Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 4:13 pm
Landmark elections in the Occupied Palestinian territory
must be rescheduled soon and include East Jerusalem, three
UN independent human rights experts said in a statement on
Monday.
The first parliamentary and presidential
elections in 15 years were scheduled to take place in May
and July, respectively.
But they were postponed by
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on 29 April, amid
concerns about the ability to vote in East
Jerusalem.
Take all steps necessary
Expressing
their deep concern over the postponement, the UN experts
called on the Palestinian Authority and Israel “to take
all steps necessary within their power” to reschedule the
Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 4:23 pm
The
history of Hamilton’s five local hapuu is the inspiration
behind spectacular new artwork on the Waikato
River.
The artwork has been incorporated into the new
central city jetty, which is now open for anyone to use,
below Waikato Museum. The new jetty is a floating pontoon
that can rise and fall with river levels and replaces the
previous fixed wooden structure.
Meanwhile, a new
revetment wall running below the jetty, will help make the
riverbank more accessible, so more people can enjoy the
riverside.
The artwork includes five pou (pillars)
featuring sculptures representing ancestral stories from
Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 10:22 am
Reflecting on over decade of joint service to the
Waimakariri Water Zone Committee, former chair Dave Ashby
and deputy chair Cam Henderson view the collaborative
approach adopted during the process that led to the
Waimakariri part of proposed Plan Change 7 of the Land &
Water Regional Plan (PC7) as the highlight of their time on
the committee.
Caption: Former
Waimakariri Water Zone Committee chair Dave Ashby and former
deputy chair Cam Henderson consider teamwork and community
participation as vital for improving local
waterways.
Flaxton dairy farmer and farm
consultant Dave Ashby, who served on the committee for eight
Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 11:11 am
For all involved, this year’s Olympic Games have called for a willing suspension of anxiety. For now at least, the displays of skill and agility have been compelling enough to muffle some of the previous misgivings about the wisdom of asking athletes from all corners of the world to converge in one place in the middle of a pandemic, and at the height of a Tokyo summer.
It doesn’t take a lot though, to bring the underlying anxiety surging back to the fore. The sight of all those empty seats in all those huge (and hugely expensive) stadiums can be triggering enough. After the IOC bigwigs have flown back to Europe, the people of Tokyo – who never wanted this event – will be left to cope with not only the whopping financial loss but the irresponsible uncertainty that Tokyo 2020 could still end up being a super-spreader Covid event for the host nation.
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