Tag: USA

By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Pacific nations and smaller states are being urged to unite to avoid being caught in the crossfire of...

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...

COMMENTARY: Jewish Voice for Peace The UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza on Monday -- and for the first...

By Kalinga Seneviratne in Davao, Philippines After being elected to the presidency in a landslide vote in June 2016, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte visited China...

Asia Pacific Report Te Kuaka, an independent foreign policy advocacy group with a strong focus on the Pacific, has called for urgent changes to the...

By Jessica Corbett The Elders chair Mary Robinson has highlighted the unique leverage that the United States has with Israel and called on the Biden...

Pacific Media Watch The United States' airdrops of aid into Gaza are a textbook case of cognitive dissonance on the part of the US administration...

ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin Papua New Guinea and Indonesia have formally ratified a defence agreement a decade after its initial signing. PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko...

Asia Pacific Report About 5000 protesters calling for an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israeli's genocidal  war on Gaza today took part in a...

Pacific Media Watch The International Court of Justice (ICC) has held its last day of hearings examining the legality of Israel's decades-long occupation of Palestinian...

By Lawrence Fong of the PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea and Australia created another piece of history yesterday when James Marape became the first international...

Asia Pacific Report About 200 protesters marched through the heart of Auckland's tourist suburb of Devonport today to the Royal New Zealand Navy base, accusing...

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"...

COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone The International Court of Justice rejected Israel’s request to dismiss the genocide case brought against it by South Africa yesterday, ruling...

ANALYSIS: By Trita Parsi The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled against Israel and determined that South Africa successfully argued that Israel’s conduct plausibly...

Asia Pacific Report Although the International Court of Justice (ICJ) did not directly issue an order for a ceasefire in Gaza, says a leading Israeli...

Asia Pacific Report The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to take steps to prevent acts of genocide in South Africa's case over...

RNZ News New Zealand's defence minister has defended a decision to send six NZ Defence Force staff to the Middle East to help "take out"...

Asia Pacific Report A group of foreign policy critics alarmed at the Aotearoa New Zealand government’s "undemocratic decision" to step up support for US-led strikes...

ANALYSIS: By Samer Jaber For two months now, the United States and other Western countries backing Israel have been talking about “the day after” in...