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The Civicus "civic freedoms" in the Pacific report

Solomon Islands

Civicus raps 8 Pacific countries for ‘not doing enough’ to protect civic rights, press freedom

Pacific Media Watch -

November 26, 2025

Solomon Islands Chief Electoral Officer Jasper Anisi told RNZ Pacific all elections materials have been distributed and the country is ready to go to the polls

Solomon Islands

Let the games begin – coalition negotiations underway in Honiara

New Zealand Defence Force troops in Honiara

Solomon Islands

More NZ peacekeepers arrive to help defuse tensions in Solomon Islands

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants

Solomon Islands

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

Vanuatu's public broadcaster VBTC reporting on the Melanesian Spearhead Group's denial of full membership for West Papua

Solomon Islands

OPM accuses Melanesian group of taking Jakarta’s ‘blood money’ at expense of West Papuan justice

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands students ‘denied’ opportunity to vote in election

April 5, 2019

Fiji anti-corruption will declining

Solomon Islands

An update on the ‘good governance coup’ – political will, corruption...

December 9, 2022

A graceful young Melanesian dancer shares her culture

Solomon Islands

Melanesians gathering for ‘unique’ NZ cultural event to celebrate identity

October 17, 2023

Coverage of decolonisation in the Pacific, the lack of women's representation in parliaments

Solomon Islands

Independent Pacific media face reckoning after US aid cuts

Pacific Media Watch -

June 5, 2025

Get whole story on covid

Solomon Islands

Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation

June 29, 2021

Solomon Islands Chief Electoral Officer Jasper Anisi told RNZ Pacific all elections materials have been distributed and the country is ready to go to the polls

Solomon Islands

Let the games begin – coalition negotiations underway in Honiara

April 17, 2024

Solomon Islands National Parliament

Solomon Islands

Solomons PM condemned during confidence debate, but survives

December 6, 2021

Matthew Wale

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands riots: Wale calls for no confidence vote in ‘hiding’...

November 27, 2021

Emalus USP protest

Solomon Islands

Pacific leaders call for ‘common sense’ to prevail in USP impasse

June 13, 2020

"Tanah Papua", Biak Elok's version

Solomon Islands

Papuan aspirations at stake in divided Melanesian Spearhead Group politics

September 17, 2024

Henry Puna

Solomon Islands

Former Cook Islands PM elected new secretary-general of PIF in close...

February 4, 2021

The historic signing of the nuclear-free pact, also known as the Treaty of Rarotonga, took place in Majuro during the observance of the Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day on 3 March 2025

Solomon Islands

Marshall Islands signs treaty banning nuclear weapons in the South Pacific

March 5, 2025

Solomon Islands

Pacific journalists make human rights declaration for ‘voiceless’

April 16, 2016

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi (centre)

Solomon Islands

China’s whirlwind Pacific tour a slight success with several signed deals

June 3, 2022

Papuan Student Association Oceania musicians

Solomon Islands

‘Forgotten’ Melanesians host their first cultural festival in Aotearoa

October 23, 2022

Solomon Islands

Indian Ocean’s Smartfish wins global award for fight against illegal fishing

March 11, 2016

Solomon Islands

Solomons academic calls for caution over Taiwan/China decision

June 14, 2019

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

Solomon Islands

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

August 3, 2023

Solomon Islands

Taiwan ‘regrets and condemns’ Solomons’ China switch

September 17, 2019

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands police remain on high alert in the wake of...

April 26, 2019

Solomon Islands

Six Pacific Island nations ratify Paris Accord on climate change

Pacific Media Centre -

April 27, 2016

Scott Morrison

Solomon Islands

Morrison arrives in Solomons in first visit by an Australian PM...

June 3, 2019

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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

Solomon Islands

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

Holy Shit. Cartoon by Mr Fish

Analysis

Chris Hedges: The political dysfunction of Trump as God

Assassinated Amal Khalil

Asia Report

Targeted Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil bombed and left to die by...

Indonesian military forces conduct operations in Intan Jaya, Papua province

Asia Report

Stop selling arms to Indonesia, West Papuans urge Netherlands

Starlink green light . . . good news for many Papua New Guineans

Disasters

Starlink set to return to PNG after court quashes ban, clearing...

EDITOR'S PICKS

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Author Shana Chandra

Culture

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Analysis

As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own...

The US-Israeli war against Iran on hold . . . who really has the cards? I

Analysis

Martyn Bradbury: Why Iran is winning and will continue to win

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

The narrative being delivered through our “Western-centric” media lens is that Ukrainians are legitimately resisting and defending their homeland from an evil invader

Analysis

‘Self-defence’ and the contradictions of Western exceptionalism in our media

Author Shana Chandra

Culture

Girmitiya ancestry the inspiration behind Fiji writer’s debut novel

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin

Analysis

As Trump’s narrative on negotiations flails, Iran is setting its own...

A decision on the waste-to-energy proposal can only be issued following the completion of the full technical and regulatory review

Environment

Fiji PM Rabuka gives govt support for controversial waste-to-energy project