The Fijians for Palestine Solidarity Network has condemned the Fiji government’s failure to stand up for international law and justice over the Israeli war on Gaza in their weekly Black Thursday protest.
Global press freedom organisations have condemned the killing of two journalists in Gaza this week by the Israeli armed forces while protesters in Auckland and Christchurch
have dedicated their week 77 rally and march on Palestine Land Day to their memory, declaring “Journalism is not a crime”.
Saige England reports from Christchurch Ōtautahi on the Winston Peters state of the nation address yesterday: Like a relentless ocean, wave after wave of pro-Palestinian pro-human rights protesters disrupted New Zealand deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters’ state of the nation speech at the Christchurch Town Hall.
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick has called on New Zealand government MPs to support her Member’s Bill to sanction Israel over its “crazy slaughter” of Palestinians in Gaza.
Activists in Aotearoa New Zealand marked International Women’s Day today and the start of Ramadan this week with solidarity rallies across the country, calling for justice and peace for Palestinian women and the territories occupied illegally by Israel.
By Saige England: Peace activists who scaled the roof an an international weapons company operating from Christchurch yesterday say the company links New Zealand to the deaths of children in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
From our Asia Pacific Report: In the year marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret agents and 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tested by the United States, Greenpeace is calling on Washington to comply with demands by the Marshall Islands for nuclear justice.
Pacific Media Watch: A New Zealand-based community education provider, Dark Times Academy, has had a US Embassy grant to deliver a course teaching Pacific Islands journalists about disinformation terminated after the new Trump administration took office.
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle: It generally ends badly. An old tyrant embarks on an ill-considered project that involves redrawing maps. They are heedless to wise counsel and indifferent to indigenous interests or experience. Before they fail, are killed, deposed or otherwise disposed of, these vicious old men can cause immense harm.
Decolonisation issues involving the future of Kanaky New Caledonia and West Papua –- and also in the Middle East with controversial United Nations votes by some Pacific nations in the middle of a livestreamed genocide — figured high on the agenda in 2024 along with the global climate crisis and inadequate funding rescue packages.