Tag: International Court of Justice
Court acquits Tahitian politician Oscar Temaru in anti-nuclear radio case
RNZ Pacific
The Appeal Court in French Polynesia has acquitted the pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru and two others in the case of the funding of...
RSF condemns Israel’s ‘scandalous impunity’ over killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
Reporters Without Borders
One year after Al Jazeera’s well known Palestine correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot while reporting in the West Bank on...
‘Frustrated’ USP law students were catalyst for landmark UN climate vote
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Suva
There was euphoria at the campus of the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Suva in Fiji last Thursday...
Vanuatu hails ‘historic resolution’ in climate battle on the world stage
By Barbara Dreaver in Port Vila
Vanuatu is in celebration mode after winning a significant battle on the world stage over climate change.
In a United...
UN adopts Vanuatu-led resolution in ‘epic win’ on climate change
RNZ Pacific
The UN General Assembly has adopted a Vanuatu-led resolution calling for an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on climate...
Brij Lal’s tribute to Jai Ram Reddy – ‘a true son...
OBITUARY: By Dr Brij Lal
Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear Full many a floww’r is...
NZ should show real solidarity with the Pacific by embracing climate...
COMMENTARY: By Prue Taylor in Auckland
From 1949 to 1996 more than 300 nuclear devices were detonated in the Pacific. In the mid-1990s a generation...
Branding armed Papuan resistance as ‘terrorists’ angers rights groups, sparks media...
By David Robie
Branding armed Papuan resistance groups as “terrorists” has sparked strong condemnation from human rights groups across Indonesia and in West Papua, some...
Resolution of human rights violation cases in Papua ‘has deteriorated’
By Benny Mawel in Jayapura
The enforcement of human rights and the resolution of various cases of human rights violations in Papua in 2020 has...
Marshall Islands v Big Nuclear – will Pacific people get the...
By Jen Maman
In April 2014, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, a tiny island country part of Micronesia, filed groundbreaking lawsuits to the International...