Tag: United Nations
COP29: Pacific takes stock of ‘baby steps’ global climate summit
By Sera Sefeti in Baku, Azerbaijan
As the curtain fell at the UN climate summit in Baku last Sunday, frustration and disappointment engulfed Pacific delegations...
‘Rogue’ states US and Israel have nothing to gain from their war on the UN
ANALYSIS: By Mohamad Elmasry
It’s ironic that the United States and its closest ally, Israel, a state born out of the horrors of the Second...
OPM’s Bomanak accuses UN of failing to uphold decolonisation role over West Papua
Asia Pacific Report
A West Papuan resistance leader has condemned the United Nations role in allowing Indonesia to “integrate” the Melanesian Pacific region in what...
Gordon Campbell: On Winston Peters’ pathetic speech at the UN
COMMENTARY: By Gordon Campbell
Good grief, Winston Peters. Tens of thousands of Gazans have been slaughtered, two million are on the brink of starvation and...
Caitlin Johnstone: Commemorating a past Holocaust while cheerleading the current one
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone
The United States and eight of its allies have suspended funding to UNRWA, the primary humanitarian agency in Gaza, following Israeli...
After 3 months of devastation in the Israel-Hamas war, is anyone ‘winning’?
ANALYSIS: By Ian Parmeter
The 19th century German war strategist and field marshal Helmuth von Moltke famously coined the aphorism “No battle plan survives first...