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    • "I stand against genocide" placard at a Stop Wars protest in Auckland's Aotea Square last month
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      Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists

      "Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"
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      Julien Blondel’s face . . . bloodied but unbowed
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      After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing

      PINA president Kalafi Moala addresses the Media Council of Papua New Guinea
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      Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index

      Kidnapped protesters Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila
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      Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention

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President Joko Widodo buys traditional noken
Human Rights

Activists say Jokowi’s West Papua visit only to bolster image –...

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Rappler's Maria Ressa and Russia's Dmitry Muratovvideo
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Rappler’s Maria Ressa, Russia’s Dmitry Muratov win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize

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October 8, 2021
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NZ's Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins
Coronavirus

Northland added to NZ’s alert level 3 tonight over ‘uncooperative’ case

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October 8, 2021
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Scott Waide
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Scott Waide: Memo to our younger people – go out to...

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NZ Medical Council chair Dr Curtis Walker
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Medical Council has ‘zero tolerance’ for NZ anti-vax advice – 44...

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Gavi Vaccine Aliance health workers
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‘Get vaccinated before it gets you’ plea from PNG anti-vaxxer champ

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October 8, 2021
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NFP's Dr Biman Prasad
Coronavirus

Bainimarama’s covid bragging rebuked as ‘shameful and despicable’ by Prasad

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October 8, 2021
0
Stuff's "The Whole Truth"
Coronavirus

Stuff’s independent covid-19 fact guide – ‘The whole truth’

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October 8, 2021
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Campaigner and MP Theonila Roka Matbob
Bougainville

Panguna campaigner Theonila Matbob wins award over Rio Tinto challenge

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Vaccination clinic
Coronavirus

Effective NZ vaccination campaigns ‘must include’ Māori, Pacific leaders

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October 7, 2021
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Police question Brother Frater Anton Syufi
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Police arrest spectator at Papua Games for wearing Morning Star T-shirt

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October 7, 2021
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Vaccination rates must keep climbing in NZ
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NZ’s covid-zero strategy may be past its use-by date, but it...

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October 7, 2021
0
NZ Herald 270921
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Gavin Ellis: Lockdown musings over media lessons from a pandemic

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October 7, 2021
0
Papuans arrested and blindfolded in an Indonesian military crackdown in Maybrat Sept 2021
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Indonesian Games ‘held on bones of Papuans’, accuses Benny Wenda

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October 6, 2021
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Minister Chris Hipkins and Dr Caroline McElnay
Coronavirus

NZ plans national covid ‘action day’ push to boost vaccinated numbers

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October 6, 2021
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South Seas CEO Silao Vaisola-Sefo
Coronavirus

Thousands of youth get jab at NZ Pasifika community event

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"The Neglected Genocide" report
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NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
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October 5, 2021
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Pandora Papers
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Pandora Papers: Mystery names hold bulk of Philippine-linked offshore accounts

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October 5, 2021
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Sorong road repairs
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Damaged Papuan road rush repair after two years for Jokowi’s visit

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Papuans welcome Indonesian Games torch
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Papua region hosts Indonesia’s national games amid rise in independence struggle

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CLIMATE AND COVID

Pacific verdict on COP29
Climate

COP29: Pacific climate advocates decry outcome as ‘a catastrophic failure’

A protester at COP29 calls on wealthy nations to "pay up"
Asia Report

COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail...

In the Eye of the Storm
Analysis

Strings attached: The reality behind NZ’s climate aid in the Pacific

Pacific Climate Warriors
Analysis

How Pacific environmental defenders are coping with the covid pandemic

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CORONAVIRUS

Senator Robert F Kennedy Jr
Coronavirus

Sir Collin Tukuitonga criticises RFK Jr’s measles claims, slams health misinformation

According to WHO, Western Pacific measles cases jumped by 225 percent
Coronavirus

Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO

Labour's former broadcasting minister Willie Jackson
Coronavirus

Former broadcast minister defends NZ journalism fund, state-funded media independence

1News political editor Jessica Mutch-McKay talks to the main party leaders in last night's debate
Analysis

NZ election 2023: Exposing National leader Christopher Luxon’s Māori health falsehood...

Practices like mask wearing and self-isolation should be encouraged for all
Coronavirus

NZ’s covid-19 mandates end: GP group says some mask-wearing, self-isolation still...

The 2021 post-covid Pacific media freedom panel discussion participants
Coronavirus

Pacific media should be supported post-covid, says PJR report

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BEARING WITNESS

Author and journalist Dr David Robie speaking at the launch of the third edition of the Rainbow Warrior book Eyes of Fire
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Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers...

Australia, the country, as a political entity, its government, its major institutions, its official voice to the world, was quiet over the Gaza genocide
Analysis

Ignoring genocide – the bill for Australia’s silence has arrived

"I am worried about the implications of any law that bans a chant by exiled people"
Analysis

Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...

West Papua's Morning Star flag of independence
Asia Report

27 years after Biak massacre in West Papua, human rights crisis...

Eyes of Fire: The Last Voyage and Legacy of the Rainbow Warrior
Bearing Witness

Eyewitness account of Rainbow Warrior voyage – new Eyes of Fire...

Sawana Village on Fiji's Vanua Balavu island was partly destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016
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Not up for debate: Fijian journalists in the climate crisis response

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Fijian iTaukei leaders discuss contemporary issues, such as women's representation in Fijian society
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Fijian journalists use talanoa and tradition to find their voice

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Online abusers ‘shaming, silencing’ Fiji women journalists, say researchers

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Islands Business: ‘Big picture’ style journalism is the future for...

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"I stand against genocide" placard at a Stop Wars protest in Auckland's Aotea Square last month
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Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists

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PINA president Kalafi Moala addresses the Media Council of Papua New Guinea
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Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index

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Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention

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"I stand against genocide" placard at a Stop Wars protest in Auckland's Aotea Square last month

Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists

May 5, 2026
"Without cartoonists, power goes unchecked"

Pacific political caricatures: Why criticising a leader’s actions isn’t a personal...

May 5, 2026
Julien Blondel’s face . . . bloodied but unbowed

After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing

May 4, 2026
PINA president Kalafi Moala addresses the Media Council of Papua New Guinea

Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index

May 4, 2026
Kidnapped protesters Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Ávila

Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention

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