About 20 pro-Palestinian protesters have picketed New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) office in Auckland, demanding a stronger stance by the government against the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza and for an immediate ceasefire.
About 200 protesters marched through the heart of Auckland’s tourist suburb of Devonport on Monday to the Royal New Zealand Navy base, accusing the government of backing genocide in the Middle East.
A Palestinian advocate has appealed to the New Zealand government to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to back the South African genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
From Pacific Media Watch at Asia Pacific Report: Fiji human rights activists have paid tribute in a Suva vigil to the more than 100 journalists — most of them Palestinian — killed in Israel’s War on Gaza.
Reporting Israel’s war on Gaza has become the greatest credibility challenge for journalists and media of our times. The latest assassination of an Al Jazeera photojournalist while documenting atrocities has prompted a leading analyst to appeal to global journalists to “take a stand” to protect the profession.
Just months before the outbreak of the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza after the deadly assault on southern Israel by Hamas resistance fighters, Australian investigative journalist and researcher Antony Loewenstein published an extraordinarily timely book, The Palestine Laboratory.
Prime Minister James Marape has made two foreign policy gaffes in the space of a week that may come back to bite him as Papua New Guinea prepares for its 48th anniversary of independence this Saturday.
The Melanesian Spearhead Group has thrown away a golden chance for achieving a historical step towards justice and peace in West Papua by lacking the courage to accept the main Papuan self-determination advocacy movement as full members.
Research on climate crisis as the new target for disinformation peddlers, governance and the media, China’s growing communication influence, and journalism training strategies feature strongly in the latest Pacific Journalism Review.
Advocates and defenders of a nuclear-free Pacific have condemned the AUKUS military pact and warned New Zealand that the agreement would make the world “more dangerous” and should not join.