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Nakba censorship at Columbia University

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Columbia Law Review website shut down over ‘censored’ article critical of Israel

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June 5, 2024

Kanaky for independence from France

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New Zealand’s role in helping bring peace to Kanaky New Caledonia

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Jailing of Jakarta Six fuels virus fears over Papuan political prisoners

While Māori are guaranteed representation through the Māori electoral roll at the national level . . .

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Gerard Otto: Low turnout and rates pressure drive down Māori wards in NZ local elections

PNG Prime Minister James Marape

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Marape seeks help from Australia, Singapore to fight PNG corruption

Rainbow Warrior

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35 years on, Tahiti’s Temaru likely guest in Rainbow Warrior rewind

July 29, 2020

Prominent Fiji lawyer Richard Naidu

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Amnesty, Civicus condemn Fiji spelling mistake contempt lawsuit as ‘violation’

Pacific Media Watch -

August 10, 2022

By turns over his long career, Michael Leunig was a poet, a prophet and a provocateur

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The closest thing Australian cartooning had to a prophet: the sometimes...

Pacific Media Watch -

December 22, 2024

West Papuan Morning Star flag at burial

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OPM leader calls on Biden to take proactive role in ending...

May 17, 2023

Peace Action cover detail

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Lessons from peace activists – and action is up to the...

March 20, 2023

The controversial photo of Milne Bay Governor Gordon Wesley (red shirt) and gang leader Eugene Pakailasi (blue shirt)

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Milne Bay governor explains secret meeting with notorious PNG gang

September 12, 2023

Suva police roadblock

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NGOs, MPs warn ‘draconian’ draft bill will turn Fiji into police...

March 13, 2021

Human rights defender Carmel Budiardjo

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Papuan and human rights defender Carmel Budiardjo dies at 96

July 13, 2021

Mabel Wharekawa-Burt . . . 17Aug2-24

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NZ’s Western Bay of Plenty councillors vote for Māori wards –...

August 18, 2023

A West Papuan Morning Star flag of independence flies higm among dozens of climate activists - from both the Netherlands and abroad - gathered on a square outside the court

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UN’s highest court finds countries can be held legally responsible for...

July 24, 2025

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Dawn Raids – Pasifika ‘liberated’ to talk about painful past

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April 10, 2019

Mohammed Saneem

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Fiji political parties call for probe into elections chief Saneem’s ‘behaviour’

November 14, 2021

Under international law -- if anyone still pays attention to such things -- the Iranians have a strong case

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Eugene Doyle: Iran demands hundreds of billions in reparations for being...

April 27, 2026

Victor Yeimo arrested for calling for an independence referendum

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HRW demands police drop treason charges against Papuan activist Yeimo

May 14, 2021

Gaza's "port" area showing the degree of devastation

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Two years after October 7: Israel’s war, Gaza’s ashes, and the...

October 9, 2025

South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa

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ICJ’s stunning blow over Gaza war genocide charge ups pressure on...

January 27, 2024

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Rights lawyer Amal Clooney to represent journalist Maria Ressa

Pacific Media Watch -

July 9, 2019

The K2.7 million PNG hole-in-ground

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K2.7 million hole, other failed PNG projects land contractors in court

September 9, 2021

French sailors hunker down in an inflatable

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

February 5, 2026

New Zealand diasporic supporters of Vice-President Leni Robredo in the Philippine presidential election

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Bongbong politics: Rehabilitating the Philippines’ martial law Marcos family

May 9, 2022

Labour MP Louisa Wall

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Departing Labour MP Louisa Wall: ‘This was not entirely my choice’

April 14, 2022

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RSF concerned about ‘lack of evidence’ in US extradition case against...

Pacific Media Watch -

February 29, 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

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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

Justice

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

Justice

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

Justice

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

NZ Media and Communications Minister Minister Dr Paul Goldsmith

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Does abolishing the BSA mean the end of NZ’s enforceable media...

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

Fiji has climbed from 40th place in 2025 in the latest RSF World Press Freedom Index

Democracy

Political reforms drive Fiji’s big press freedom gains, says RSF

Kidnapped protesters Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila

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

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

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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

Justice

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

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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

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

Justice

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

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