Tag: International law

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean Strip away the communiqués about the embattled Strait of Hormuz and look at the data, because in maritime commerce the data...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean The most important response to Trump’s Hormuz announcement did not come from Beijing, Brussels or the United Nations. It came from...

COMMENTARY: By Lim Tean The United States went to war to stop Iran charging tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. It has now imposed a...

By Qassam Muaddi On June 10, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya appeared on a screen before Israel’s Supreme Court via video link. He looked gaunt, visibly...

"No one living today ever imagined they would witness a genocide that would continue for 1000 days. Yet here we are. One thousand days...

ANALYSIS: By Shannon Bosch A recent United Nations report has detailed serious allegations of Israel deliberately targeting Palestinian children during the conflict since October 2023. The...

INTERVIEW: By Ibrahim Othman In an unprecedented move on New Zealand's political scene, the Free Palestine Party Aotearoa has been launched with the Palestinian cause...

Asia Pacific Report Greenpeace International has condemned Israeli armed forces for illegally attacking a peaceful Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters for the second...

Middle East Monitor Israel is now perceived more negatively than any other country in the world, according to new global polling published by Nira Data...

COMMENTARY: By Frances Palmer While appreciating certain points in Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s speech "Securing NZ’s Future in a more Volatile World" on current challenges...

COMMENTARY: By Chris Hedges Nothing illustrates the inversion of the international and moral order more than the genocide in Gaza and the shipment of tens...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Brett Wilkins Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has slammed European leaders -- and the West at large -- for what he...

ANALYSIS: By Eugene Doyle If Iran succeeds in extracting reparations for the damage done to it in the US-Israeli war, it will be a world...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, I’m Amy Goodman. As we continue to look at the US and Israeli war on Iran, we’re joined...

COMMENTARY: By Owen Jones Britain's Daily Telegraph is being acquired by a German-based media giant -- and now its journalists are formally expected to support...

Asia Pacific Report A group of 39 boats known as the Global Sumud Flotilla has set sail from Barcelona to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza,...

Pacific Media Watch Iran's ambassador has criticised New Zealand's failure to condemn the US and Israeli strikes on Iran as damaging the relationship between the...

OPEN LETTER: By Nureddin Abdurahman to NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters Minister, You are about to meet US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a time...

By Brett Wilkins Greenpeace International has announced that the MY Arctic Sunrise -- one of its largest vessels -- will be taking part in the...

The war in Iran is in its second month. A war started by a criminal defendant, a convicted felon, and a blackmail network that...

Asia Pacific Report New Zealand’s government was taken to task today for its lack of a principled stand against Israel’s Gaza genocide and the illegal...

The Labor government has told the Senate that Australian charities don’t have to comply with international law, nor will they be compelled. Michael West...