Keep fighting for a nuclear-free Pacific, Helen Clark warns Greenpeace over...
Asia Pacific Report
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark warned activists and campaigners in a speech on the deck of the Greenpeace environmental flagship...
PSNA calls on NZ to urgently condemn Israeli weaponisation of starvation
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has called on the New Zealand government to immediately condemn Israel's weaponisation of starvation and demand an...
Pacific leaders demand respectful involvement in memorial for unmarked graves
By Mary Afemata, of PMN News and RNZ Pacific
Porirua City Council is set to create a memorial for more than 1800 former patients of...
Cook Islanders flock from outer islands for 60th anniversary celebrations
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
The Cook Islands' outer islands, or Pa Enua, are emptying as people make the pilgrimage to Rarotonga for constitution...
Is the international community finally speaking up about Israel’s Gaza genocide?
Al Jazeera
International public opinion continues to turn against Israel for its war on Gaza, with more governments slowly beginning to reflect those voices and...
Palestine solidarity rally greeted by Rainbow Warrior Gaza protest
Asia Pacific Report
Palestinian supporters and protesters against the 21 months of Israeli genocide in Gaza marched after a rally in downtown Auckland today across...
ICE deportation action lands Marshallese, Micronesians in Guantánamo ‘terror’ base
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal/RNZ Pacific correspondent
United States immigration and deportation enforcement continues to ramp up, impacting on Marshallese and Micronesians in...
Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative
COMMENTARY: By Refaat Ibrahim
"If words shape our consciousness, then the media holds the keys to minds."
This sentence is not merely a metaphor, but a...
Palestine Action – terrorists or the real heroes of our time?
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Nobody has a bad word to say about the French Resistance in the Second World War, right? Who would criticise a...
Flying the flags for Palestine – NZ protesters take message to...
The Devonport Flagstaff
About 200 people marched in Devonport last Saturday in support of Palestine.
Pro-Palestine flags and placards were draped on the band rotunda at...
Police protection for New Caledonian politicians following death threats
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonian politicians who inked their commitment to a deal with France last weekend will be...
12 countries agree to confront Israel collectively over Gaza after Bogotá...
ANALYSIS: By Mick Hall
Collective measures to confront Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people have been agreed by 12 nations after an emergency summit of...
Susi Newborn among activists featured in Pacific ‘nuclear free heroes’ video
Pacific Media Watch
Greenpeace pioneer and activist Susi Newborn is among the "nuclear free heroes" featured in a video tribute premiered this week in an...
David Robie: New Zealand must do more for Pacific and confront...
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific Waves presenter/producer, and Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor
The New Zealand government needs to do more for its Pacific...
First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’
Occupied West Bank-based New Zealand journalist Cole Martin asks who are the peacemakers?
BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin
As a Kiwi journalist living in the occupied...
Bougainville election: More than 400 candidates vie for parliament
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
More than 400 candidates have put their hands up to contest the Bougainville general election in September, hoping...
UN expert advocates peacekeeper path to break Israel’s siege on Gaza
COMMENTARY: By Bruce King
Almost two months ago, a UN special rapporteur, Dr Michael Fakhri, penned an opinion article in The Guardian newspaper warning that...
Fiji govt offers NZ$1.5m settlement to former anti-corruption head for ruined...
By Margot Staunton, RNZ Pacific senior reporter
The Fiji government looks set to pay around NZ$1.5 million in damages to the disgraced former head of...
Australian bid to criminalise Palestine support creates ‘hierarchy of racism’, says...
Pacific Media Watch
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has called on the New Zealand government to not follow Australia’s policy moves which would effectively criminalise...
Luxon and Peters to miss Cook Islands’ 60th Constitution Day celebrations
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
New Zealand will not send top government representation to the Cook Islands for its 60th Constitution Day celebrations in...
Israeli settlers beat to death 2 Palestinians in latest lynchings
BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin in occupied West Bank
Two young Palestinians were beaten to death on their land by Israeli settlers in the occupied...
New Caledonia’s political parties commit to ‘historic’ statehood deal
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's pro-and-anti-independence parties have committed to an "historic" deal over the future political status of...