Tag: UNRWA

Asia Pacific Report The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to demand an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip -- but three of the...

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...

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

RNZ News New Zealand will make its annual payment of $1 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) as scheduled. Foreign Affairs Minister...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto Good slogans have people nodding their heads in agreement because they recognise an underlying truth in the words.   I have a...

RNZ News As Israel presses ahead with strikes in Rafah and seizing the Rafah crossing from Egypt, aid agencies are sounding the alarm of a...

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...

DEMOCRACY NOW! Presented by Amy Goodman AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! -- The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We turn to Gaza, where...

By Alex Bainbridge, Peter Boyle, Isaac Nellist, Jacob Andrewartha, Jordan Ellis, Alex Salmon, Stephen W Enciso and Khaled Ghannam of Green Left Thousands marched for...

COMMENTARY: By John Minto Why is Aotearoa New Zealand media so silent on the Gaza genocide happening before our eyes? Amid unreported-in-Aotearoa media stories of horrific...

Asia Pacific Report Senator and deputy leader of the Australian Greens party Mehreen Faruqi says the survival of millions of people in Gaza depends on...

RNZ News New Zealand would likely continue funding the United Nations agency delivering aid in Palestine if concerns about its staff were dealt with, the...

Asia Pacific Report Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark, who led the UN Development Programme which oversees UNRWA, told RNZ Morning Report today it...

RNZ News A New Zealander working for the UN refugee agency for Palestinians says having countries pull funding is devastating. Speaking from Geneva, Hector Sharp told...

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...

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"...

NAKBA DAY ADDRESS: By Rand Hazou Although Israelis celebrate 1948 as the birth of the Jewish nation, for Palestinians this date is referred to as...