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‘Committed to human rights’, claims Indonesia over West Papua torture

March 25, 2024

Olayan Olayan, who was born in the village of Battir in 1941, overlooks a valley in which a new Israeli settler outpost is built

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Israel’s rampant ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinian communities

Fijian community help Bank of South Pacific staff clean up in Honiara

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Solomon Islands riots: International community monitoring ‘nervous’ calm

Rioting breaks out in Port Moresby as looters take advantage of a protest by the Papua New Guinea's police

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At least 10 dead after looting, fires on Port Moresby’s ‘darkest day’

Peter O'Neil

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Former PM O’Neill granted bail on corruption claims and will self-isolate

Police guard looted shop

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Rioters, looters strike PNG cities as nation mourns death of Somare

March 3, 2021

Far-right Israelis and relatives of the soldiers gather in front of a military court building and stage a protest

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Charges dropped against 5 soldiers accused of sexually assaulting Palestinian detainee...

March 13, 2026

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence

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

July 6, 2025

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Israel’s ‘illogical’ legal defence off to weak start, says analyst Bishara

Pacific Media Watch -

January 13, 2024

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‘Blood everywhere’ – 50 deaths in massacre at mosques in NZ...

March 15, 2019

PSNA co-chair Maher Nazzal

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PSNA seeks urgent police talks after ‘rock through window’ attack on...

January 28, 2026

An Israeli army spokesperson had falsely called Al Jazeera Arabic’s Gaza correspondent Anas Al-Sharif a "terrorist" multiple times

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CPJ condemns Israeli killing of Gaza journalist Anas al-Sharif and video...

Pacific Media Watch -

August 11, 2025

Gaza press flak jackets

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CPJ ranks Israel second-to-top on unpunished journalist murders index in Gaza...

Pacific Media Watch -

October 31, 2024

Social workers fear the number of cases of slavery in Aotearoa New Zealand may be the tip of the iceberg

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Pacific children as young as 6 adopted, made to work as...

May 19, 2025

ACP Anthony Wagambie Jnr

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PNG military hand over three suspects in police officer killing

May 14, 2020

Madang GBV protest

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Many in black rally for Jenelyn and against PNG gender-based violence

July 3, 2020

PNG former prime minister Peter O'Neill outside Boroko Police Station

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O’Neill claims perjury charges over PNG’s UBS loan inquiry ‘political’

June 12, 2023

The burnt out vehicle with the clearly visible "Press" label in which an Israeli strike killed the five journalists in Gaza

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Five journalists killed by Israeli air strike near hospital – media...

Pacific Media Watch -

December 26, 2024

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Indonesia’s 1965 purge – the persecuted and persecutors in safe space

May 2, 2016

Swedish lawyer and diplomat Elinor Hammarskjold opens by presenting evidence for the United Nations

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Israel accused at ICJ of using aid as ‘weapons of war’...

Pacific Media Watch -

April 28, 2025

Names on the Wall of Shame

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A Wall of Shame – but do Pacific Islanders even notice...

July 29, 2024

Acting BPNG governor Benny Popoitai

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PNG bank agency probes 5000 money-laundering cases – but no prosecutions

August 25, 2022

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Filipino shootout at PNG supermarket sparks demand for firearms ban

February 19, 2018

Battalion 751 on parade

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TNI accused of attacking, arresting Papuans after traffic row – girl...

November 8, 2020

Highlands women attending a funeral 290621

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Fears of covid-19 ‘time bomb’ of sorcery accusations, violence in PNG

June 29, 2021

PNG Ports chief Fego Kiniafa killed

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PNG Ports chief executive killed in Highlands fight

September 20, 2022

French sailors hunker down in an inflatable

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French shrug off cocaine case costs with new smugglers ‘strategy’

February 5, 2026

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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

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

Asia Report

Journalist Cole Martin tells it ‘like it is in reality’ in...

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire

Analysis

Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide

Crime

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"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

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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...

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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

Fiji's Lautoka City Council says it has started in collaboration with the Fiji Police Force

Civil Society

Who is responsible? Glaring lack of clarity over Fiji operation to...

Facilitators at a New Zealand public protest meeting in Auckland this week planning for a Global March for Palestine on October 10

Asia Report

Israel ready to ‘forcibly remove’ Gaza population but awaiting US approval

NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters (from left), Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown and the US Deputy State Secretary, Christopher Landau

Cook Islands

US pushes critical minerals agenda in Cook Islands with Penrhyn ‘lifeline’

Pro-Palestine activists at a public meeting in Auckland last night planning for the New Zealand share of the Global March for Palestine

Asia Report

PSNA raps NZ govt over ‘haphazard’ foreign policy and mixed messages

EDITOR'S PICKS

Himalayan Tsunami . . . Kirti Tamang, 5, was in her classroom in Betrawati on the morning when the flood arrived with a roar

Analysis

Nepali Times: Not if, but when next?

Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Democracy

Sacked Solomon Islands finance minister says Cabinet revolt is imminent

Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm

Analysis

Minerals, military strategy draw the eye of Trump to isolated atoll...

Facilitators at a New Zealand public protest meeting in Auckland this week planning for a Global March for Palestine on October 10

Asia Report

Israel ready to ‘forcibly remove’ Gaza population but awaiting US approval

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

Himalayan Tsunami . . . Kirti Tamang, 5, was in her classroom in Betrawati on the morning when the flood arrived with a roar

Analysis

Nepali Times: Not if, but when next?

Sacked Solomon Islands Finance Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo

Democracy

Sacked Solomon Islands finance minister says Cabinet revolt is imminent

Isolation hasn't been the greatest enemy for the people of Tongareva; arguably, it's engagement with the outside world that's done them more harm

Analysis

Minerals, military strategy draw the eye of Trump to isolated atoll...

Facilitators at a New Zealand public protest meeting in Auckland this week planning for a Global March for Palestine on October 10

Asia Report

Israel ready to ‘forcibly remove’ Gaza population but awaiting US approval