Tag: Human rights violations

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Renee Good, like many Palestinians before her, died because authoritarian forces decided she did not deserve to live, and because the entire legal and...

Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan advocacy group has condemned Indonesia over taking up the presidency of the United Nations Human Rights Council, saying it...

OPEN QUESTION: By Bryan Bruce Dear Rt Hon Winston Peters, There was a time when New Zealanders stood up for what was morally right. There are...

Asia Pacific Report An escalation in fighting between Indonesian security forces and Papuan pro-independence fighters in West Papua has seriously threatened the security of the...

By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist A West Papua independence leader says escalating violence is forcing indigenous Papuans to flee their ancestral lands. It comes as...

Asia Pacific Report The Aotearoa Philippines Solidarity national assembly has condemned the National Party-led Coalition government in New Zealand over signing a "deplorable" visiting forces...

Asia Pacific Report A researcher says the Israeli prison system aims to subjugate the Palestinian people as rallies across the West Bank marked Prisoners' Day...

By Christine Rovoi of PMN News A human rights group in Aotearoa New Zealand has welcomed support from several Pacific island nations for West Papua,...

Israel says President Donald Trump green lit a scorched-earth bombing of Gaza that wiped out entire families and killed dozens of infants and other...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Watching footage of Palestinian parliamentarian and hostage Khalida Jarrar emerge from Israeli captivity was jarring -- a far, muffled cry from...

Asia Pacific Report A global civil society watchdog has condemned Fiji for blocking protest marches over the Palestine genocide by Israel and clamping down on...

Asia Pacific Report Amnesty International officials at a rally in Auckland today doubled down on their global report this week accusing Israel of genocide and...

Asia Pacific Report The Fiji NGO Coalition on Human Rights and other protesters took to the streets of Fiji's capital Suva yesterday in a rare...