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Every time a Fiji student misses school because the river that she crosses is flooded or at risk of flooding, that student is denied the full enjoyment of this right

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Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with clarity and impact

January 6, 2026

Fisheries

Pacific delegates warn against US fast-tracking seabed mining

An Odysseus 6K remotely operated vehicle

Fisheries

Vanuatu fights for marine protection at key UN deep-sea mining summit

Trump's Pacific fisheries executive order

Fisheries

Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific

RNZN divers surveying the area around HMNZS Manawanui

Fisheries

‘We’re eating tinned fish’ – Samoa villagers plead for Manawanui wreckage compensation

New Zealand's planned fisheries laws changes "spell disaster for the already struggling ocean around us"

Fisheries

Greenpeace condemns NZ’s ‘dodgy reforms’ plan weakening ocean protection

August 7, 2025

Global action to protect oceans from climate change

Fisheries

Apia Ocean Declaration to be ‘crown jewel’ of CHOGM climate ‘fight...

October 23, 2024

Tuvalu from the air

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World’s ‘smallest university’, but Tuvalu campus has big local impact

January 29, 2024

US Vice-President Kamala Harris

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Fiji police evict two Chinese defence attaches amid Pacific Forum tensions

Pacific Media Watch -

July 13, 2022

A Pacific protester against the Fukushima nuclear wastewater discharge plan

Fisheries

Countdown starts as Japan poised to release first batch of treated...

August 23, 2023

Fisheries

Researchers explore Pacific Ocean’s hidden deep ‘secrets’

April 26, 2016

Fisheries

Ocean at ‘breaking point’: Pacific angst at latest climate report

October 3, 2019

Domestic airline Air Calédonie’s ATR 72-600 to fly biweekly to Port Vila from October 2024

Fisheries

New Caledonia crisis: Unrest-hit Air Calédonie in search of new markets

September 11, 2024

The Rainbow Warrior III in action against industrial longlining fishing in the South Pacific

Fisheries

Greenpeace activists aboard Rainbow Warrior disrupt Pacific industrial fishing operation

June 12, 2025

Fisheries

Tuna fishing deal dispute keeps US boats out of Pacific waters

January 18, 2016

Fisheries

Fiji’s climate change patterns hit pristine coral reefs hard

Anuja Nadkarni -

April 19, 2016

twin catastrophic threats of climate change and a pandemic

Fisheries

Australians are 3 times more worried about climate change than covid....

August 7, 2021

Greenpeace activists, along with representatives of Taranaki iwi Ngāti Ruanui, disrupted the annual general meeting of Manuka Resources

Fisheries

Norway halts seabed mining, putting more pressure on NZ to do...

December 3, 2024

Fisheries

Vanuatu agrees to pay Vt18 million fine to avoid fisheries blacklisting

December 5, 2016

The Gambier Islands

Fisheries

French Polynesia president announces huge highly protected marine area

June 11, 2025

Spawning kawaka

Fisheries

Fijian policymaker calls for an ‘inspired’ defence of world oceans

June 8, 2022

Australian anti-nuclear activist Nat Lowrey (left) joined activists from Japan, Tonga and Fiji in Sapporo, Japan,

Fisheries

Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests

June 29, 2023

Fisheries

‘Shared stewardship’ of ocean key to Pacific Forum strategy

Pacific Media Watch -

September 5, 2017

Fisheries

Vanuatu heat wave suspected cause for sudden death of fish

February 9, 2016

New Marshall Islands fisheries book

Fisheries

How extraordinary Marshall Islands fisheries story grew … and grew

October 2, 2021

Fresh fish at a wet market

Fisheries

How Fukushima wastewater into Pacific will disrupt seafood trade

April 15, 2023

Fisheries

Arrested ship crew deny ‘bunkering’, other marine charges in PNG court

September 27, 2020

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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

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

Analysis

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

Asia Report

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

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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 Times journalist Alifereti Josefa-Sakiasi speaking at the combined Fiji universities' World Press Freedom Day talanoa

Democracy

Media programmes at USP, FNU join forces for World Press Freedom...

Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

Democracy

‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

PSNA national spokesperson Rinad Tamimi

Asia Report

NZ govt must rebuke Israeli envoy over beating of citizens, says...

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...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year

Business

French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

Maiki Sherman winning the Māori Journalist of the Year at the Ngā Kupu Ora Awards 2017

Decolonisation

Oriini Kaipara: This reeks of foul play by a NZ govt...

Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

Democracy

‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga

French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu (left) and President Emmanuel Macron

Decolonisation

New Caledonia provincial elections set for June but voter roll changes...

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

Tonga police are investigating the armed threat against a female journalist at the Kele’a Voice newsroom

Analysis

Tongan armed threat against journalist troubles Pacific media freedom

The French Ambassador to Vanuatu, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, with Vanuatu Prime Minister Jotham Napat in March last year

Business

French ambassador’s social media diplomacy lands poorly in Vanuatu

Maiki Sherman winning the Māori Journalist of the Year at the Ngā Kupu Ora Awards 2017

Decolonisation

Oriini Kaipara: This reeks of foul play by a NZ govt...

Solomon Islands journalists Eddie Osifelo (from left), Jenny Kay and Robert Iroga at the 2026 World Press Freedom Day celebration in Honiara

Democracy

‘Money problems’ the real threat to Pacific press freedom, says Iroga