OVER FIVE MILLION YEMENIS AT RISK OF LOSING ACCESS TO FOOD AND CLEAN WATER...
Source: Save The Children
Survey* conducted in Yemen reveals impact of funding shortfalls as Pledging conference is held today
Recent funding gaps and other challenges in...
Human Rights – PSNA: Israel must be excluded from any Covid 19 travel bubble...
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Source: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA)
PSNA has written to the Prime Minister urging the government to reject Israeli participation in a proposed...
Life during coronavirus: Missing school, missing friends
Source: Save The Children
Over 90% of the world’s children and students have missed out on school because of coronavirus. Children everywhere have had their...
Lebanon: Students miss half the school year due to double impact of economic and...
Source: Save The Children
Questionnaires with 137 youth provide snapshot view of challenges in maintaining education.
As students in Lebanon enter the fourth month of school...
Public health units waste our money. Don’t give them more!
Source: Taxpayers Union
28 MAY 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe calls for public health specialists for more taxpayer funding could be taken more seriously if they stopped wasting money...
UN Security Council failing civilians caught in conflict
Source: Amnesty International NZ
The UN Security Council must live up to its decades-old pledge to minimize civilian suffering caused by war, Amnesty International said...
Technology – InternetNZ: Government Internet filtering not the answer
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions
Source: InternetNZ
This week the government introduced a proposed legal framework for Internet filtering, alongside proposed new powers for the Chief Censor on online...
DHB prioritises patients according to race: Health Commissioner must intervene
Source: Taxpayers Union
27 MAY 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEResponding to Capital and Coast DHB’s decision to place Māori and Pacific at the front of elective surgery wait lists,...
Keeping Learning Alive
Source: Save The Children
Education and learning is a key pillar of Save the Children’s Agenda for Action to #ProtectAGeneration throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
Even before the...
COVID-19: Advice for New Zealanders Overseas
Source: New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Safe Travel
COVID-19: Advice for New Zealanders Overseas
New Zealand moved to Alert Level 2 at...
Pay cut law failure: Remuneration Authority refuses to use new powers
Source: Taxpayers Union
25 MAY 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThe Remuneration Authority’s refusal to cut salaries for councillors and mayors paid under $100,000 makes a joke of the...
West Papua’s highway of blood – a case of destruction not development
Source: Dr David Robie – Café Pacific – Analysis-Reportage:
A Papuan with a face painting of the banned Papuan independence flag Morning Star. Image: The...