Tag: International law

By Ezra Toara in Port Vila Vanuatu's Minister of Climate Change Adaptation, Ralph Regenvanu, has welcomed the historic International Court of Justice (ICJ) climate ruling,...

By Jamie Tahana in The Hague for RNZ Pacific In 2019, a group of law students at the University of the South Pacific, frustrated at...

Asia Pacific Report Groups that have declined to join the government-sponsored "harmony accord" signed yesterday by some Muslim and Jewish groups, say that the proposed...

RNZ News New Zealand has joined 24 other countries in calling for an end to the war in Gaza, and criticising what they call the...

Al Jazeera International public opinion continues to turn against Israel for its war on Gaza, with more governments slowly beginning to reflect those voices and...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Nobody has a bad word to say about the French Resistance in the Second World War, right?  Who would criticise a...

ANALYSIS: By Mick Hall Collective measures to confront Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people have been agreed by 12 nations after an emergency summit of...

Occupied West Bank-based New Zealand journalist Cole Martin asks who are the peacemakers? BEARING WITNESS: By Cole Martin As a Kiwi journalist living in the occupied...

Asia Pacific Report. In an unprecedented legal move in Aotearoa New Zealand, a national Palestine solidarity advocacy group has filed a referral against the prime...

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist Amid uncertainty in the Middle East, one thing remains clear -- most Pacific governments continue to align themselves with...

Asia Pacific Report The Islamic Council of New Zealand (ICONZ) has protested over Israel's "unprovoked military strikes" against Iran, killing at least 80 people --...

COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle I have visited Iran twice. Once in June 1980 to witness an unprecedented event: the world’s first Islamic Revolution. It was...

Asia Pacific Report Amnesty International secretary-general Agnès Callamard has condemned Israel's interception and detention of the 12 crew members aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla’s humanitarian...

COMMENTARY: By Daniel Lindley As I sit down to write this article, I’m reading another update on the Israeli army killing 27 more starving Palestinian...

By Gordon Campbell The calls by the Israel Institute of New Zealand for Peter Davis to resign from the Helen Clark Foundation because of comments...

Asia Pacific Report The advocacy group Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa has condemned the New Zealand government fpr failing to make a humanitarian submission to the...

Asia Pacific Report A Palestinian advocacy group has called on NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Minister Winston Peters to take a firm stand...

By Russell Palmer, RNZ News political reporter Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says the need for Aotearoa New Zealand to impose sanctions against Israel has...

ANALYSIS: By Robert Patman New Zealand's National-led coalition government’s policy on Gaza seems caught between a desire for a two-state diplomatic solution to the Israeli-Palestinian...

COMMENTARY: By Sione Tekiteki and Joel Nilon Ongoing wars and conflict around the world expose how international law and norms can be co-opted. With the...

A rally on the steps of the Victorian Parliament under the banner of Jews for a Free Palestine was arranged for Sunday, February 9....

By Rachel Helyer Donaldson, RNZ News journalist A Palestinian man living in Aotearoa New Zealand who has lost 55 relatives in three Israeli airstrikes on...