Modern Slavery in New Zealand: What’s Next?
Modern slavery is happening in Aotearoa. The University of Auckland hosts a panel examining legislation, supply chains and NZ’s global responsibilities.
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Open letter to Fijians – ‘why is our country supporting Israel’s heinous crimes in Gaza?’
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.
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Green Party’s Swarbrick calls for urgent NZ action over Israel’s ‘crazy’ Gaza slaughter
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.
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Commonwealth takes bold step to protect freedom of expression
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and the Commonwealth Journalists’ Association called on states to take practical and effective steps to end arbitrary and excessive restrictions on free expression.
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1000 protest in Auckland over Israel’s war on Gaza, honour Nakba victims
About 1000 people in Aotearoa New Zealand gathered for a two-hour rally in central Auckland today and marched down Queen Street and returned to Aotea Square to mark the Nakba three days early — and protest over Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
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Palestine protesters stage Gaza ‘die-in’ as leaders call for step up in boycotts
A score of Palestine solidarity protesters draped themselves in white shrouds with mock blood in a sombre “die-in” demonstration at Te Komitanga Square — the heart of Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city — on Sunday as speakers urged people to take a stronger boycott against Israeli products.
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Behind the war on Gaza – how Israel profits globally from repression
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.
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MSG snubs golden chance to reset peace and justice for West Papua
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.
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Vila-based Indonesian ‘troll’ page targets Papuan advocates
As part of an Indonesian-backed disinformation and troll campaign against West Papuan pro-independence activists, a Facebook page has emerged making bitter and slanderous attacks on campaigners, Papuan exiles and media people in the Pacific region.
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‘Terror’ bomb explodes near Papua journalist Victor Mambor’s home
David Robie also blogs at Café Pacific: A veteran journalist known for covering rights abuses in Indonesia’s militarised Papua region says a bomb exploded outside his home yesterday and a journalists group has called it an act of “intimidation” threatening press freedom.