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 ...

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 ...

"No to neocolonialism" is the message from Christian Téin of the protest field group CCAT and thousands of protesters in Nouméa. Image: APR screenshot ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific ...

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.

The University of the South Pacific (USP) is at the heart of a global legal victory with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivering a historic opinion last week affirming that states have ...

PSNA co-chairs John Minto and Maher Nazzal say the referral “carefully outlines a case that six NZ individuals should be investigated” by the ICC Office of the Prosecutor for their knowing ...

The Pacific year ahead . . . incoming US President Trump (clockwise from top left), elections, earthquake recovery, and PNG's 50th anniversary of independence celebrations. Image: BenarNews montage - ...

Fiji’s coalition government has come under scrutiny over allegations of human rights violations. Speaking at the commemoration of International Human Rights Day in Suva on Tuesday, the chair of the ...

The Sunday Graphic's 1953 Royal Tour Picture Album ... "The tour seems to have been a strange affair, a tour of places rarely visited by royalty alongside some more important, but equally far-flung ...

"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 ...

Fires from the 24-hour spate of looting, rioting and mayhem in Papua New Guinea’s Port Moresby — the worst ever social unrest in the city — have all but subsided into skeletal remains of ash and ...

On 1 December each year, in cities across Australia and New Zealand, a small group of West Papuan immigrants and refugees and their supporters raise a flag called the Morning Star in an act that ...