Tag: UN Decolonisation Committee

Asia Pacific Report Louis Kotra Uregei, an emblematic and radical figure in the independence struggle in New Caledonia, has died aged 71, announced the Union...

RNZ Pacific French Polynesia's pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira party says France's refusal to engage in any UN-supervised decolonisation process is becoming increasingly untenable. In 2013, the UN...

RNZ Pacific Delegates from French Polynesia have flown to New York for the annual meeting of the UN Decolonisation Committee. The veteran pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru...

RNZ Pacific New Caledonia's pro-independence Palika party has joined the Caledonian Union in rejecting talks in Paris announced by the French Interior Ministry. The ministry called...

RNZ Pacific An indigenous legal challenge in a bid to annul the result of last December's referendum on New Caledonia's independence from France has failed. The...

By Walter Zweifel, RNZ French Pacific reporter The Kanak people will not accept France's attempt to "recolonise" New Caledonia, a pro-independence delegate has told the...

RNZ Pacific A New Caledonian member of the French National Assembly says a consensus needs to be found on Kanaky New Caledonia's future statute after...

ANALYSIS: By Ena Manuireva The unfolding in French Polynesia of the latest judiciary entanglements of pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru versus the French administration is being...

By RNZ News The campaign for New Caledonia's referendum on independence from France is already officially three days old with the critical vote in less...

Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Pacific Conference of Churches has called for justice in Mā'ohi (French Polynesia) and for Oscar Temaru, the activist mayor...

By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila Former Vanuatu Prime Minister and the country's first Roving Ambassador, Barak Sope, has expressed his personal tribute to the...