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Richard McLeod: Make our voices known against the euthanasia bill

January 31, 2018

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Pacific Island leaders tightening the screws on press freedom, dissent

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Indonesian police detain 49 in attack, vandalising of Papuan dormitory

Security forces watch from behind barbed wire as indigenous Papuans from Merauke in the Indonesia-ruled Melanesian region protest

Civil Society

Survey warning on Papua ‘box ticking’ mega estates project goes unheeded

Civil Society

Debate in Philippines as clergy assess gains, costs of married priests

Civil Society

Indonesia arrests 67 Papuan students in Jayapura backing Vanuatu’s UN bid

September 26, 2018

Civil Society

Indonesian youngsters want to break free from ‘propaganda’

March 21, 2016

The Civicus "civic freedoms" in the Pacific report

Civil Society

Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect...

Pacific Media Watch -

November 26, 2025

Greenpeace Aotearoa held a dawn ceremony on board the Rainbow Warrior III today commemorating the 40th anniversary of the bombing of the original Rainbow Warrior and the death of photographer Fernando Pereira on 10 July 1985

Civil Society

Rainbow Warrior bombing by French secret agents remembered 40 years on

July 10, 2025

Protesters march in support of Palestinians in Berlin

Civil Society

Genocide research institute levels accusations against Germany

January 24, 2026

West Papua human rights advocate and independence leader Octo Mote

Civil Society

Legends of a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific – Octo Mote

Pacific Media Watch -

July 6, 2025

"The silence of governments like ours imagines this dystopia as a new baseline"

Civil Society

Marilyn Garson: How shall we speak now since the Gaza ‘ceasefire’?

November 18, 2025

Te Pāti Māori's Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke is Aotearoa’s youngest MP since 1853 and is seen as representing the "kohanga reo" generation of young Māori

Civil Society

NZ’s leading newspaper defends young MP’s Parliament ‘shining light’ haka

Pacific Media Watch -

November 21, 2024

These dramatic changes that have been foisted upon the country’s public square have been central to a broad campaign that the Zionist lobby

Civil Society

Federal government’s crackdown on free speech affects all Australians

January 23, 2026

A display of Nagasaki photographs past and present

Civil Society

Advocate slams NZ snub of Nagasaki peace tribute as ‘outrageous’

August 9, 2024

Civil Society

Rousing, inspirational public challenge to ‘no way’ TPPA deal

January 27, 2016

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PNG’s general election faces ‘limbo’ threat over preparations, says Polye

February 9, 2017

NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters

Civil Society

Why NZ must act against Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide

May 29, 2025

Prominent activist Tame Iti joins the Hīkoi

Civil Society

Hīkoi day five: 10,000 join as Treaty bill protest halts traffic...

November 15, 2024

NZ Finance Minister Nicola Willis

Civil Society

Budget 2025: Pacific Ministry faces major cuts, yet new initiatives aim...

May 22, 2025

NGO Coalition on Human Rights in Fiji chair Shamima Ali

Civil Society

Fiji human rights activists pay tribute to slain Gaza journalists, but...

Pacific Media Watch -

January 14, 2024

Peace activists at a recent protest for Palestine in Naarm/Melbourne

Civil Society

Provocateur attacks Australian Palestine peace activists protesting over Gaza genocide

January 21, 2026

Civil Society

German judges oppose ‘investment courts’ for Europe trade deal

February 4, 2016

Dictator of Year Spinoff

Civil Society

How to make sense of white supremacy and settler colonialism for...

November 23, 2021

Speaker Jason Brooke at the NZ Palestine rally

Civil Society

Health workers call for NZ government to join global demands for...

April 12, 2025

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Why is Israel so afraid of 16-year-old Palestinian girl Ahed Tamimi?

January 4, 2018

Civil Society

‘Rize of Morning Star’ boosts global ‘free Papua’ movement with new...

December 3, 2016

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr

Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent

Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate

Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

BEARING WITNESS

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"

Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

Civil Society

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior

Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016

APJS newsfile

Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

Professor David Robie

Asia Report

David Robie: Pacific lessons in climate crisis journalism and combating disinformation

USP and AUT journalism collaboration

Bearing Witness

Pacific ‘voice of the voiceless’ media in renewed post-covid struggle

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APJS NEWSFILE

Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

APJS newsfile

Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

APJS newsfile

Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

APJS newsfile

Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

QUT student journalist Maxim Bock with Fiji TV's director of news, current affairs and sports Felix Chaudhary (right)

APJS newsfile

Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

POPULAR POSTS

Social justice and Palestine campaigner Roger Fowler

Civil Society

The Palestine Chronicle: Roger Fowler’s legacy – a Palestinian tribute

Port Moresby's Bomana Correctional Facility . . . nine inmates injured in an confrontation with jail guards. Image: RNZ/Johnny Blades

Crime

Inmates in critical condition after alleged attack by PNG corrections officers

Pacific nations like Tuvalu face an existential threat from rising sea levels

Australia

Climate-related migration: Is New Zealand living up to the ‘Pacific family’...

Israel and US stage joint attacks on Tehran

Asia Report

‘We warned you,’ says Iran’s national security chief after Israel-US attacks

EDITOR'S PICKS

Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut

Asia Report

Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut: An extraordinary sense of truth in an...

Expanding the Israeli illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim

Analysis

Amnesty slams global impunity fueling Israel’s illegal West Bank annexation measures

Former Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte

Analysis

Duterte’s ICC pre-trial in The Hague: What prosecution, victims, defence say...

Port Moresby's Bomana Correctional Facility . . . nine inmates injured in an confrontation with jail guards. Image: RNZ/Johnny Blades

Crime

Inmates in critical condition after alleged attack by PNG corrections officers

MOST COMMENTS

Australia

Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

Analysis

Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace

Global

Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

Asia Report

Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

GLOBAL REPORTAGE

Solidarity author Eugene Doyle with Cuban Ambassador Luis Ernesto Morejón Rodríguez

Analysis

Cuban ambassador denounces US aggression and violations of international law

New UK Green Party member Hannah Spencer

Decolonisation

Local plumber Hannah Spencer beats both Reform and Labour to win...

Expanding the Israeli illegal settlement of Ma’ale Adumim

Analysis

Amnesty slams global impunity fueling Israel’s illegal West Bank annexation measures

Former Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte

Analysis

Duterte’s ICC pre-trial in The Hague: What prosecution, victims, defence say...