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After Gaza ceasefire, ‘massive political pressure’ needed to prevent Israel from restarting war

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: Israel’s government has approved the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal, that includes a pause in Israeli attacks and the release of the remaining hostages...

Genocide two years on: It is the West, not Gaza, that must be deradicalised

This brutal war on Palestinians has not just unleashed Israel’s demons. It has unmasked our own regimes, as...

Local journalists and fixers are dying at unprecedented rates in Gaza. Can anyone protect them?

ANALYSIS: By Simon Levett  Journalist Mariam Dagga was just 33 when she was brutally killed by an Israeli airstrike...

250+ media ‘black out’ front pages and broadcasts to protest Israeli killing of journalists in Gaza

Reporters Without Borders In an unprecedented international operation organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the global campaigning movement...

Massacre of Gaza journalists triggers RSF’s Black Monday protest today

Pacific Media Watch Today, 1 September 2025, is being marked as a Black Monday following the latest deadly strikes...

Porgera mine ‘killing fields’ – 21 Papua New Guineans die since March 6

By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby The successful restart of Papua New Guinea’s New Porgera Limited gold mine is currently at high risk due to...

Vila-based Indonesian ‘troll’ page targets Papuan advocates

By David Robie As part of an Indonesian-backed disinformation and troll campaign against West Papuan pro-independence advocates, a Facebook page has emerged making bitter and...

Doc Edge abandons ‘provocative’ Israeli Embassy sponsorship for 2023 festival

By John Minto The Doc Edge Film Festival has abandoned Israeli Embassy sponsorship this year after a furore caused by such sponsorship last year. We are...

West Papuan rebels condemn NZ for ‘collusion’ with Indonesia, risks to hostage pilot safety

Jubi News in Jayapura Captured pilot Philip Mehrtens has called on the Indonesian government to stop military operations in the Nduga highlands in a bid...

Papuan church leaders call on Jokowi to stop military ops over NZ pilot

Jubi News in Jayapura Church leaders across denominations in Papua have urged President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to stop military operations and to promote a humanitarian...

PNG authorities try to quell unrest after 16 prisoners on run shot dead

RNZ Pacific A curfew has been imposed in part of Papua New Guinea and extra police have been moved in to quell unrest over the...