Tag: genocide
New Zealand can learn from South Africa, The Gambia and others...
ANALYSIS: By Karen Scott, University of Canterbury
In 2023, the world witnessed a sustained attack on the very foundations of the international legal order.
Russia, a...
Fiji human rights activists pay tribute to slain Gaza journalists, but...
Pacific Media Watch
Fiji human rights activists have paid tribute in a Suva vigil this week to the more than 100 journalists -- most of...
Peace doesn’t come by trying to bludgeon the Middle East into...
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
The US has carried out another air raid on Yemen, with targets reportedly including the international airport in the capital city...
Israel’s ‘illogical’ legal defence off to weak start, says analyst Bishara
Marwan Bishara, Al Jazeera's senior political analyst, assesses Israeli defence submitted at the ICJ over South Africa's genocide allegations. Image: AJ
Pacific Media Watch
Al Jazeera’s...
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza ‘chilling’ in detail
Asia Pacific Report
South Africa has accused Israel of "genocidal intent" over its war on the besieged enclave Gaza Strip, and pleaded with judges at...
This genocide is being live-streamed. We can’t say we didn’t know
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
How is anyone still talking about October 7? What Israel has done since October 7 is many times worse than what...
Journalists need to ‘take a stand’ over the Gaza carnage after...
By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report
Reporting Israel’s war on Gaza has become the greatest credibility challenge for journalists and media of our...
Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief’s son one of two Palestinian journalists...
Pacific Media Watch
Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, has been killed along with another journalist in an Israeli air...
Why NZ should join South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Two years ago New Zealand joined 22 other countries in supporting the Ukrainian case against Russia at the International Court of...
War on Gaza: Bombed hospital a turning point? Hegemonic security v...
ANALYSIS: By Marwan Bishara
The Israeli bombing of the Baptist hospital in Gaza killing hundreds of innocent Palestinians may have been a turning point in...
Donna Miles: We can condemn the Hamas attacks and Israel’s occupation
An Israeli air strike has hit Al Ahli hospital in Gaza City where thousands of civilians are seeking medical treatment and shelter from relentless...
John Minto: A shameful NZ response to genocide of Palestinians in...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The Aotearoa New Zealand government announcement of $5 million in humanitarian aid to “Israel, Gaza and the West Bank” is a...
Big Auckland rally shows solidarity with Palestine over ‘genocidal’ war
Asia Pacific Report
About 2000 people from Aotearoa New Zealand communities, including many families, staged a vibrant rally in Auckland's Aotea Square and marched down...
Genocidal language being used to justify a massive death toll on...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The tragic events in Israel/Palestine these past few days have highlighted the absolute failure of Western governments like New Zealand to...
OPM leader calls on Biden to take proactive role in ending...
Asia Pacific Report
Free Papua Organisation (OPM) leader Jeffrey Bomanak has appealed to US President Joe Biden for a “proactive role” in ending Indonesia’s “unlawful...
Oceania Indigenous ‘guardians’ call for self-determination on West Papua day
OPEN LETTER: The Ōtepoti Declaration by the Indigenous Caucus of the Nuclear Connections Across Oceania Conference
On the 61st anniversary of the first raising of...
Dealing with a ‘bloody messy’ world – the urgent foreign policy...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
Since Jacinda Ardern described the state of world affairs as “bloody messy” earlier this year there have been...
The NZ anti-vax movement’s exploitation of Holocaust imagery is part of...
ANALYSIS: By Giacomo Lichtner, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
During the anti-lockdown protests at Parliament last year, I was told about a...
Wenda condemns Indonesia’s UN genocide vote for Papua ‘hypocrisy’
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
An exiled West Papuan leader has condemned Indonesian for "hypocrisy" in speaking out about Myanmar and Palestine while voting at the...
Yamin Kogoya: Why Indonesian trade expo deception won’t win Pacific hearts...
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya in Auckland
More than 50 years of "torture" has been inflicted on the Papuan people by the Indonesian government. With the...
RSF hails freedom for Myanmar journalists as investigative victory
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has praised the release of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from a prison in...
Concern growing in Indonesia over Rohingya ‘genocide’ crisis
By Ryan Dagur and Katharina R. Lestari in Jakarta
There is rising concern in majority Muslim Indonesia that the treatment being meted out to ethnic...