Tag: United Nations
Māori delegation’s Israel trip under scrutiny over funding and itinerary
Te Ao Māori News
A delegation of Māori leaders visiting Israel under the banner of "business and innovation" faces public criticism over its timing and...
A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C...
ANALYSIS: By Jacqueline Peel and Wesley Morgan
For more than a decade, the world has been trying to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
That’s no longer...
West Papua: The Pacific’s new test of Indonesia’s sovereignty narrative
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin
The 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Meeting in Koror, Palau, last week has pushed West Papua back to the centre of...
West Papua activist calls on Pacific leaders to pressure Indonesia over...
By Susana Suisuiki of RNZ Pacific
For 20 years, West Papuan activist Paula Makabory has not set foot in her ancestral homeland. Her family still...
Melanesian countries to review Indonesia’s status at MSG if no action...
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
Melanesian countries are pushing Indonesia to facilitate a long-requested visit to West Papua by the UN High Commissioner for...
West Papuan leader calls on Pacific Forum to ‘break its silence’...
Asia Pacific Report
An exiled West Papuan leader living in Australia is calling on Oceania leaders at the Pacific Island Forum meeting in Palau this...
Pacific ‘catastrophe’ awaits if nations not alert to deep sea eco...
COMMENTARY: By Kalinga Seneviratne
In the past year there has been a scramble by the big powers to secure the continuing supply of “rare minerals”...
West Papua issue likely to be on agenda in Palau, says...
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific
Papua New Guinea's Foreign Minister says he expects the issue of West Papua will be discussed at the upcoming...
Why can’t Israel be held accountable for its genocide in Gaza?...
ANALYSIS: By Robin Andersen
In a Double Down News (DDN) video report, British filmmaker Richard Sanders begins a summary of a “horrific new report” with a listing...
NZ’s shameful silence on Gaza is potentially complicity with genocide
The New Zealand government remains shamefully silent on Gaza, despite being a signatory to international agreements that oblige it to act, writes John Hobbs...
John Minto: When TVNZ’s Israeli ‘counter-terrorism’ op against Palestinians is actually...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Television New Zealand outdid itself last week.
For decades it has been a direct funnel for Israeli propaganda into our living rooms...
Israel accused of ‘buying Pacific votes’ over plan to open Nauru...
Asia Pacific Report
A New Zealand national solidarity group for Palestine has condemned plans by Nauru to open an embassy in Jerusalem as an "alarming...
NZ called on to back international law in ICC vote –...
Asia Pacific Report
The Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) wrote to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today urging the New Zealand government to vote against the...
Gaza genocide – how many UN findings will the West ignore?
"No one living today ever imagined they would witness a genocide that would continue for 1000 days. Yet here we are. One thousand days...
At the World Cup, the Western media has set up a...
COMMENTARY: By Patrick Gathara
“Why is it that African teams and Middle Eastern teams have to answer for what their governments are doing but European...
A UN report details the ‘overwhelming’ scale of children killed in...
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...
Australian media ignores UN report on Israeli deliberate killing of children
By Stephanie Tran in Sydney
The devastating United Nations report this week into the deliberate targeting and murder of Palestinian children by Israel is not...
Jale Moala: Why is the UN credible when Fiji agrees but...
COMMENTARY: By Jale Moala
It's interesting how readily many people in Fiji embrace the work of the United Nations when it supports local programmes such...
UN commissioner condemns Israeli kidnapping, detention of Brazilian flotilla activist
By Jamil Chade
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has condemned Israel, saying it has no right to detain Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila and...
Who is breaking international law in the Strait of Hormuz? It’s...
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...
Fiji defends its isolated UN stance supporting Israel
By Anish Chand in Suva
Fiji’s Ambassador to Israel, Jesoni Vitusagavulu, has defended his country’s voting record at the United Nations, saying it is guided...
Ending Israel’s war on peace – Iran’s 10-point proposal is serious
To make lasting peace in the Middle East, the US must end its blank cheque to Israel’s perpetual wars and join with the rest...



































