Tag: Protests
Ahluwalia reappointed as USP’s VC in spite of protests, strike threat
By Vijay Narayan in Suva
The University of the South Pacific Council has reappointed Professor Pal Ahluwalia as vice-chancellor and president amid two days of...
Pro-Palestinian protesters blockade Port of Auckland, call for boycott of Israel...
RNZ News
Six people have been arrested in a New Zealand a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the Port of Auckland, police say.
Dozens of people blocked the...
‘The ocean is suffering’ – protesters fume over NZ silence on...
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist
Japan yesterday began the decades-long release of more than one million tonnes of treated nuclear wastewater into the Pacific...
Obituary: Meraia Taufa Vakatale – Fiji anti-nuclear activist and feminist trailblazer
By Asenaca Uluiviti and Sadhana Sen
Fiji recently lost Dr Meraia Taufa Vakatale, a monumental woman leader who broke many glass ceilings with her numerous...
Rainbow Warrior sails Pacific seeking evidence for World Court climate case
By Sera Sefeti in Suva
International environmental campaign group Greenpeace’s flagship Rainbow Warrior is currently sailing across the Pacific, calling at ports and collecting evidence...
Anti-nuclear movements need to return to table, says FANG activist
By Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist
Securing a nuclear-free region has been a long battle for the Pacific.
After the Second World War, the United States,...
7000 protesters demand funding for Catholic schools in New Caledonia
RNZ Pacific
Thousands of people have marched in Noumea protesting in support of New Caledonia's Catholic schools, which are struggling to keep operating.
An estimated 7000...
‘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...
Amnesty calls on Jakarta to free West Papuan activist Victor Yeimo
RNZ Pacific
Amnesty International is calling on Indonesia to release West Papua National Committee (KNPB) international spokesperson Victor Yeimo.
Yeimo was sentenced on Friday to eight...
Hundreds in protest against Hauraki Gulf bottom trawling dangers
By James Hita of Greenpeace
A flotilla of crafts surrounding a massive "ban bottom trawling" banner protested off Auckland's Mission Bay today against bottom trawling...
Peter Lusk: Reflections on my mahi with peace researcher Owen Wilkes
The Owen Wilkes book Peacemonger, edited by May Bass and Mark Derby, was due to be launched in Wellington today after earlier launches in...
This is more sinister than you think – my people’s freedom...
By Veronica Koman in Sydney
As an Indonesian lawyer living in exile in Australia, I find it deeply troubling that the changes to the Indonesian...
Academic warns of more hostage crises as ‘revolution’ unfolds in Iran
RNZ News
An academic says hostage diplomacy is a well-known tactic of the Iranian regime and New Zealanders should not go to the country.
Topher Richwhite...
Morning Star flag protester in West Papua dies of mystery illness
RNZ Pacific
One of eight West Papuan activists who raised the banned Morning Star flag of independence in a protest last December has died.
Zode Hilapok's...
Papuan protesters warn Jakarta – ‘don’t criminalise’ Governor Enembe
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya
Papuan protesters from seven customary regions this week stormed the Mako Brimob police headquarters in Kota Raja, Jayapura, accusing the KPK...
Public health ‘patriot’ protesters march onto central Auckland streets
RNZ News
Protesters blocked roads in central Auckland this afternoon for the second time in two weeks, marching past the main entrance to the city's...
Papua People’s Petition protesters hold rallies against new Papuan provinces
By Reiner Brabar in Jayapura
Papua People's Petition (PRP) protesters have braved brutal police blockades, forced dispersals and assaults while staging simultaneous mass actions across...
Disgruntled PNG voters destroy ballot boxes, set fire to voting papers
PNG Post-Courier
Angry voters in East Sepik and Hela have destroyed ballot boxes and set fire to ballot papers after finding that their names were...
Civil group appeals to Jokowi to cancel Papuan expansion plan to...
Tabloid Jubi
The Civil Organisations Solidarity for Papua Land has condemned Indonesia's Papua expansion plan of forming three new provinces risks causing new social conflicts.
And...
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...
The extremism visible at NZ’s Parliament protest has been growing for...
ANALYSIS: By Paul Spoonley, Massey University
It has been interesting to watch media and public commentators come to the realisation -- sometimes slowly -- that...
Nick Rockel: Flower children and neo-Nazis, don’t hold the capital to...
COMMENTARY: Open letter by Nick Rockel to the Parliament protesters.
So the Parliament protest goes on, the first protest I can recall having absolutely no...