Tag: Humanitarian aid
Israel-Gaza conflict: NZ govt providing $5m towards humanitarian aid
RNZ News
The New Zealand government is putting $5 million to address urgent humanitarian needs in Gaza, Israel and the occupied West Bank.
The initial contribution...
Anger over failure of sirens to go off as wildfire swept...
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist
As recovery and humanitarian efforts ramp up in Hawai'i's Maui to help evacuees from the town of Lāhainā, there...
Solidarity medical aid convoy breaches blockade and says: ‘Gaza isn’t alone’
Dr Essam Youssef visits the ambulance in Gaza sponsored by Freedom Flotilla Campaigns. The ambulance is used by the Benevolent Society for People with...
NZ aid worker remains missing in Ukraine – the tragedy of...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
The humanitarian aid worker Andrew Bagshaw, who has dual New Zealand and British citizenship, has been missing in...
Helen Clark condemns Taliban ban on female foreign aid workers
RNZ Pacific
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark is supporting aid agencies' decision to halt operations in Afghanistan, and a UN official has urged...
‘The time has come’, says Zelensky in fresh appeal to NZ...
RNZ News
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered an address to New Zealand's Parliament today and the government has pledged an additional $3 million of humanitarian...
Few NZ personnel fighting in Ukraine, says former defence minister
RNZ News
Former Defence Minister Ron Mark of Aotearoa New Zealand says there is only a small number of citizens fighting in Ukraine.
The NZ Defence...
‘No 8 wire mentality’ used in New Zealand aid effort in...
RNZ News
A New Zealand aid worker in Kyiv says the ReliefAid group he leads was one of the first to provide food in the...
Ukraine war: Green Party says NZ’s $5m funding better for ‘saving...
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor
The Green Party says New Zealand has put its relationship with the NATO security alliance ahead of...