Tag: human rights
Rising Tide climate crisis ‘Protestival’ to go ahead despite court ruling
The NSW Supreme Court has issued orders prohibiting a major climate protest that would blockade ships entering the world’s largest coal port in Newcastle...
Filep Karma – a political prisoner who fought racism in West Papua
SPECIAL REPORT: By Andreas Harsono in Jakarta
In December 2008, I visited Abepura prison in Jayapura, West Papua, to verify a report sent to the...
Caitlin Johnstone: On human rights, ‘friendly’ war crimes and Western hypocrisy
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
The death toll has risen to 12 from Israel’s terror attack in Lebanon on Tuesday which detonated explosive materials hidden in...
Ilan Pappé: To end Gaza genocide, uproot the source of all violence – Zionism
Since the arrival of Zionism in Palestine, the impulse of the Palestinians has not been about violence or revenge. The impulse remains the return...
Caitlin Johnstone: Julian Assange is free, but justice has not been done
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
Julian Assange is free. He is en route to Australia after appearing in court in Saipan, capital of Northern Mariana Islands,...
Media fuss over stranded tourists, but Kanaks face existential struggle
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle
“Only the struggle counts . . . death is nothing.” Éloi Machoro — “the Che Guevara of the Pacific” — said...