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A protester with a "Shame on those who deal in death!" placard

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Greens accuse Australian police of ‘excessive force’ against anti-war protesters at arms expo

September 11, 2024

A demonstrator holds a sign reading, "Selective Justice is Injustice"

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How Israel has set a dangerous precedent in international law

Fiji's NGO Coalition on Human Rights chair Shamima Ali

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Fiji ‘failing’ the Gaza genocide and humanity test, says rights group

Many critics are saying the Trump plan could “sideline” the Palestinians

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Indonesian protesters slam Prabowo over ‘peacekeeping’ troops for Gaza

A collage of the many fires on New Caledonia’s Catholic missions

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New Caledonia crisis: Another church burns, spate of attacks continues

PNG Prime Minister James Marape meets Indonesian President Joko Widodo

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Marape claims PNG has ‘no right’ to criticise abuses in West...

September 8, 2023

Former Green parliamentarian and political activist Keith Locke at a Waihopai protest

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How former Greens MP Keith Locke often became a voice for...

June 27, 2024

Rongelap MP Hilton Kendall speaking at the welcoming ceremony for the Rainbow Warrior in Majuro

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Marshall Islands: How the Rongelap evacuation changed the course of history

March 15, 2025

UpScrolled . . . the Palestinian-Australian "free speech" platform

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UpScrolled – the pro-Palestine platform shaking up social media

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January 30, 2026

New Zealand protesters scale Christchurch arms company building accused over supplying sniper scopes

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NZ arms company building linked to Gaza genocide, claim peace activists

March 4, 2025

Freedom Flotilla humanitarian activists

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Gaza-bound aid ship attacked by ‘Israeli piracy’ in talks with Malta

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May 5, 2025

Armed resistance fighters of the Jenin Brigade in Jenin refugee camp 0n 29 December 2025

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‘Humiliated, attacked, beaten’: How Palestinian Authority assaults West Bank refugee camp...

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January 14, 2025

President Joe Biden

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UN to vote over reviving Palestine’s bid for membership as Biden...

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May 10, 2024

Former Human Rights Watch head Ken Roth on Israel and genocide

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The ‘Godfather of Human Rights’ Ken Roth on genocide, Trump and...

June 26, 2025

Pro-independence FLNKS representative in the French National Assembly Emmanuel Tjibaou

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French MPs vote to postpone New Caledonia’s elections to June 2026

October 30, 2025

US sanctions on the International Criminal Court

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Peters’ refusal to join ICC backers puts NZ in Trump’s ‘lawless...

February 10, 2025

New Zealand is about to sacrifice what it cannot afford to lose for something it doesn’t need

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Eugene Doyle: It’s bigger than NATO and it’s heading our way

July 24, 2024

French police crackdown in Nouméa

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Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Pro-independence militant leaders arrested

June 20, 2024

Prime Minister James Marape presenting a traditional eagle wood spear with totems to French President Emmanuel Macron

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Macron warns of ‘new colonialism’ in Pacific, but clings to French...

August 3, 2023

A Jewish Voice for Peace rally

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Palestine solidarity must keep up pressure as Israel defies Gaza ceasefire...

March 28, 2024

Physicist and peace advocate Dr Peter Wills

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NZ rally slams Five Eyes intelligence ties hours before US-Israel attack...

February 28, 2026

The Encampments

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The Encampments vs October 8 – a battle of narratives on...

Pacific Media Watch -

May 10, 2025

The flag of Hawai'i waves beside a sign reading "Tourist(s) Keep Out" in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires

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Native Hawai’ian official blames colonisation, climate change for wildfires

August 18, 2023

A pro-Iranian protest in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, yesterday

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Why manufacturing consent for war with Iran failed this time

June 29, 2025

Pacific Islands Forum "troika-plus" leaders have visited Kanaky New Caledonia on a fact-finding mission

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Pacific leaders’ mission to Nouméa – Mapou says New Caledonia at...

October 30, 2024

A pro-Kanak independence rally for New Caledonia

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Thousands take to Nouméa streets ahead of French Parliament debate on...

April 2, 2026

Protesters shout slogans and hold placards during a national demonstration against the Israeli wars on Gaza, occupied Palestine and Iran

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Starving Gaza civilians toll climbs at Israeli humanitarian ‘death traps’

Pacific Media Watch -

June 22, 2025

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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

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

Decolonisation

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

Decolonisation

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"

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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

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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

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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

Kidnapped protesters Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila

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Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention

PINA president Kalafi Moala

Asia Report

Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats...

Reporters Without Borders says for the first time in the Index's history, more than half of the world's countries now fall into the "difficult" or "very serious" categories for press freedom

Australia

Fiji climbs to 24th in World Press Freedom Index, biggest gain...

Tongan police are investigating the threat against a Kele'a journalist incident on April 23

Crime

Tongan police investigate journalist threatened at gunpoint after gang-related report

EDITOR'S PICKS

Brazilian humanitarian aid activist Thiago Ávila

Asia Report

UN commissioner condemns Israeli kidnapping, detention of Brazilian flotilla activist

Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat (right) and FLNKS president Christian Téin during a meeting in Port Vila

Decolonisation

New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS...

PINA president Kalafi Moala

Asia Report

Fiji’s media win in World Press Freedom Index overshadowed by threats...

"I stand against genocide" placard at a Stop Wars protest in Auckland's Aotea Square last month

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Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists

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

Brazilian humanitarian aid activist Thiago Ávila

Asia Report

UN commissioner condemns Israeli kidnapping, detention of Brazilian flotilla activist

Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat (right) and FLNKS president Christian Téin during a meeting in Port Vila

Decolonisation

New Caledonia suspends trade cooperation with Vanuatu in row over FLNKS...

Two foreign activists -- Brazilian Thiago Ávila and Spanish Palestinian Saif Abukeshek -- from a Gaza-bound flotilla who were kidnapped and taken to Israel for interrogation and appeared before an Israeli court on May 3 and again two days later

Decolonisation

Israel’s kidnapping of two important pro-Palestine global activists reaffirms persecution

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele

Democracy

Manele calls parliament for Thursday to face no confidence motion