Tag: Protest
NZ arms company building linked to Gaza genocide, claim peace activists
SPECIAL REPORT: By Saige England
Peace activists who scaled the roof an an international weapons company operating from Christchurch yesterday say the company links New...
Activists scale NZ building in protest against global weapons company
By Kate Green , RNZ News reporter
Protesters have scaled the building of an international weapons company in Rolleston, Christchurch, in resistance to it establishing...
Palestine asks ICJ for advisory opinion on illegal occupier Israel’s obligations
Asia Pacific Report
The State of Palestine has submitted a written plea to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) asking it for an advisory opinion...
Cook Islanders march in Avarua against Mark Brown government
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist, in Avarua, Rarotonga
More than 400 people have taken to the streets to protest against Cook Islands Prime Minister...
Protesters condemn Fiji ‘complicity, silence’ over Israel’s Gaza genocide
Asia Pacific Report
A Fiji solidarity group for the Palestinians has accused the Rabuka-led coalition government of "complicity" in Israel's genocide and relentless war on...
Hīkoi day 8: Te Pāti Māori co-leader speaks of ‘sense of...
RNZ News
ACT leader David Seymour has spoken out on Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke's haka in Parliament as a Hīkoi against his controversial Treaty Principles Bill converges...
Biden hails ‘press freedom, democracy’ but ignores Gaza media death toll...
Pacific Media Watch
US President Joe Biden has spoken at the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner in Washington in spite of protests over alleged "complicity"...
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...
USP strike on the cards after council blocks staff papers in...
By Apenisa Waqairadovu in Suva
The Association of the University of the South Pacific Staff (AUSPS) will now make necessary submissions to go on a...
Israel-Palestine conflict: Auckland Museum apologises over light display
RNZ News
Auckland Museum has apologised for the hurt caused after it staged a light display in support of Israel on Sunday night.
Auckland Museum lit...
Pro-Palestine supporters call on Auckland Museum to apologise over lights fiasco
Asia Pacific Report
A peace researcher and other pro-Palestinian supporters are calling on Auckland Museum to apologise over a furore about the "unethical" lighting of...
NZ Parliament protest: Hundreds march, extra police on patrol
RNZ News
Hundreds of protesters have marched to Aotearoa New Zealand's Parliament in Wellington today, where streets were closed and the precinct blocked off in...
20 people wounded in Indonesian police crackdown on Papua protest
Asia Pacific Report
At least 20 people were wounded when police used batons, water cannon and tear gas to disperse hundreds of people who joined...
‘We’re not primitives’ says UPNG student protest over foreign minister’s ‘disrespect’
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent
Students at the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) marched to Parliament House in in the capital Port...
Australian advocacy group condemns Indonesian crackdown on Papuan ‘democracy’ rally in...
Asia Pacific Report
The Australia West Papua Association has condemned an Indonesian crackdown on a peaceful Papua self-determination rally in Bali at the weekend after...
‘Not my king’: do we have the right to protest the...
ANALYSIS: By Maria O'Sullivan, Monash University
During the present period of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II, public sensitivities in the United Kingdom and Australia are...
Refusing to rule out working with Brian Tamaki, Luxon gives NZ’s...
ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw, Massey University
The final act in this week’s protest on the lawns of Parliament was the announcement by Destiny Church leader...
No arrests as ‘freedom’ protest winds up peacefully outside NZ’s Parliament
RNZ News
New Zealand police praised how an anti-government protest at Parliament unfolded today, saying there were no arrests and no trespass orders issued.
Police estimated...
Indonesia’s new plans for Papua can’t hide its decades of failures
ANALYSIS: By Aprila Wayar and Johnny Blades for The Diplomat
A plan to create three new provinces in the Papua region highlights how Jakarta’s development...
Thugs attack student rally in Makassar against Papuan ‘carve up’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
A protest action by Papuan students which took place in the South Sulawesi provincial capital of Makassar, which was opposing the...
PNG police brand Mt Hagen airport sabotage as ‘act of terrorism’
By Thierry Lepani and Miriam Zarriga in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea
The ugly side of Papua New Guinean elections has shown its face in...
Yamin Kogoya: Fatal disconnect between Jakarta and West Papua worsens settler-colonial...
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya
A flurry of peaceful rallies and protests erupted in West Papua and Indonesia on Friday, June 3.
Papuan People's Petition (PRP), the...