An Auckland property developer is involved in a company linked to carrying out deforestation in Indonesian-controlled Papua, where virgin rainforest is being bulldozed to grow palm oil plantations.

It was 2019 when a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific’s campus in Port Vila, the harbourside capital of Vanuatu, were set a challenge in their tutorial - find an innovative ...

"Shame on you Tarakinikini" . . . a placard at a weekly Black Thursday protest held by the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre in solidarity with Palestine and calling for an immediate ceasefire in Israel's ...

We’ve visited Ground Zero. Not once, but three times. But for generations, before these locations were designated as such, they were the ancestral home to the people of the Marshall Islands. As part ...

A Fiji human rights advocacy coalition has condemned Fiji’s “profoundly troubling” stance as being one of only two countries supporting continued illegal occupation by Israel of the Palestinian ...

Pacific flags -- Fiji and Tonga -- and protesters in support of Palestine at a recent rally in New Zealand's largest city Auckland . . . but both countries voted against at the UN General Assembly ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden at the White House . . . "nothing emphasises the importance of de-escalating broader tensions in the region like pledging ...

New Zealand’s controversial Treaty Principles Bill passed its first reading in Parliament today and will now go to the Justice Committee for consideration as the national Hīkoi continued its journey ...

Today marks 50 years to the day that six Pacific Islanders grouped together in central Auckland to form the Polynesian Panther Party. The party was founded on 16 June 1971 by members Will ‘Ilolahia, ...

This week, Minister of Racing Winston Peters announced the end of greyhound racing in the interests of animal welfare. Soon after, a law to criminalise killing of redundant racing dogs was passed ...

The Melanesian Spearhead Group has thrown away a golden chance for achieving a historical step towards justice and peace in West Papua by lacking the courage to accept the main Papuan ...

US sanctions on the International Criminal Court . . . New Zealand is refusing to join in criticising President Trump along with two other Five Eyes countries -- the UK and Canada -- as well as ...