Tag: United Nations

Asia Pacific Report The UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, has called on “medical professionals worldwide” to suspend...

COMMENTARY: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report With the door now shut on 2024, many will heave a sigh of relief and hope...

By Talaia Mika of the Cook Islands News The Cook Islands will not pursue membership in the United Nations and the Commonwealth due to its...

COMMENTARY: By Katrina Mitchell-Kouttab As 2024 came to a close and we have stepped into a new year overshadowed by ongoing atrocities, have you stopped...

Asia Pacific Report A global civil society watchdog has condemned Fiji for blocking protest marches over the Palestine genocide by Israel and clamping down on...

By Craig Ashworth, Local Democracy Reporter New Plymouth has admitted it has investments in companies active in illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land, contrary...

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Pro-independence Kanak leader Christian Téin will remain in a mainland French jail for the time being,...

Asia Pacific Report A Fiji solidarity group for the Palestinians has accused the Rabuka-led coalition government of "complicity" in Israel's genocide and relentless war on...

Asia Pacific Report Palestinian diaspora poets, singers and musicians gathered today with solidarity partners from Aotearoa New Zealand, African nations -- including South Africa --...

Pacific Media Watch A community broadcaster in Aotearoa New Zealand has appealed for an end to the "sadistic cruelty" and the "out in the open...

By Kate Green , RNZ News reporter A new carbon credit trading deal reached in the final hours of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, has been...

Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We turn to Israel’s war on Gaza. A special UN...

Asia Pacific Report Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has rejected media reports that it has pulled out of mediation efforts between Israel and Hamas but added that...

Asia Pacific Report The national chair of one of New Zealand's leading pro-Palestine advocacy groups has condemned New Zealand over remaining "totally silent" over Israeli...

Democracy Now! NERMEEN SHAIKH: Israel’s deadly siege on northern Gaza has entered a 30th day. Early week, the World Health Organisation managed to deliver some...

Pacific Media Watch Another Palestinian journalist, Bilal Rajab, of al-Quds al-Youm TV channel, has been killed in an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, confirms...

Asia Pacific Report The United Nations and countries across the globe have denounced Israel after its Parliament -- the Knesset -- overwhelmingly passed two laws...

Pacific Media Watch Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has "cleared the air" with the Fijian diaspora in Samoa over Fiji’s vote against the United Nations resolution...

ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin In the lead up to the inauguration of President Prabowo Subianto last Sunday, Indonesia established five "Vulnerable Area Buffer Infantry Battalions"...

By Stefan Armbruster 0f BenarNews French Polynesia’s president and civil society leaders have called on the United Nations to bring France to the negotiating table...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Te Aniwaniwa Paterson of Te Ao Māori News West Papuan independence advocate Octovianus Mote is in Aotearoa New Zealand to win support...

PANG Media The PANG media team at this month's Pacific International Media Conference in Fiji caught up with independent journalist, author and educator Dr David...