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‘Our people don’t want handouts’ – Pasifika voters seek action on...
By Coco Lance of RNZ Pacific
Aotearoa New Zealand will decide its next government on Saturday, November 7. But for many voters, the choice comes...
Al Jazeera – its vital place in the global media landscape...
COMMENTARY: By Mohamed Hassan
From the moment I first became conscious of my identity as an Arab, Al Jazeera was in the background.
It was as...
Fiji PM Rabuka delays vote on Constitution Bill after mounting pressure
By Kelvin Anthony of RNZ Pacific
Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has given in to public pressure and decided to extend the timeline for a...
Fiji PM Rabuka under pressure ahead of crucial vote on constitutional...
By Kelvin Anthony of RNZ Pacific
Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka's coalition government is falling apart ahead of the crucial third reading of a major...
NZ author praised over new book ‘bearing witness’ to Gaza genocide
Asia Pacific Report
A prominent Palestinian advocate has praised a new book launched last week investigating the history, human consequences and international failures over Israel's...
Fiji military seeks end to constitutional immunity, pledges neutrality
By Repeka Nasiko in Suva
Republic of the Fiji Military Forces Commander Major-General Ro Jone Kalouniwai has called for a Truth, Accountability and Reconciliation Commission...
Palestine genocide protesters in NZ condemn ‘Balfour betrayal’
Asia Pacific Report
Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in Auckland’s downtown Te Komititanga Square today recalled the 1917 colonial “Balfour betrayal” and condemned it for...
‘Ungrounding’ – Eyal Weizman on Gaza genocide and Israel’s ‘architecture of...
Democracy Now!
AMY GOODMAN: Israel is continuing to commit genocide in Gaza long past the so-called ceasefire agreement. That’s according to a new report out...
National Olympic body to oversee arrangement for rugby in Samoa
RNZ Pacific reporters
World Rugby has confirmed that the Samoa Association of Sports and National Olympic Committee (SASNOC) will now oversee the high-performance rugby programme...
Former Kiribati president says Pacific Islands Forum-Israel partnership not ‘morally defensible’
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
The chair of the Pacific Elders' Voice (PEV) says the argument that religious affinity justifies the Pacific Islands Forum's...
NZ’s Te Tiriti, gangs and grocery prices – parties clash in...
By Layla Bailey-McDowell of RNZ and RNZ Digital reporters
Seven political parties have gone head to head in TVNZ's Kaupapa Māori Debate, clashing over Te...
Tracy Campbell: Democracy, Israeli-style: Bring your gun to the polling station
COMMENTARY: By Tracy Campbell
Palestinian-Israelis are entitled to vote -- sort of.
Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right coalition partners apparently considered this an alarming development.
So alarming,...
Activists still targeted over Indonesian forest fires and in West Papua,...
Asia Pacific Report
A new human rights report has rated civic space in Indonesia under President Prabowo Subianto rated as "obstructed".
Human rights groups have documented...
Pacific Elders’ Voice calls for reversal of Forum partnership with Israel
RNZ Pacific reporters
The Pacific Elders' Voice has called for the Pacific Islands Forum to review and reverse its partnership agreement with Israel.
The group of...
West New Britain governor speaks out about raskols as 12 killed...
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea's West New Britain province Governor Sasindran Muthuvel says the public is deeply frustrated with repeated armed...
UN puts media giants on notice over Gaza as journalists’ death...
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has released a blistering report on media complicity in war crimes as Israelis headed to the polls. Michael West...
Why Palestinian citizens of Israel can vote, but can’t expect any...
COMMENTARY: By Mohamad Kadan
For the majority of Israelis, the general election today is a choice between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the forces that...
PSNA calls on NZ to expel Israeli ambassador after 95-year-old Palestinian...
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand's oldest and largest Palestine solidarity movement today called on political parties to press for "immediate expulsion" of Israeli Ambassdor Alon...
‘Strengthening ties’ or ‘shameful’? – why Israel’s new Pacific status is...
By Kelvin Anthony of RNZ Pacific
Israel's inclusion into the Pacific region's main political body has drawn sharply contrasting reactions across the region.
While the official...
New Zealand election: Where political parties stand on Pasifika issues
By Christina Persico of RNZ Pacific
Early voting has opened for the general election in Aotearoa New Zealand.
New Zealand uses MMP, mixed member proportional representation....













































