An Australian advocacy group for West Papua self-determination has condemned yesterday's arrest by Indonesian security forces of 10 West Papua National Committee...

By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has told RNZ Pacific its standards are not outdated. It comes as...

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea and Indonesia say the economic and social ties between them are closer than ever. Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo visited Port...

By Blessen Tom, RNZ News journalist A third New Zealand university is close to signing with Mumbai's Bombay Stock Exchange Institute, opening up opportunities for...

By Singgih Wiryono in Jakarta Indonesia's former National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) chairperson Ahmad Taufan Damanik says it is difficult to expect Komnas HAM...

Jubi News The Jayapura High Court has found West Papuan human rights and social justice activist Victor Yeimo guilty of treason and sentenced him to...

By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist Pacific island countries' "relentless" efforts at the UN's specialist agency on shipping, International Maritime...

Pacific Media Watch Australian-German investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein argues Israel has used the Occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground to develop weaponry and surveillance...

Asia Pacific Report An Australian human rights author and poet has accused successive federal governments of “deliberately aiding and abetting” the 1969 annexation of West...

By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Papua New Guinea's amended Criminal Code Act will give police the power to deal with what they are...

COMMENTARY: A special correspondent in Port Moresby As an officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs in the Papua New Guinea government, I have to...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya An Indonesian court hearing was held at Tipikor Court, Jakarta, last week when suspended Papuan Governor Lukas Enembe was arraigned...

ANALYSIS: By François Dubet, Université de Bordeaux Although they never fail to take us aback, French riots have followed the same distinct pattern ever since...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto No government likes to be called out for human rights abuses and it’s uncomfortable to do so, particularly when the abuser...

RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea's Minister of Bougainville Affairs, Manasseh Makiba, believes an absolute majority is needed for the vote on the Bougainville referendum because...

COMMENTARY: By Chlöe Swarbrick In 1988, our National Housing Commission declared, “New Zealand does not have the huge, insoluble problems of homelessness and substandard housing...