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Life for Palestinians under Israeli military occupation
Wednesday, 20 June 2012, 2:19 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Those who rely on our mainstream news media or television and radio news for international affairs reporting would be unaware that, in the 24 hours to 18 June 2012, Palestinians were the victims of the following acts of Israeli aggression: More >>
New Zealand Month – time for straight talking
Friday, 11 May 2012, 11:26 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully's meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the planned series of top-level visits, described by Israel's Foreign Ministry as "New Zealand Month", are an opportunity ... More >>
Visting Actor Deplores Israeli Responses to Hunger Strike
Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 9:53 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Visiting Jewish Actor Miriam Margolyes Deplores Israeli Responses To Palestinian Hunger Strikers: - 1,500 to 2,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails are on a hunger strike to demand better conditions and an end to detention without trial. ... More >>
Open Letter To Murray Mccully: Support International Law
Monday, 30 April 2012, 10:48 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
The fifth-biggest UK food retailer and biggest Co-operative Group in Europe has ceased trading with suppliers that are linked to Israeli settlements. The Co-op’s decision will immediately hit four suppliers, Agrexco, Arava Export Growers, Adafresh and ... More >>
GMJ Commemorating Land Day in Palestine Begins
Friday, 30 March 2012, 10:53 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
March 30 is Land Day in Palestine and commemorates the events of 1976, when Israel seized massive quantities of Palestinian land and then killed and injured dozens of those who protested against the theft. This year on Land Day, March 30, people ... More >>
Futile posturing at the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit
Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 2:16 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
US President Barack Obama says he is pushing for "a world without nuclear weapons." Disingenuously lumping together the nuclear-armed state of North Korea and nuclear-weapon-free Iran, Mr Obama claimed that a "new international norm" was emerging to ... More >>
Justice and accountability after the Holocaust
Sunday, 29 January 2012, 6:16 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
“Justice and accountability after the Holocaust” was New Zealand's theme for its observance of United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day, 27 January 2012. Whatever else Holocaust remembrance signifies, it should be supported by a determination to ... More >>
New Zealand's abstention at UNESCO
Thursday, 3 November 2011, 4:56 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Commenting on New Zealand's abstention from voting on the Palestinian application for membership of UNESCO, Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said he would have preferred the United Nations to "make a decision on Palestine before any of ... More >>
McCully's cautious response to Palestinian appeal
Sunday, 25 September 2011, 4:15 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
The speech by Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations on 23 September received rounds of applause from most of the assembled representatives and there is a majority at the world forum in favour of Palestinian liberation. So why is our Foreign Affairs ... More >>
The PHRC on PA's UN statehood bid
Monday, 19 September 2011, 9:50 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
The Palestine Human Rights Campaign Aotearoa/New Zealand (PHRC) shares the views of many Palestinians and their supporters who are opposed to the Palestine Authority's bid for statehood recognition. More >>
Palmer proves need for appeal to the World Court
Monday, 5 September 2011, 5:28 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
The UN Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident, known as the The Palmer Report (described by award-winning US journalist Max Blumenthal as “factually challenged”) attempted to justify the blockade of ... More >>
The nightly terror of home invasion
Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 11:40 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
The bare headings “night home invasions” and “peace disruption raids” reported day-in and day-out in the PHRC's In Occupied Palestine daily newsletter must, inevitably, lose something of their impact after years of repetition. It is hard for us to imagine ... More >>
Open Letter to McCully
Saturday, 11 June 2011, 4:25 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
The key to peace in the Middle East is an end to discrimination – open questions to Murray McCully More >>
Wayne Mapp fawns over Israel
Friday, 27 May 2011, 10:58 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Palestine Human Rights Campaign's Leslie Bravery writes that the New Zealand Government is fawning over Israel and its diplomatic staff, and cites recent speeches by New Zealand Defence Minister Wayne Mapp and foreign Minister Murray McCully to illustrate ... More >>
Protest against Speaker of Israeli Knesset
Friday, 1 April 2011, 1:40 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
From 6.30pm on Sunday, Palestinian Human Rights activists will demonstrate outside the Greys Avenue Synagogue in Auckland against the presence of the Speaker of the Israeli Knesset (parliament), Reuven Rivlin, who is the guest of the Auckland Jewish ... More >>
The West's selective concern for civilians
Thursday, 24 March 2011, 12:32 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
In the 24 hours to 8am, 22 March 2011, Israeli soldiers beat up and hospitalised a 12-year-old Palestinian boy and injured a total of eight children in air strikes and other violence. New Zealand Television News channels ignored these horrors and ... More >>
Concerning New Zealand and the US-NZ Partnership Forum
Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 11:57 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
In his opening address to the US-NZ Partnership Forum Prime Minister John Key said: “this Government decided earlier this month to extend the deployment of the New Zealand Special Air Service to Afghanistan.” and he went on to say: More >>
PHRC deplores US veto on UN resolution condemning Israeli
Sunday, 20 February 2011, 9:39 pm | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
PHRC deplores US veto on UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements The Palestine Human Rights Campaign Aotearoa/New Zealand (PHRC) spokesperson, Billy Hania, denounced the US action in using its veto to block a Security Council Resolution affirming ... More >>
Open Letter to Hon. Murray McCully
Monday, 15 November 2010, 11:22 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Open Letter to Hon. Murray McCully, NZ Foreign Affairs Minister Palestine Human Rights Campaign Aotearoa/New Zealand - 14 November 2010 More >>
Open Letter to the Hon. Murray McCully
Monday, 20 September 2010, 9:39 am | Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Some weeks ago you wrote to us justifying Israel's admission to membership of the OECD, seeing it as an opportunity to influence Israel, through dialogue, regarding its failure to abide by its international obligations. We have written to you since ... More >>
