Tag: Kanaky New Caledonia independence
French President Macron yet to sign-off on Pacific leaders bid to...
RNZ Pacific
The French Ambassador to the Pacific says President Emmanuel Macron is yet to sign-off on a letter from the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)...
Fiji, PNG fail to secure UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s...
By Stefan Armbruster, Harlyne Joku and Tria Dianti
No progress has been made in sending a UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces despite...
New Zealand urged to take bolder stand over New Caledonia’s third...
RNZ Pacific
New Zealand should join others in calling New Caledonia's third independence referendum invalid, one of the founders of the Kanaky Aotearoa Solidarity Network...
From Kanaky to Palestine, how Paris is weaponising deportations from Pacific
In the West Bank, one in three Palestinians has experienced one or more incarcerations during their life since 1967, or 35 percent of the...
NZ’s Winston Peters calls for ‘more diplomacy, engagement, compromise’ in New...
RNZ Pacific
The Pacific Island Forum could serve as a "constructive force" to find a "path forward" in Kanaky New Caledonia, New Zealand Foreign Affairs...
Kanaky New Caledonia crisis: Kanak lawyer warns ‘separatism’ will worsen inequalities
By Margot Staunton, RNZ senior journalist and Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor
A Kanak political commentator in Aotearoa New Zealand says calls to separate New...
New riot vehicle shipment arrives for police, firemen in New Caledonia
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
More armoured vehicles and firetrucks have been delivered for Kanaky New Caledonia's security forces, including police...
‘Frontline Media Faultlines’ – David Robie’s keynote address to Pacific Media...
The Australia Today
Here is the livestream of Dr David Robie’s keynote address “Frontline Media Faultlines: How Critical Journalism Can Survive Against the Odds” at...
A surprising litmus test for Kanaky New Caledonia’s independence parties
ANALYSIS: By Denise Fisher
The voters in the second round of France’s national elections last weekend staved off an expected shift to the far-right. But...
Fiji protesters call for freedom and justice in the Pacific –...
Asia Pacific Report
The Fiji NGO Coalition on Human Rights and other protesters took to the streets of Fiji's capital Suva yesterday in a rare...
Death toll in Kanaky New Caledonia unrest reaches 10
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Riots in Kanaky New Caledonia claimed their 10th victim yesterday.
The death took place as a result...
French elections: First round of Pacific results show polarisation
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
French Pacific results for the first round of French national snap elections yesterday showed a firm...
New Caledonia votes first under tight security in French snap election
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Voters in New Caledonia will go to the polls this weekend under tight security, almost eight...
French envoy hits back at Vanuatu’s Kanak solidarity march petition
By Nicholas Mwai in Port Vila
French Ambassador Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer to Vanuatu has hit back at criticism about French policy over Kanaky New Caledonia...
Fresh violence flares up in New Caledonia – 38 arrested
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
Fresh violence has erupted in several parts of New Caledonia over the past three days, with...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Shock over pro-independence leader charges, transfer to...
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
A group of pro-independence leaders charged with allegedly organising protests that turned into violent unrest in...
‘Stop the violence, killing against Kanaks’ plea by Vanuatu MPs
Vanuatu Daily Post
All eight Members of Parliament from Vanuatu's Tafea Province have made a bold and powerful call to French President Emmanuel Macron to...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘Everything is negotiable, except independence’
By Mong Palatino of Global Voices
The situation has remained tense in the French Pacific territory of Kanaky New Caledonia more than a month after...
‘We cannot have peace without independence,’ says Kanak govt official
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
As New Caledonia passes the one-month mark since violent and deadly clashes erupted on last month, there has been...
Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Pro-independence militant leaders arrested
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's security forces have arrested eight people believed to be involved in the organisation of...
French police raid pro-independence Kanak party HQ, arrest eight in crackdown
Asia Pacific Report
French police and gendarmes force were deployed around the political headquarters of the pro-independence Caledonian Union in Kanaky New Caledonia's Nouméa suburb...
Kanaky, Palestine and West Papua – ‘same struggle’, David Robie talks...
Pacific Media Watch
Earthwise presenters Lois and Martin Griffiths of Plains FM96.9 radio talk to Dr David Robie, a New Zealand author, independent journalist and...