Tag: United Nations
UN to vote over reviving Palestine’s bid for membership as Biden...
Pacific Media Watch
The United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote later today on a resolution that would grant new “rights and privileges” to...
Fiji’s position over Israeli war on Gaza – international blunder or...
SPECIAL REPORT: By Richard Naidu, editor of Islands Business
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been described...
PSNA’s Minto slams Peters over ‘bluster’ speech on Gaza at UN
Asia Pacific Report
The leader of a New Zealand solidarity group of Palestinian self-determination supporters has accused the country's Foreign Minister Winston Peters of making...
NZ’s Peters criticises Security Council at UN, says Gaza ‘a wasteland’
RNZ News
New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has told the United Nations the situation in Gaza is an "utter catastrophe" and criticised the...
West Papuan wounds of suffering – diplomatic pressure on Indonesia needed...
COMMENTARY: By Ronny Kareni
Recent videos depicting the barbaric torture of an indigenous Papuan man by Indonesian soldiers have opened the wounds of West Papua's...
Wenda condemns ‘sadistic brutality’ of Indonesian torture of Papuan – calls...
Asia Pacific Report
A West Papuan pro-independence leader has condemned the "sadistic brutality" of Indonesian soldiers in a torture video and called for an urgent...
DAWN calls on UN to set up global protection force for...
Asia Pacific Report
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) should act urgently to establish an international protection force to safeguard Palestinian civilians and ensure...
Talks over NZ hostage pilot release stalled by ‘third party’, say...
Jubi News
Negotiations for the release of New Zealand pilot Phillip Mark Mehrtens, who has been held captive by the West Papua National Liberation Army...
Muslim Americans decry Biden’s support for Gaza ‘genocide’ – Palestinian envoy...
Palestine's UN envoy Riyad Mansour speaking at the International Court of Justice on Monday. Video: Dawn News
Pacific Media Watch
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)...
John Minto: Why are Israeli attacks on UNRWA so much more...
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Unfortunately there was no discussion of foreign policy during Aotearoa New Zealand's general election last year. Aside from the odd obligatory...
NZ legally obliged to step up and speak out after World...
New Zealand’s commitment to the international rule of law means it must also go beyond the UN court’s genocide case findings on Gaza, writes...
Amnesty chief calls UNRWA funding cuts ‘heartless’, ‘sickening’
Asia Pacific Report
Agnes Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International, has called the funding cuts to the UN's Palestinian humanitarian relief agency a “heartless...
Palestinian agency condemns funding cuts as ‘ collective punishment’
Asia Pacific Report
Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has joined a chorus of global development and political figures defending the United Nations "lifeline"...
Wenda calls on Euro politicians to sign Brussels Declaration on West...
Asia Pacific Report
A leading West Papuan advocate has welcomed this week's launch of the Brussels Declaration in the European Parliament, calling on MPs to...
Israel blows up last university in Gaza as air strikes continue...
By Laura Pollock
Gaza's last standing university has been destroyed by the Israeli army as military continued to strike targets in areas of the besieged...
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel over Gaza ‘chilling’ in detail
Asia Pacific Report
South Africa has accused Israel of "genocidal intent" over its war on the besieged enclave Gaza Strip, and pleaded with judges at...
Israel-Gaza conflict: NZ govt providing $5m towards humanitarian aid
RNZ News
The New Zealand government is putting $5 million to address urgent humanitarian needs in Gaza, Israel and the occupied West Bank.
The initial contribution...
Israel-Gaza crisis: NZ must condemn atrocities but keep pushing for a...
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato
It was perhaps inevitable that the shock Hamas attack on Israel would become a minor election sideshow in...
Fiji marks 53rd anniversary with a message of ‘unity in diversity’
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist
Fiji independence day celebrations -- "Fiji Day" -- this week was a jovial occasion with thousands of flag waving...
John Minto: A prime minister with Gaza ‘blood on his hands’
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
Aotearoa New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is correct to condemn Hamas killing Israeli civilians in its attacks on Israel this...
Chinese ‘miracle water’ grifters infiltrated UN, bribed politicians to build Pacific...
By Aubrey Belford, Kevin G. Hall and Martin Young
A pair of Chinese scam artists wanted to turn a radiation-soaked Pacific atoll into a future...
Sogavare hails ‘new approach’ on West Papua – Wale calls PM...
By Charley Piringi in Honiara
The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) has adopted a "fresh approach" in addressing the longstanding and sensitive West Papuan issue, claims...