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- NZAID Field Blog
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NZAID's field blog gives an up-close and up-to-date insight on the realities of aid on the ground. NZAID staff will update the blog as they travel to the field to visit NZ funded programmes and projects. The first blog will be written by NZAID Communication Manager, Catrina McDiarmid, who is travelling to Papua New Guinea on a visit focussing on the Millennium Development Goals and the Pacific, HIV/AIDS, and other sexual and reproductive health issues. (NZAID, 2006)
(Added: Mon May 22 2006 Modified: Thu Jun 08 2006 Hits: 321)
- 60 years of serving the poor?
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World Vision New Zealand, 14 May 2004, by Simon Duffy. In the diamond anniversary year of the World Bank and the IMF, World Vision's Simon Duffy reflects on the history of two institutions that New Zealand taxpayers help to fund.
http://staging.worldvision.org.nz/news/archive/20040513_21.asp
(Added: Mon Jun 28 2004 Modified: Fri Aug 25 2006 Hits: 308)
- A Joint Study Investigating the Benefits of a Closer Economic Partnership (CEP) Agreement between Thailand and New Zealand - April 2004
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Regional and Multilateral Context of the Thailand/New Zealand CEP Thailand and New Zealand are leading players in regional and global trade liberalisation and economic reform.
(Added: Wed Mar 10 2004 Modified: Fri Feb 09 2007 Hits: 425)
- ARENA - action, research & education network of aotearoa
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Arena is an Aotearoa/New Zealand network of individuals and organizations committed to resist 'globalization' in all its forms. Arena stands for an alternative development model based on self-determination, social justice, genuine people-centered development and environmental sustainability.
(Added: Fri Nov 30 2001 Modified: Tue Aug 23 2005 Hits: 460)
- Bob Geldof slams New Zealand aid contributions
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Anti-poverty campaigner and musician Bob Geldof slammed the level of New Zealand's international aid contributions as 'pathetic' on Friday, provoking a claim from the government that he had his facts wrong. (DPA, 14 July 2006)
(Added: Mon Jul 17 2006 Hits: 265)
- Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA)
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CAFCA promotes the concept of an independent Aotearoa based on policies of economic, military and political self-reliance, using Aotearoa's resources for the benefit of the people of Aotearoa, and refusing involvement in the self-serving military and economic treaties of big foreign countries. We oppose foreign control, irrespective of which country it involves. We oppose the exploitation of Aotearoa's people and resources by foreign companies, and any foreign military or intelligence activities in Aotearoa. CAFCA does not support the replacement of foreign exploiters with local ones. New Zealand big business interests are collaborating with foreign companies in the exploitation of its own country - its only loyalty is to improve profits. CAFCA IS NOT RACIST. We do not oppose the people of foreign countries, only the transnational corporations (TNC's) exploiting the people of New Zealand.
http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/community/CAFCA/
(Added: Thu May 08 2003 Modified: Fri Feb 09 2007 Hits: 479)
- Climate Change: MFAT Post 2012 Negotiations Stakeholder Session
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Presentations from half-day workshop on Climate Change hosted but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on 16 August 2007 (MFAT, 2007).
(Added: Mon Oct 15 2007 Modified: Thu Oct 18 2007 Hits: 89)
- Critique Of The Proposed Chile/New Zealand Closer Economic Partnership (P3 With Singapore) [PDF 77KB]
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Written by Prue Hyman and Dr Jane Kelsey, ARENA, December 2004 In November 2002 the governments of Chile and New Zealand announced negotiations for a free trade and investment agreement - euphemistically called a Closer Economic Partnership (CEP) - that would expand and extend the agreement between New Zealand and Singapore that came into force in 2001 to form a Pacific 3 (P-3). The decision to negotiate this agreement is ill conceived and irresponsible in ARENA's view. Neither the New Zealand nor Chilean government has examined the real social and economic implications for their people and the potential of a P-3 to deepen structural inequalities that impact most severely on women and indigenous peoples. According to ARENA, the New Zealand, Chile and Singapore governments are promoting a P- 3 whose primary - and arguably only - beneficiaries are the transnational companies that straddle two of the three countries, including opportunists who locate there to take advantage of the deal. The greatest potential beneficiaries are the agribusiness interests of Fonterra and Nestle as they promote their shared strategy to dominate Latin America's dairy industry.
http://www.arena.org.nz/chilefta.pdf
(Added: Fri Oct 14 2005 Modified: Tue Aug 15 2006 Hits: 246)
- Doha Dealing:Trade Talks not tax cuts will decide our future
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In this article Aotearoa New Zealand economist Brian Easton argues that unless major decisions are made at the WTO's Doha Round, negotiations may be in trouble and the New Zealand economy along with it. Easton highlights the most unfair trade in the world market-farm products, which the rich countries - especially the EU, Japan and the US - rig, in order to protect their farmers. However, Easton suggests that recent rulings by the WTO should eventually mean the abolishment of farm subsidies. A case of when rather than if.
http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/article682.html
(Added: Thu Dec 15 2005 Modified: Tue Aug 15 2006 Hits: 317)
- Free trade costs local liberty
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This op ed highlights New Zealand's role in furthering the WTO's potential to undermine central and local government. (Dr Russel Norman, New Zealand Herald, 10 July 2006)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=000B9B99-8970-14B0-B67183027AF10190
(Added: Thu Jul 27 2006 Hits: 195)
- From "Secret Power" to "The Hollow Men"
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Read the transcription of this speach by Nicky Hager on the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), was recorded in January 2007, in Blenheim. (Converge)
http://www.converge.org.nz/watchdog/14/02.htm
(Added: Tue May 29 2007 Hits: 119)
- Goff welcomes report as blueprint for UN reform
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Beehive.govt.nz, 22/03/2005 Goff welcomes report as blueprint for UN reform Foreign Minister Phil Goff has welcomed a report by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan calling for decisive and bold reform of the UN.
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=22528
(Added: Wed Mar 23 2005 Modified: Thu Jun 08 2006 Hits: 307)
- Have your say on trade negotiations and trade-related issues
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Aotearoa New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade welcomes input on trade negotiations and trade-related issues from businesses, iwi, NGOs, individuals and other interested stakeholders. If you wish to have your say on any of their current or upcoming negotiations, or if you wish to be kept informed of future consultation rounds for specific negotiations, go to this website.
http://www.mfat.govt.nz/Trade-and-Economic-Relations/Business-gateway/index.php#haveyoursay
(Added: Fri Dec 01 2006 Hits: 360)
- How Much Do Kiwis Care? (PDF)
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Council for International Development (CID). New Zealanders give generously to overseas aid. * One in every six New Zealanders contributes to aid and development projects overseas * They give over $64 million * One in 12 gives regularly to the same not-for-profit organisation * More than 8000 people are volunteers in the cause of international aid and development. These were among the main findings of a survey of 60 New Zealand-based international development organisations, carried out recently by the Council for International Development (CID) A third of the funding went to African countries in the sub-Saharan region, and a quarter went to the Indian sub-continent. Projects supported were focussed on supporting women and children, on the provision of basic services, such as education, health, water and sanitation and on the development of sustainable livelihoods for poor communities. NGOs made a very substantial contribution to New Zealand's aid to developing countries, over half as much as that given by the government to regional and country programmes. Overall, the survey shows that aid from NGOs to developing countries significantly enhances and complements the aid from the New Zealand government.
http://www.cid.org.nz/publications/How_much_do_Kiwis_care.pdf
(Added: Tue Jan 13 2004 Modified: Tue Sep 12 2006 Hits: 268)
- Influences in the Pacific
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs speaks on New Zealand's role in the Pacific region. (Winston Peters, 16 August 2006)
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=26805
(Added: Mon Aug 21 2006 Hits: 235)
- Joint New Zealand-Australia statement on Zimbabwe
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2/07/2005. The continued failure of the Zimbabwean Government to respect democracy and human rights needs to be addressed firmly by the international community. The Australian and New Zealand Foreign Ministers today agreed on a range of measures aimed at increasing international pressure on the Mugabe regime to cease its abhorrent and egregious destruction of its people's homes, livelihoods and basic human rights.
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=23554
(Added: Tue Jul 05 2005 Modified: Thu Jun 08 2006 Hits: 273)
- New Horizons: The Pacific's economic challenge
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New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters' speech to the New Zealand Pacific Business Council, on the challenges facing the Pacific - poverty and hardship, isolation and distance, small populations and limited employment prospects, natural disasters and disease - as well as what can be done to turn this situation around. (Winston Peters, 18 August 2006)
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=26840
(Added: Mon Aug 21 2006 Hits: 194)
- New Zealand to Co-Sponsor UN Resolution on Arms Trade Treaty
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New Zealand will co-sponsor a new United Nations resolution led by the United Kingdom, backing the establishment of a treaty to regulate trading in conventional arms. Conventional arms are used every day in conflicts around the world, exacting large-scale suffering - taking hundreds of thousands lives a year - and violating human rights and international humanitarian law. (Phil Goff, Beehive, 28 November 2006)
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=27243
(Added: Fri Sep 29 2006 Hits: 189)
- New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement
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This is a regularly updated dossier of articles on this comprehensive bilateral free trade agreement, which the governments aim to conclude by 2007 or 2008. (Bilaterals.org)
http://www.bilaterals.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=100
(Added: Wed Nov 15 2006 Hits: 190)
- NZ backs efforts for Middle East ceasefire
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Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that New Zealand was strongly supporting the efforts of the UN Secretary General to bring about an immediate ceasefire to the conflict in the Middle East and to negotiate and implement a solution to the crisis. New Zealand called on all sides to pull back from violence, observe international law and allow international facilitators and mediators a chance to put a peace process together. (NZ Government, 24 July 2006)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0607/S00385.htm
(Added: Tue Jul 25 2006 Hits: 176)
- NZ Government Invests in Environmental Destruction and Human Rights Abuses
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The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is investing in US mining giant Freeport McMoRan despite questions over the company's human rights and environmental record in West Papua. (Wellington West Papua Rights Group, Scoop, 14 November 2006)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00201.htm
(Added: Tue Nov 14 2006 Hits: 171)
- NZ opposition probes whaling link to aid
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Six Pacific island nations helped Japan win a symbolic vote at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in favour of a resumption of commercial whaling. Whereas New Zealand's oppostion said that the IWC should not be able to buy votes and that New Zealand aid money will be wasted if a higher standard of governance is not achieved, Prime Minister Helen said that while the government was sad that its Pacific neighbours had sided with Japan, she would not link aid to the issue as "tying aid is the worst possible aid practice." (Sydney Morning Herald, 20 June 2006)
(Added: Wed Jun 21 2006 Hits: 227)
- NZ passes new anti-terrorism measures
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26 November. Foreign Minister Phil Goff announced that Cabinet today approved Regulations providing tougher measures against specified terrorist organisations.
http://www.executive.govt.nz/speech.cfm?speechralph=36740&SR=0
(Added: Tue Nov 27 2001 Modified: Thu Jul 13 2006 Hits: 254)
- NZ to host Pacific security meetings
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New Zealand will host a number of meetings on Pacific security next week, Foreign Minister Phil Goff announced today. Senior law enforcement and policy officials from around the Pacific will meet in Auckland on 14 and 15 June for the Pacific Island Forum's annual Regional Security Committee meeting. This will be preceded on 13 June by an inaugural Half-Day Working Group on Counter-Terrorism, which will focus on discussing progress and challenges faced by Pacific Island countries in meeting international, regional and bilateral counter-terrorism obligations. The Forum Regional Security Committee will discuss ways to deepen regional cooperation on law enforcement, customs, immigration and transport security. Officials will also assess broader security issues affecting the Pacific, and will discuss current regional cooperation initiatives including progress in the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI).
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=23316
(Added: Mon Jun 13 2005 Modified: Thu Jun 08 2006 Hits: 243)
- NZAID Trade Development Assistance
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NZAID's page on Trade Development Assistance. 'New Zealand supports the view that trade can reduce poverty, but it delivers best when critical economic and governance factors are in place. The potential financial and welfare gains from fair trade far outweigh the financial flows from development assistance. These and other ideas are explored in NZAID's trade and development policy, "Harnessing International Trade for Development".'
http://www.nzaid.govt.nz/what-we-do/trade-and-development.html
(Added: Tue Aug 23 2005 Modified: Wed Oct 18 2006 Hits: 244)
