Asian states shocked by Hamas raids but no ‘blind support’ for Israel
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Singapore
In the aftermath of Palestinian group Hamas’ terror attack inside Israel on October 7 and the Israeli state’s even...
Israel-Gaza crisis: NZ must condemn atrocities but keep pushing for a two-state solution
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie
It was perhaps inevitable that the shock Hamas attack on Israel would become a minor election sideshow in New Zealand. Less...
Operation Al Aqsa Storm: How, why and where to now in Gaza?
ANALYSIS: By Mouin Rabbani
Almost 50 years to the day after the joint Egyptian-Syrian offensive that launched the 1973 October War, Israel has once again...
John Minto: Systemic NZ misreporting on Israeli occupation of Palestine and Palestinian resistance
COMMENTARY: By John Minto
The Hamas attack on Israel yesterday has brought the usual round of systemic misreporting by New Zealand news outlets as they...
Crackdown on activists, free expression in Papua as Indonesia eyes UN Human Rights role
Asia Pacific Report
The state of civic space in Indonesia has been rated as “obstructed” in the latest CIVICUS Monitor report.
The civic space watchdog said...
France ends 10-year UN ’empty chair’ decolonisation snub over Polynesia
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre
After 10 years of non-attendance, France turned up to this week’s French Polynesia sitting of the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation...