Tag: Protests
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...
Gavin Ellis: Copycat media abuse from ragtag bag of protesters
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis
It is common practice for journalists to share contact details and locations in hostile environments such as war zones. Something is...
Omicron spread: ‘Crazy’ shortfall in booster numbers worries top NZ covid-19...
RNZ News
The one million New Zealanders who are so far delaying getting their booster shots are the biggest concern of top covid-19 adviser Sir...
NZ parliament covid protesters ‘not interested in engaging’, says Ardern
RNZ News
"Go home and take your children" -- that was New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's plea to protesters remaining at Parliament today.
Despite being...
Right to protest lost for those who ‘threaten, harass and disrupt’,...
RNZ News
New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson has warned that although people have a right to protest when "they threaten, harass and disrupt...
Defiant Sogavare vows he will not resign in wake of riots
By Robert Iroga in Honiara
A defiant Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has vowed tonight that he will not resign and will defend Solomon Islands democracy...
Buildings burned in looting after Solomon Islands protest
RNZ Pacific
A police station and several shops were set on fire by looters in Solomon Islands today after what started in the morning as...