Palestinian journalists treated like ‘robots’ by Western media, says Gaza reporter...
Pacific Media Watch
An Al Jazeera journalist who has documented Israel's trail of atrocities for almost the past two years has condemned Western news agencies...
Photojournalist resigns from Reuters over its ‘betrayal of journalists’ in Gaza
By Asiye Latife Yilmaz in Istanbul
Canadian photojournalist Valerie Zink has resigned after eight years with Reuters, criticising the news agency’s stance on Gaza as...
French PM’s confidence vote hits New Caledonia’s political negotiations
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Prime Minister François Bayrou's surprise announcement yesterday that he will call for a parliamentary confidence...
‘All destroyed’: Fire engulfs Marshall Islands parliament complex
RNZ Pacific
Fire engulfed the Marshall Islands Nitijela (Parliament building) just after midnight on last night with firefighters risking their lives as they battled the...
Media analyst slams Israeli killing of five Gaza journalists – calls...
Pacific Media Watch
A media studies analyst has condemned the latest deadly attack by Israel on journalists in Gaza and challenged Western media over the...
Why the International Criminal Court is under attack – it must...
COMMENTARY: By Greg Barns
If it were China or Russia, the imposition of sanctions and threats of harm to prosecutors and judges of the International...
Gearing up for the 2025 Samoan general election – three-way split?
COMMENTARY: By Asofou So'o
Although seven political parties have officially registered to contest Samoa’s general election this Friday, three have been politically visible through their...
NZ’s Christopher Luxon condemns Israel’s West Bank settlement plan
RNZ News
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is condemning Israel's E1 settlement plan for the occupied West Bank, despite New Zealand not signing a joint statement...
200,000 plus march in Australia to demand Canberra sanctions Israel, ends...
By Pip Hinman and Alex Bainbridge of Green Left
More than 200,000 people took the streets across Australia on Saturday in a national day of...
Bombs fail to silence West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor
By Alifereti Sakiasi in Suva
West Papuan journalist Victor Mambor has vowed not to be silenced despite years of threats, harassment and even a bomb...
FLNKS snubs Nouméa constitutional reform talks for New Caledonia
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
A newly established "drafting committee" held its inaugural meeting in Nouméa this week, aiming to translate...
Asia-Pacific activists ready to set sail with largest-ever Gaza aid flotilla
Two New Zealand Palestinians, Rana Hamida and Youssef Sammour, left Auckland today to join the massive new Global Sumud Flotilla determined to break Israel's...
Is Israel becoming the nightmare prophecy it was meant to escape?
COMMENTARY: By Richard David Hames
So here we are, 2025, and Israel has finally achieved what no terrorist group, no hostile neighbour, no antisemitic tyrant...
Rallies across NZ honour Gaza Strip journalists, condemn own news media
Pacific Media Watch
Three media commentators addressed the 98th week of New Zealand solidarity rallies for Palestine in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland today, criticising the quality...
Facing up to genocide – a New Zealand journalist bears witness...
SPECIAL REPORT: By David Robie
Protesters in their thousands have been taking to the streets in Aotearoa New Zealand demonstrating in solidarity with Palestine and...
Activist slams Pacific’s ‘dreadful response’ to Palestine amid growing links with...
By 'Alakihihifo Vailala of Pacific Media Network
As Israel expands its relationships with Pacific Island nations, an activist is criticising the region for its “dreadful...
West Papuan media plea for Melanesian support against Indonesian media blackout
By Andrew Mathieson
Exiled West Papuan media are calling for Fiji -- in a reflection of Melanesian solidarity -- to hold the greater Pacific region...
NZ joins calls for urgent, independent foreign media access to Gaza
RNZ News
New Zealand has joined more than two dozen other countries to call for "immediate and independent" foreign media access to Gaza.
Earlier this month,...
Nuclear-free Pacific advocates speak out in NZ human rights radio show
Pacific Media Watch
“Speak Up Kōrerotia” -- a radio show centred on human rights issues -- has featured a nuclear-free Pacific and other issues in...
NZ police chief acknowledges impact of criminal deportees on Pacific
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand's police commissioner says he understands the potential impact the country's criminal deportees have on smaller Pacific Island nations.
Commissioner Richard Chambers' comments...