By Cameron Walker
For 24 long years New Zealand ignored the people of East Timor as they were being brutalized by the Indonesian military. New Zealand cannot ignore the human rights tragedy which is unfolding in West Papua, right on our doorstep in the Pacific.

By Corrina Howland, age 14, Wellington
Fahrenheit 9/11 is Bush-bashing at its cinematographic best. The documentary provides an insight into Michael Moore’s many theorems about George Dubya and takes viewers step by step through the scandals and subsequent cover-ups made by the Bush government upon the issue of the Iraq War.

By Amina Lafaraie. This is her story of how her family were forced to hide from the Taleban in the city of Kabul in Afghanistan.

Before escaping to New Zealand, Amina Lafaraie, 16, and her family were forced to hide from the Taleban in the city of Kabul in Afghanistan. This is her story of her experience. Amina talks to Paul Zoubkov about her life in New Zealand and memories of Kabul and the recent war in Afghanistan.

The pain and suffering of war continues and the world never seems to learn.
But violent conflict can and must be stopped. Everybody needs to work together to achieve a just world peace.

By Paul Zoubkov and the Global Focus Advisory Group. Wars from colonisation, wars as a profit and war in the hands of the media.

By Amanda Edwards. In 1998 ethnic tension erupted between the local inhabitants of Guadalcanal Island and the more recent arrivals from the neighbouring island of Malaita.

Amina talks to Paul Zoubkov about her life in New Zealand and memories of Kabul and the recent war in Afghanistan.