Human Rights News: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on May 9, 2025.
MIL-Evening Report: Fiji media’s Stan Simpson blasts ‘hypocrites’ in social media clash over press freedom
Pacific Media Watch Barely hours after being guest speaker at the University of the South Pacific‘s annual World Press Freedom Day event this week, Fiji media industry stalwart Stanley Simpson was forced to fend off local trolls whom he described as “hypocrites”. “Attacked by both the Fiji Labour Party and ex-FijiFirst MPs in just one […]
MIL-Evening Report: NZ Māori Council, PSNA appeal for urgent action over Gaza starvation
Asia Pacific Report The New Zealand Māori Council and Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa made a high profile appeal to Foreign Minister Winston Peters over Gaza today, calling for urgent action over humanitarian supplies for the besieged Palestinian enclave. “Starving a civilian population is a clear breach of international humanitarian law and a war crime under […]