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February 4, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Pacific protesters were prominent in the 17th week of Aotearoa New Zealand solidarity demonstrations for Palestine and a ceasefire in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in Auckland today. Flags of Fiji, Tonga and West Papua were featured alongside the sea of Palestinian banners and at least one group declared themselves as “Tongans ... <a title="Pacific protesters feature in NZ demo against Israel’s war on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/04/pacific-protesters-feature-in-nz-demo-against-israels-war-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific protesters feature in NZ demo against Israel’s war on Gaza">Read more</a>
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February 3, 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand must ramp up pressure on Israel to abide by last month’s International Court of Justice ruling, writes John Minto. COMMENTARY: By John Minto In 2003, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s “apartheid wall” being built through Palestinian territory was a violation of international law and should be dismantled. Israel ignored ... <a title="Pressure must go on Israel to comply with World Court genocide rulings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/03/pressure-must-go-on-israel-to-comply-with-world-court-genocide-rulings/" aria-label="Read more about Pressure must go on Israel to comply with World Court genocide rulings">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2024
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 the “live-saving” humanitarian aid provided by UNRWA, and it is “totally irresponsible” to cut funds to the UN agency. “Western countries, like Australia, who have suspended this aid [to UNRWA] ... <a title="Canberra ‘ignores public’ over Gaza war – UNRWA fund cuts ‘irresponsible’, says Senator" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/01/canberra-ignores-public-over-gaza-war-unrwa-fund-cuts-irresponsible-says-senator/" aria-label="Read more about Canberra ‘ignores public’ over Gaza war – UNRWA fund cuts ‘irresponsible’, says Senator">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Several democratic, progressive and socialist organisations in Indonesia and in the Melanesian region of West Papua have come together in solidarity with Palestine and formed an alliance called the People’s Movement for Palestinian Independence (GERAK Palestine). In a statement released by GERAK Palestine, the group declared full support for the Palestinian people ... <a title="Indonesian and Papuan protesters call for ‘Palestine independence’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/31/indonesian-and-papuan-protesters-call-for-palestine-independence/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian and Papuan protesters call for ‘Palestine independence’">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2024
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 was the biggest platform for getting humanitarian aid into Gaza for a populations that is 85 percent displaced. People are on the verge on starvation and going without medical supplies, ... <a title="Defunding UNRWA will cause Gazans ‘more misery and suffering’, warns former PM Clark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/30/defunding-unrwa-will-cause-gazans-more-misery-and-suffering-warns-former-pm-clark/" aria-label="Read more about Defunding UNRWA will cause Gazans ‘more misery and suffering’, warns former PM Clark">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2024
Asia Pacific Report About 500 protesters marched through the heart of Auckland’s tourist suburb of Devonport today to the Royal New Zealand Navy base, accusing the government of backing genocide in the Middle East. Demanding a “ceasefire now” in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that has killed almost 27,000 Palestinians — mostly women and children ... <a title="‘Ceasefire now’ protesters march on NZ naval base, demand Luxon upholds Israel genocide court order" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/29/ceasefire-now-protesters-march-on-nz-naval-base-demand-luxon-upholds-israel-genocide-court-order/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Ceasefire now’ protesters march on NZ naval base, demand Luxon upholds Israel genocide court order">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2024
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 decision” by some of the world’s richest countries “to punish the most vulnerable population on earth because of the alleged crimes of 12 people”. In a post on X, formerly ... <a title="Amnesty chief calls UNRWA funding cuts ‘heartless’, ‘sickening’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/29/amnesty-chief-calls-unrwa-funding-cuts-heartless-sickening/" aria-label="Read more about Amnesty chief calls UNRWA funding cuts ‘heartless’, ‘sickening’">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2024
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” for more than two million Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip enclave. Declaring New Zealand should stick to its three-year funding agreement with the UN relief agency for Palestinians (UNRWA), ... <a title="Palestinian agency condemns funding cuts as ‘ collective punishment’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/28/palestinian-agency-condemns-funding-cuts-as-collective-punishment/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinian agency condemns funding cuts as ‘ collective punishment’">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A leading West Papuan advocate has welcomed this week’s launch of the Brussels Declaration in the European Parliament, calling on MPs to sign it. “The Declaration is an important document, echoing the existing calls for a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights visit to West Papua made by the Pacific Islands Forum ... <a title="Wenda calls on Euro politicians to sign Brussels Declaration on West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/25/wenda-calls-on-euro-politicians-to-sign-brussels-declaration-on-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda calls on Euro politicians to sign Brussels Declaration on West Papua">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2024
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 against Yemen have warned against “inflaming” the Red Sea maritime crisis. They have urgently called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza as they say the Israeli war that ... <a title="NZ foreign policy critics warn over ‘inflaming’ Red Sea crisis, call for Gaza ceasefire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/nz-foreign-policy-critics-warn-over-inflaming-red-sea-crisis-call-for-gaza-ceasefire/" aria-label="Read more about NZ foreign policy critics warn over ‘inflaming’ Red Sea crisis, call for Gaza ceasefire">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2024
By Binoy Kampmark The Age has revealed the dismissal of ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf last December 20 was the nasty fruit of a campaign waged against chair Ita Buttrose and managing director David Anderson. The official reason for Lattouf’s dismissal was ordinary: she shared a post by Human Rights Watch about Israel “using starvation of civilians as a ... <a title="Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel war on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/20/cancelling-the-journalist-furore-over-abcs-coverage-of-israel-war-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel war on Gaza">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2024
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) – based in The Hague, in The Netherlands – is being asked by South Africa if the 100-day (so far) slaughter by the Government of Israel in Gaza constitutes a ‘genocide’. Thus ‘genocide’ is presented as a binary concept, in a context where there is ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Genocide as a Concept: Binary or Analogue?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/15/keith-rankin-analysis-genocide-as-a-concept-binary-or-analogue/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Genocide as a Concept: Binary or Analogue?">Read more</a>
