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Indigenous Peoples' Rights Rapporteur Visits
Monday, 19 July 2010, 1:10 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
Visit of the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Peoples' Rights, 18 to 23 July 2010 More >>
Defence Review credibility questioned
Thursday, 17 June 2010, 9:41 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
16 June 2010 This update on the Defence Review follows the release of the 'Defence Review Consultation: Summary of Submissions' document last week. Initial concerns about the credibility of the Defence Review process, raised when the public consultation ... More >>
2010 White Poppies for Peace Annual Appeal
Friday, 16 April 2010, 10:22 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
The 2010 White Poppies for Peace Annual Appeal starts tomorrow and runs until Saturday, 24 April. More >>
UN Committee on NZ's Civil and Political rights
Saturday, 27 March 2010, 1:48 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
Below are the Concluding Observations of the UN Human Rights Committee (released overnight at the conclusion of the Committee's 98th session) on their consideration of the government's performance under the International Covenant on Civil and Political ... More >>
Waihopai Ploughshares trial helped uncover secrets
Thursday, 18 March 2010, 9:40 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
Adrian Leason, Father Peter Murnane and Sam Land - the three men who were charged with intentional damage and unlawful entry at Waihopai spy base - have today expressed their thanks to the jury, the judge, and the prosecution and defence lawyers. More >>
Waihopai Ploughshares Trial: Events Calendar
Sunday, 21 February 2010, 1:58 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
Below are the details of the Waihopai Ploughshares support events taking place in Wellington from Saturday, 6th to Friday, 12th March. The Waihopai Ploughshares publicity poster, which includes an outline of the support events, is available online at http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/pltrial.pdf More >>
Solidarity with West Papua on 1 December
Saturday, 28 November 2009, 1:21 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
27 November 2009 Kia ora, Tuesday, 1 December, marks the forty-eighth anniversary of the West Papuan Declaration of Independence from Dutch colonial rule - sometimes referred to as West Papua Independence Day - and as in previous years, the Day will ... More >>
NZ Ex-Hostage Returns to Iraq
Thursday, 19 November 2009, 9:30 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
Harmeet Singh Sooden has joined an international human rights delegation travelling to Iraqi Kurdistan from 7 to 23 November 2009. Iraqi Kurdistan is a semi-autonomous region of Iraq administered by the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). The delegation ... More >>
NZ SAS: complicit in torture & civilian casualties
Tuesday, 11 August 2009, 12:17 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
As you will have heard by now, Cabinet decided yesterday to deploy the SAS in Afghanistan again. A decision rather at odds with Prime Minister John Key's statement only last week that: "there's no place for violence in the New Zealand Parliament, of even ... More >>
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day events + Peace Sunday
Saturday, 8 August 2009, 1:46 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
Below are details of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day events this weekend in Auckland and Christchurch, a Peace Sunday service in Auckland, as well as links to the Peace Sunday resources focused on justice for the Morurua workers, and the 2009 Hiroshima and ... More >>
UN examines NZ's human rights performance
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 2:18 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
On Thursday, 7 May, the government's overall performance on human rights will be examined for the first time through the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. The UPR is a mechanism established in 2006 whereby the UN Human Rights Council reviews ... More >>
2009 White Poppy Annual Appeal
Saturday, 18 April 2009, 11:53 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
From 2009, the White Poppy Annual Appeal is being held from 17 to 24 April, with all proceeds going to the new White Poppy Peace Scholarships. More >>
Submissions due: Foreshore and Seabed Act Review
Friday, 17 April 2009, 12:42 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
this action alert has information about the Foreshore and Seabed Act Ministerial Review, and how you can contribute to it. There are three main sections below: 1) About the Ministerial review; 2) What you can do, including details of how you can ... More >>
What's On Where In The NZ Peace Movement
Monday, 2 March 2009, 11:36 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
~ Ongoing - UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples petition: the deadline of 1 March for return of signatures on the petition has been extended as the petition has not yet been scheduled for consideration by a Select Committee. The final deadline ... More >>
Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day
Sunday, 1 March 2009, 2:18 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
Today, 1 March, is Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day ('Bikini' Day) which marks the anniversary of the US 'Bravo' nuclear bomb detonation at Bikini Atoll [*] in 1954. The explosion gouged out a crater more than 200 feet deep and a mile across, ... More >>
Gaza update: protests, weapons, humanitarian sit'n
Thursday, 8 January 2009, 10:47 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
The contents of this web page were in an email message we attempted to send through our national e-lists earlier today, only to have the message vanish without trace. When we re-sent it several hours later, again the message totally disappeared. According ... More >>
PMA: Indigenous Rights Petition to Parliament
Thursday, 11 December 2008, 7:55 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
Human Rights Day: Indigenous Rights Petition to Parliament The first signatures on the national petition calling on the government to support the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples will be presented to parliament at 1pm on Human ... More >>
Act now to support Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Sunday, 14 September 2008, 1:38 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
13 September 2008 Act now to support the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples On 13 September 2007, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Declaration provides ... More >>
Support Waihopai Ploughshares, 17-18 September
Wednesday, 10 September 2008, 12:09 am | Peace Movement Aotearoa
Here's how you can support Waihopai Ploughshares around their depositions hearing which will be held at Blenheim District Court on Thursday, 18 September. There are four sections below: what's happening in Blenheim on 17 and 18 September, supporting ... More >>
Coalition Deplores Russia's Use Of Cluster Bombs
Sunday, 17 August 2008, 1:32 pm | Peace Movement Aotearoa
(Wellington, 15 August 2008: 6.30pm) The Aotearoa New Zealand Cluster Munition Coalition deplores Russia’s use of cluster munitions in Georgia and calls on the New Zealand government to protest this use of cluster munitions, a banned weapon, in the strongest ... More >>
