Tag: Indigenous
New Zealand’s role in helping bring peace to Kanaky New Caledonia
COMMENTARY: By Teanau Tuiono
There is an important story to be told behind the story Aotearoa New Zealand's mainstream media has been reporting on in...
Pacific state of Hawai’i first in US to pass dual Gaza...
Asia Pacific Report
The Pacific state of Hawai'i’s House of Representatives has joined the state’s Senate in calling for a ceasefire in Israel's war on...
Indigenous rights flag-burning protest rocks CNMI community
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent
A man on Saipan has burned the official CNMI flag in protest, saying that...
Yamin Kogoya: Rev Yoman’s message of hope and prayers for the...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) is like a big house or boat, says Reverend Dr Ambirek G....
Yamin Kogoya: ‘Rebuilding our Melanesia for our future’ – culture and...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya
"Rebuilding our Melanesia for our future" is the theme chosen by the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) for their 7th Melanesian...
Kanaky New Caledonia’s FLNKS wants ICJ advice on contested vote
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter
New Caledonia's pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) says the advice of the International Court of Justice...
NZ boosts support for ‘grassroots’ climate action in Solomon Islands
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist
The New Zealand government has committed $15 million to support Solomon Islands provincial administrations to strengthen climate resilience at...
Lessons from peace activists – and action is up to the...
REVIEW: By Heather Devere
The aims of Peace Action: Struggles for a Decolonised and Demilitarised Oceania and East Asia as stated by the editor, Valerie...
Police probe fire after Vanuatu chiefs’ cultural ‘nakamal’ burns down
RNZ Pacific
The headquarters of the Malvatumauri of National Council of Chiefs of Vanuatu has burned down.
The fire broke out about 1am Monday local time.
Police...
PNG military chief warns troops to ‘shape up or ship out’
PNG Post-Courier
Papua New Guinea Defence Force commander Major-General Mark Goina has issued a warning to all serving members of the PNGDF to "shape up...
Will Fiji’s 2022 hotly contested elections further cement democracy?
ANALYSIS: By Shailendra Singh of the University of the South Pacific
In Fiji’s politically charged context, national elections are historically a risky period. Since the...
Parliament protest: What the cameras in the crowd witnessed
SPECIAL REPORT: By Rituraj Sapkota of Māori Television
“I have never had that fear before that I might get physically hurt,” says Patrice Allen, a...
‘Protect Papuan women and children – not kill them’, security forces...
By Yance Wenda in Jayapura
Deputy chair Debora Mote of the Papuan People’s Assembly (MRP) says the Indonesian state's security forces should be protecting indigenous...
Papuan pro-independence activist Yeimo to stand trial next week
By Ronna Nirmala in Jakarta
A pro-independence activist in Indonesia’s Papua province will stand trial next week on charges of treason, says his lawyer.
A day...
Papuans join Vanuatu in mourning death of ‘freedom’ Pastor Allen Nafuki
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
West Papuans have joined the people of Vanuatu in mourning the loss of independence and human rights campaigner Pastor Allen Nafuki...
Waititi to wear his ‘Māori business attire’ back to NZ’s Parliament
By RNZ News
New Zealand's parliamentary Speaker has offered an olive branch to Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi over his refusal to wear a tie...
Iwi Chairs forum urges covid cap on NZ-bound travel, faster vaccine...
By Te Aorewa Rolleston, RNZ News Te Ao Māori affairs
The National iwi chairs forum has put forward six recommendations to the New Zealand government...
Indigenous peoples in Indonesia still struggle for equality after 75 years
By Fidelis Eka Satriastanti, The Conversation
Indigenous people fought alongside youth movements in the creation of an Indonesian nation. But, in the historical writing of...
The call of Ihumātao: Migrant communities standing with Māori
By Michael Andrew
The occupation at Ihumātao is a spectacle of flags.
In every direction they flutter. Alongside tino rangatiratanga - the Māori flag of independence,...
Indigenous Pacific knowledge to help save the ocean
By RNZ Pacific
Indigenous Pacific knowledge should inform the science to save the world's oceans.
That was the consensus among Pacific ocean scientists and other regional...
Koori Mail’s ‘Uncle Russell’ was a dedicated Indigenous voice
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
The Koori Mail, after awaiting permission from the Kapeen family, has announced with great sadness the sudden passing of Koori Mail...
‘NZ is waking up to our … spectrum of colours’, says...
Journalist Sri Krishnamurthi's video interview with Alistar Kata.
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Alistar Kata is uniquely placed to talk about diversity in New Zealand media newsrooms.
Not...