The New Zealand government backs the French Pacific territories becoming full members of the Pacific Islands Forum, reports Radio New Zealand International. The director of...

The Asian Human Rights Commission has learned from national and local sources that on May 2 police officers arrested in total 1724 indigenous Papuans...

Dr Shailendra Singh is head of journalism at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. This was his address to the World Press Freedom...

The report of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission on its "shadow" human rights fact-finding mission to West Papua this year has found no...

By Len Garae in Port Vila A West Papuan delegation has come to a regional civil society forum with a single goal in mind -...

New Zealand’s Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy gave this opening address at the Ethnic Communities Engagement Summit at Auckland University of Technology at...

Indonesian police in West Papua have arrested 1692 people in the region in the past six days, reports Suara Papua news website citing West...

Indonesian security forces and police have arrested hundreds of Papuan demonstrators during rallies today in support of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua...

Reports of massive arrests #liveupdatesPapua The Australia West Papua Association has called on Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop to condemn the arrests of peaceful demonstrators...

By Anita Roberts in Port Vila Vanuatu's Prime Minister Charlot Salwai has instructed Infrastructure Minister Jotham Napat to negotiate the second phase of the Chinese-funded...

The 2015 Roger Award for the “worst transnational corporation operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand” has been awarded to the international IAG/State Insurance conglomerate, the organisers...

By Ati Nurbaiti in Jakarta A national symposium on the Indonesian bloodshed of 1965 has brought together the persecuted, the persecutors and their respective families. Seating...

Organisers were delighted with the success of the first of three national Ethnic Communities Engagement summit in Auckland on Saturday - and the role...

By Allison Penjueli in Suva Clearing out the backlog of customer care jobs after Cyclone Winston remains the major challenge for the Pacific's largest pay...

Indonesian security forces stage a brutal attack on a Papuan taxi driver during this earlier rally in Jayapura on 13 April 2016 - see...

Mainstream New Zealand news media were heavily criticised for "misrepresentations, sensationalism and exclusions" at the first of three national summits in Auckland today aimed...

Four human rights watchdogs have appealed to Indonesia's Minister for Politics, Law and Security Affairs to take steps to ensure that last week’s national...

By Harun Rumbarar in Jayapura Indigenous landowners from the Marap people in Arso in Papua's Keeron regency have this week invoked customary law to take...

OPINION: By Agnes Masoe As Pacific people we have a bit of a head start when it comes to professional careers like accounting – thanks...

Journalist Michael Neilson spent six weeks earlier this year at The Sydney Morning Herald in Jakarta, Indonesia. He describes his time working for the paper...

By Bob Makin and BMO News A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 earthquake struck Vanuatu about 1km off Malekula early today, seismologists...

By Jane Joshua and Len Garae  in Port Vila The Melanesian Spearhead Group Special Leaders Summit scheduled to be held in the Vanuatu capital of...