Tag: Human rights violations
Fiji police question protesters over picket against opening of Israel embassy
Fijivillage News
A protest led by the Fiji Women's Crisis Centre was held at their office today -- located opposite FHL Tower where the new...
‘He’s Māori!’ Hāhona Ormsby – a New Zealander in the Israeli...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle
I interviewed several of the New Zealanders who, as members of the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, were taken hostage...
Palestinian journalists from Gaza ‘treated inhumanely’ by Israeli army and Shin...
Pacific Media Watch
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has accused the Israeli army and internal security agency Shin Bet of repeatedly perpetrating inhumane acts against Palestinian...
US-built ‘torture ship’ and US funding played role in kidnapping, torture...
ANALYSIS: Global Sumud Flotilla
As testimonies from the 428 participants illegally kidnapped by the Israeli regime continue to surface, the United States critical role in...
‘Digital colonisation’ – West Papuan activist targeted in fake AI-generated reel
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific senior journalist
A West Papuan independence activist says AI-generated fake footage of her and her words has been used to...
Andy Worthington: The startling severity of Gaza flotilla activists’ rape allegations
COMMENTARY: By Andy Worthington
It’s a sign of Israel’s swaggering sense of impunity, and of the grotesque depravity at the heart of their notions of...
Flotilla activists tasered, sedated, sexually assaulted – Israeli prison service claims...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Nadda Osman
Activists freed from Israeli detention following the interception of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla have reported that they were subjected to...
Peters condemns Israeli minister over flotilla video as 3 Kiwis detained
By Niva Chittock, RNZ WorldWatch presenter/producer
New Zealand has joined international condemnation of Israel's far-right national security minister, even summoning the Israeli ambassador to convey...
Peace Action demands NZ summon Israeli ambassador over brutal action against...
Asia Pacific Report
New Zealand needs to summon Israeli ambassador to protest over the illegal and brutal treatment of Global Sumud Flotilla humanitarian aid activists...
Blame the NZ govt for ‘selective’ human rights morality, not activists
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Forough Amin in her opinion piece “The consequences of selective morality” (The Press, 28 April 2026) argues that the Palestine solidarity...
After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
Kiwi Julien Blondel’s face may be bloodied but it is unbowed. So far the New Zealand government has done nothing after...
Gaza flotilla organisers subjected to ‘extreme brutality’ in illegal Israeli detention
By Charlotte England of Novara Media
Israeli soldiers beat and tortured flotilla organisers Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Ávila after abducting them in international waters near...
Global Sumud Flotilla calls on NZ govt to intervene after Israeli...
RNZ News
The Global Sumud Flotilla is demanding the New Zealand government intervene to uphold international law, after being intercepted by Israel.
It said 22 boats...
NZer in flotilla intercepted by Israel has concussion and possible broken...
RNZ News
The wife of one of the New Zealanders in the flotilla intercepted by Israel in international waters says he has a concussion and...
Stop selling arms to Indonesia, West Papuans urge Netherlands
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific bulletin editor
The United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) has called on the Netherlands to stop selling arms to...
NZ’s $86 billion Super Fund failed to properly address human rights,...
By Keiller MacDuff, RNZ News senior reporter
The managers of the New Zealand's $86 billion Super Fund failed to properly address human rights issues when...
West Papua’s humanitarian crisis stalls Prabowo’s ‘global peacemaker’ credibility bid
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has increasingly presented himself on the international stage as a mediator and promoter of peace.
Yet this global...
Amnesty calls for independent probe of ‘shocking’ Australian police violence against...
Asia Pacific Report
Amnesty International Australia has condemned the "unnecessary and disproportionate" and "shocking" use of force by the NSW police against peaceful protesters demonstrating...
Saige England: Bearing witness – we are seeing a rise of...
COMMENTARY: By Saige England
Citizen journalists bring to our attention the truths that we need to know. Being a witness to such truths is different...
Evening star rising: Girlhood in the Aeta heartlands of the Philippines
SPECIAL REPORT: By Keeara Ofren
The lives of children will always tell the past and future of any community. My colleague Estelle and I will...
Ian Powell: Bondi Beach’s murderous terrorism aftermath – an Aotearoa perspective
COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell
On 14 December 2025, a father and son, reportedly linked to the ISIS clerical fascist organisation, committed a murderous attack on...
From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel use the same violent...
Renee Good, like many Palestinians before her, died because authoritarian forces decided she did not deserve to live, and because the entire legal and...










![Andy Worthington: The startling severity of Gaza flotilla activists’ rape allegations "The [flotilla activists] were then illegally brought to Israel to face further abuse under the watch of Itamar Ben-Gvir, the terrorist thug serving as the Minister of National Security, who caused global outrage."](https://asiapacificreport.nz/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Ben-Gvir-actists-AW-680wide-324x160.png)
























