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Fijian riot police surrounded the Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre in Fiji’s capital, Suva, in June

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Eugene Doyle: Jesus wept – Pacific Forum endorses Israel and genocide

November 5, 2026

Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon

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Caitlin Johnstone: Israel claims it had nothing to do with Trump’s decision to attack Iran . . . and other notes

“This partnership will unravel: not strengthen, that weave.

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Shameful Israel move by Pacific Islands Forum undermines decolonisation and justice

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted on an International Criminal Court warrant for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity, begins his controversial speech at UNGA

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‘Baseless lies meant to sanitise his genocide’ – Mayor Mamdani hits back after Netanyahu’s attacks during UN speech

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under fire

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‘Toxic Netanyahu’ – Israeli opposition calls for his removal after US midterms

Chinese infrastructure assistance for Solomon Islands amid covid-19 pandemic

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Chinese project experts arrive in Solomons amid pandemic surge

February 7, 2022

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TPP deal signed off as thousands take to central Auckland to...

February 6, 2016

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

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New Zealand to remain at red covid-19 traffic light setting amid...

April 4, 2022

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Media face blockade over human rights reporting in Myanmar

November 8, 2016

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David Robie: Florida airport shootings – few basic questions being raised

January 12, 2017

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Bishop speaks up for jobless Papuan workers in Indonesian mining dispute

March 10, 2017

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PNG election officials face big ‘one day’ voting challenge in capital

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June 27, 2017

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Indonesian protesters call for end to violence against women in Yogya

March 9, 2018

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Thousands of NZers share messages of hope for Muslim whānau

March 20, 2019

Fiji Day 2023

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Fiji marks 53rd anniversary with a message of ‘unity in diversity’

October 12, 2023

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MEAA protests over police raid on Canberra journalist’s home

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June 4, 2019

Liberal democracy was not the form of government Britain established in Aotearoa

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Waitangi 2024: how NZ’s Tiriti strengthens democracy and checks unbridled power

January 26, 2024

Former Fiji prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama in a more jovial mood

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Fiji state appeals Banimarama and Qiliho sentences in corruption case

March 28, 2024

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan

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ICC demands end to threats against court amid Gaza war probe

May 4, 2024

Professor Vijay Naidu

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Former FANG president Vijay Naidu talks Pacific anti-nuclear activism

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July 23, 2024

Human Rights Watch researcher Andreas Harsono

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Terrorist tag in West Papua could worsen racism, says rights group

May 7, 2021

UPNG harassment protest 190621

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‘We’re not sending our daughters to be punching bags at uni,’...

June 19, 2021

Masked office workers in Jakarta

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Java, Bali brace for covid emergency lockdown as Indonesia’s cases surge

July 2, 2021

A poster taped to a lamppost protesting against the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil

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Free press under threat in US – Columbia J-School speaks out

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March 18, 2025

NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

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PM Ardern on covid-19 vaccine for children, booster doses and Tonga

January 17, 2022

Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelenskyy

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The value of virtue: 7 reasons why Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s crisis leadership...

May 1, 2022

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‘We won’t back down,’ warn UPNG students over PM

May 21, 2016

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29

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COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"

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COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm

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Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors

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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

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Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson

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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

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NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all

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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

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

BEARING WITNESS

“Anything’s possible. Don’t give up hope.”

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Caitlin Johnstone: Assange returns to public commentary . . . ...

Journalist and video storyteller Cole Martin

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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

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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

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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...

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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society

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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

Fijian women journalists face abuse, harassment and spam online.

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Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

Islands Business general manager Samantha Magick (right)

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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)

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Surviving harassment in journalism – how Felix Chaudhary kept on top

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Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon

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Global progress against impunity for crimes against journalists has been reversed by the rise in incidents of journalists killed in conflict zones

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Journalism cannot survive where attacks on journalists go unpunished

The UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its 431st meeting with the theme “Human Dignity under Strain"

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PSNA ‘outraged’ over NZ suspension of UNRWA aid, calls for immediate...

Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka (left) and former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama, both ex-coup leaders

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Removing Fiji coup immunity may change little, says lawyer Naidu

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Abahlali baseMjondolo co-founder and leader S’bu Zikode

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Still stealing the generations – the abduction of Indigenous Australian children...

Jacinda Ardern

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Deported Freedom Flotilla activist Mike Treen arrives back in NZ

Taiwan Day event in Suva

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Chinese diplomatic gatecrash incident alleged at Taiwan event in Suva

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Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins

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