Tag: International law
Historic ICJ climate ruling ‘just the beginning’, says Vanuatu’s Regenvanu
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,...
ICJ climate crisis ruling: Will world’s top court back Pacific-led call...
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...
Gaza not a religious issue – it’s a massive violation of...
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...
NZ and allies condemn ‘inhumane’, ‘horrifying’ killings in Gaza and ‘drip...
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...
Is the international community finally speaking up about Israel’s Gaza genocide?
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...
Palestine Action – terrorists or the real heroes of our time?
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...
12 countries agree to confront Israel collectively over Gaza after Bogotá...
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...
First-hand view of peacemaking challenge in the ‘Holy Land’
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...
Palestine solidarity group lawyers refer NZ prime minister Luxon, 3 ministers...
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...
Why most Pacific governments stand with Israel in spite of UN...
By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist
Amid uncertainty in the Middle East, one thing remains clear -- most Pacific governments continue to align themselves with...
NZ’s Islamic Council calls on Luxon to condemn Israel over ‘unprovoked’...
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 --...
Eugene Doyle: Team Genocide and the West’s war on Iran
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...
Amnesty slams Israel for flouting international law with ‘chilling contempt’ over...
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...
Thou shalt protect Israel: The West’s first and only commandment
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...
Absurd attack on free speech by Israel Institute over social media...
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...
New Zealand condemned for failing to make ICJ humanitarian case...
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...
NZ’s Palestine Forum calls on Luxon to take ‘firm stand’ over...
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...
Swarbrick pleads for NZ cross-party support for sanctions on Israel
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...
New Zealand and Gaza: Confronting and not confronting the unspeakable
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...
Call for fresh Blue Pacific rules-based order: ‘Our home, our rules’
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...
J’accuse!… the Jew who accuses his fellow Jews of being antisemites
A rally on the steps of the Victorian Parliament under the banner of Jews for a Free Palestine was arranged for Sunday, February 9....
Ōtautahi man says family in Gaza will never leave despite US...
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...