Tag: UN Charter
Greenland and Western hypocrisy over the rules-based international order
COMMENTARY: By John Menadue
Western leaders defend the rules-based international order when it suits them, but remain largely silent as those same rules are breached...
Climate change and human rights demands telling our Pacific stories with...
ANALYSIS: By Dr Satyendra Prasad
Internationally, we are marking the 2025 Human Rights Day at a time of extraordinary retreat from human rights protection across...
US attack on Venezuela ‘clearly illegal’ under UN charter, says former...
RNZ News
There is no doubt that Donald Trump's attack on Venezuela was illegal, former prime minister and UN leader Helen Clark says.
Over the weekend,...
UN expert advocates peacekeeper path to break Israel’s siege on Gaza
COMMENTARY: By Bruce King
Almost two months ago, a UN special rapporteur, Dr Michael Fakhri, penned an opinion article in The Guardian newspaper warning that...
Ukraine a year on – how the invasion changed NZ foreign...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
One year to the day since Russian tanks ran over the Ukraine border -- and over the UN...
‘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...
Happy West Papua Day – and the brutal truth about where...
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya
On 30 June 2022, the Indonesian Parliament in Jakarta passed legislation to split West Papua into three more pieces.
The Papuan people's...




















