New Zealand condemned for failing to make ICJ humanitarian case...
Asia Pacific Report
The advocacy group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned the New Zealand government fpr failing to make a humanitarian submission to the...
Dark money: Labor and Liberal join forces in attacks on Teals...
Teals and Greens are under political attack from a new pro-fossil fuel, pro-Israel astroturfing group, adding to the onslaught by far-right lobbyists Advance Australia...
NZ doctors defend nationwide strike action over recruitment
By Ruth Hill, RNZ News reporter
Striking senior New Zealand doctors have hit back at the Health Minister's attack on their union for "forcing" patients...
Gallery: Doctors, health workers challenge NZ government over national crisis
Asia Pacific Report
Thousands of senior hospital doctors and specialists walked off the job today for an unprecedented 24-hour strike in protest over stalled contract...
Amid Dutton’s ‘hate media’ and Trump’s despotism, press freedom is more...
COMMENTARY: By Alexandra Wake
Despite all the political machinations and hate towards the media coming from the president of the United States, I always thought...
Inaccurate 1News reporting on football violence breached broadcasting standards, rules BSA
Broadcasting Standards Authority
New Zealand's Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has upheld complaints about two 1News reports relating to violence around a football match in Amsterdam...
On ‘moral panic’ and the courage to speak – the West’s...
Palestinians do not have the luxury to allow Western moral panic to have its say or impact. Not caving in to this panic is...
Greenpeace slams deep sea mining bid as ‘rogue’ disregard for global...
By Reza Azam
Greenpeace has condemned an announcement by The Metals Company to submit the first application to commercially mine the seabed.
"The first application to...
50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to...
Part Three of a three-part Solidarity series
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
30 April 1975. Saigon Fell, Vietnam Rose. The story of Vietnam after the US fled...
Māori leaders urge UN to act stronger on NZ’s ‘regressive’ policies
By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson in New York
Claire Charters, an expert in indigenous rights in international and constitutional law, has told the United Nations the...
French Minister Valls warns New Caledonia is ‘on a tightrope’, pleads...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Minister for Overseas Manuel Valls, who is visiting New Caledonia this week for the third...
Tarakinikini appointed as Fiji’s ambassador-designate to Israel
By Anish Chand in Suva
Filipo Tarakinikini has been appointed as Fiji’s Ambassador-designate to Israel.
This has been stated on two official X, formerly Twitter, handle...
Israel accused at ICJ of using aid as ‘weapons of war’...
By Sondos Asem in The Hague, Netherlands
The International Court of Justice began hearings today into Israel's obligations towards the presence and activities of the...
Vanuatu communities growing climate resilience in wake of Cyclone Lola
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor, and Christina Persico, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor
Communities in Vanuatu are learning to grow climate resilient crops, 18 months...
PodTalk.live ushers in new ‘indie’ information and debate era
PodTalk.live
After a successful beta-launch this month, PodTalk.live has now called for people to register as foundation members -- it's free to join the post...
Trump’s war on the media: 10 numbers from US President’s first...
Reporters Without Borders
Donald Trump campaigned for the White House by unleashing a nearly endless barrage of insults against journalists and news outlets.
He repeatedly threatened to...
Homage paid to Pope Francis at NZ street theatre rally for...
Asia Pacific Report
Activists for Palestine paid homage to Pope Francis in Aotearoa New Zealand today for his humility, care for marginalised in the world,...
How to fight Trump’s cyber dystopia with community, self-determination, care and...
COMMENTARY: By Mandy Henk
When the US Embassy knocked on my door in late 2024, I was both pleased and more than a little suspicious.
I'd...
Samoan nun tells of ‘like a blur’ awesome meeting with Pope...
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific presenter
The doors of St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican have now been closed and the coffin sealed, ahead of...
Israel’s endgame for tormented Gaza is political and physical erasure
COMMENTARY: By Nour Odeh
There was faint hope that efforts to achieve a ceasefire deal in Gaza would succeed. That hope is now all but...
Trump signs ‘deeply dangerous’ order to fast-track deep sea mining
RNZ Pacific
An ocean conservation non-profit has condemned the United States President's latest executive order aimed at boosting the deep sea mining industry.
President Donald Trump...
Pacific editor welcomes US court ruling in favour of Radio Free...
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
The former head of BenarNews' Pacific bureau says a United States court ruling this week ordering the US Agency...