Tag: United Nations
‘Genocide as colonial erasure – UN expert Francesca Albanese on Israel’s...
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...
Another Palestinian journalist killed in Gaza as Israel ‘suffocates the truth’
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...
‘Outrageous’, ‘intolerable’, ‘dangerous precedent’ – world condemns Israel’s UNRWA ban
Asia Pacific Report
The United Nations and countries across the globe have denounced Israel after its Parliament -- the Knesset -- overwhelmingly passed two laws...
PM defends Fiji’s UN ‘ambush’ vote – challenged by human rights...
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...
Prabowo takes power as Indonesian military set up new battalions – what...
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"...
Bring France into decolonisation talks, French Polynesian president tells UN
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...
West Papuan independence advocate seeks NZ support against ‘genocide, ecocide’
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 talks to journalist David Robie on Pacific decolonisation issues
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...
Indonesia accused of subverting Pacific push for UN rights mission to...
By Stefan Armbruster, Victor Mambor and BenarNews staff
An unheralded visit to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces by a leading Pacific diplomat has drawn criticism for undermining...
Pacific churches call at UN for France to drop ‘limbo law’...
Asia Pacific Report
The Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) has called on France to drop the "limbo" proposed law on electoral changes in Kanaky New...
Global outrage continues over Israeli defiance of World Court Rafah order
Asia Pacific Report
International outrage continues to reverberate as Israel ignores the International Court of Justice's order to immediately cease its attack on southern Rafah,...
Fiji abstains from new UN vote on Palestinian membership bid
Asia Pacific Report
The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to grant Palestine new rights and privileges, calling on the Security Council to reconsider its...
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...