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October 24, 2024
Asia Pacific Report France’s Supreme Court has overturned a judgment imprisoning pretrial in mainland France Kanak pro-independence leader Christian Tein, who is widely regarded as a political prisoner, reports Libération. Tein, who is head of the CCAT (Field Action Coordination Unit) in New Caledonia was in August elected president of the main pro-independence umbrella group ... <a title="Kanak leader Christian Tein’s jailing in France overturned in new legal twist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/24/kanak-leader-christian-teins-jailing-in-france-overturned-in-new-legal-twist/" aria-label="Read more about Kanak leader Christian Tein’s jailing in France overturned in new legal twist">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2024
By Victor Mambor in Jayapura With Prabowo Subianto, a controversial former general installed as Indonesia’s new president, residents in the disputed Papua region were responding to this reality with anxiety and, for some, cautious optimism. The remote and resource-rich region has long been a flashpoint for conflict, with its people enduring decades of alleged military ... <a title="Prabowo’s presidency sparks fear and faint hope in Indonesia’s contested Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/23/prabowos-presidency-sparks-fear-and-faint-hope-in-indonesias-contested-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Prabowo’s presidency sparks fear and faint hope in Indonesia’s contested Papua">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Christchurch, New Zealand’s third-largest city, today became the first local government in the country to sanction Israel by voting to halt business with organisations involved in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. It passed a resolution to amend its procurement policy to exclude companies building and maintaining illegal Israeli settlements on ... <a title="NZ’s third-largest city sanctions Israel over illegal Palestine settlements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/23/nzs-third-largest-city-sanctions-israel-over-illegal-palestine-settlements/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s third-largest city sanctions Israel over illegal Palestine settlements">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2024
By Sialai Sarafina Sanerivi in Apia The Ocean Declaration that will be agreed upon at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) this week will be known as the Apia Ocean Declaration. In an exclusive interview with the Samoa Observer, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland said members were in a unique position to bring their voices ... <a title="Apia Ocean Declaration to be ‘crown jewel’ of CHOGM climate ‘fight back’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/23/apia-ocean-declaration-to-be-crown-jewel-of-chogm-climate-fight-back/" aria-label="Read more about Apia Ocean Declaration to be ‘crown jewel’ of CHOGM climate ‘fight back’">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2024
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby A deadly ambush unfolded in Enga province between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. last night, leaving multiple people dead after a bus was attacked by armed men. Police confirmed to the Post-Courier that bodies were found both inside the bus and scattered in nearby bushland. Men and women attempting ... <a title="Deadly bus ambush in PNG’s Enga province kills, wounds many" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/23/deadly-bus-ambush-in-pngs-enga-province-kills-wounds-many/" aria-label="Read more about Deadly bus ambush in PNG’s Enga province kills, wounds many">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2024
INTERVIEW: By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Last week, New Caledonia was visited by France’s new Overseas Minister, François Buffet, offering a more conciliatory position by Paris. This week, the territory, torn apart by violent riots, is to receive a Pacific Islands Forum fact-finding mission comprised of four prime ministers. New Caledonia has been ... <a title="New Caledonia crisis: Pacific leaders’ mission must ‘look beyond surface’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/23/new-caledonia-crisis-pacific-leaders-mission-must-look-beyond-surface/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia crisis: Pacific leaders’ mission must ‘look beyond surface’">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2024
By Harry Pearl of BenarNews An initial hearing of a class action against mining giant Rio Tinto over the toxic legacy of the Panguna copper mine on the autonomous island of Bougainville has been held in Papua New Guinea. The lawsuit against Rio Tinto and its subsidiary Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) is seeking compensation, expected ... <a title="Rio Tinto class action begins over ‘toxic’ Bougainville mine disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/13/rio-tinto-class-action-begins-over-toxic-bougainville-mine-disaster/" aria-label="Read more about Rio Tinto class action begins over ‘toxic’ Bougainville mine disaster">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2024
This week marked the grim one-year anniversary of the surprise October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza — a conflict that has taken a devastating toll on journalists and media outlets in Palestine, reports the International Press Institute. In Gaza, Israeli strikes have killed at least 123 ... <a title="One year of war in Gaza – protect journalists now, says IPI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/12/one-year-of-war-in-gaza-protect-journalists-now-says-ipi/" aria-label="Read more about One year of war in Gaza – protect journalists now, says IPI">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2024
Pacific Media Watch ABC’s The Pacific has gained rare access into West Papua, a region ruled by Indonesia that has been plagued by military violence and political unrest for decades. Now, as well as the long-running struggle for independence, some say the Melanesian region’s pristine environment is under threat by the expansion of logging and ... <a title="West Papua – the war on our doorstep under The Pacific spotlight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/12/west-papua-the-war-on-our-doorstep-under-the-pacific-spotlight/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua – the war on our doorstep under The Pacific spotlight">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2024
By John Minto Published in the Christchurch Star newspaper yesterday — this was the advert rejected last week by Stuff, New Zealand’s major news website, by an editorial management which apparently thinks pro-Israel sympathies are more important than the industrial-scale slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and Lebanon. Stuff told the Palestinian Solidarity Movement Aotearoa (PSNA) ... <a title="Published by the Star – the genocide advert that Stuff didn’t want you to see" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/12/published-by-the-star-the-genocide-advert-that-stuff-didnt-want-you-to-see/" aria-label="Read more about Published by the Star – the genocide advert that Stuff didn’t want you to see">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2024
By Stefan Armbruster 0f BenarNews French Polynesia’s president and civil society leaders have called on the United Nations to bring France to the negotiating table and set a timetable for the decolonisation of the Pacific territory. More than a decade after the archipelago was re-listed for decolonisation by the UN General Assembly, France has refused ... <a title="Bring France into decolonisation talks, French Polynesian president tells UN" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/11/bring-france-into-decolonisation-talks-french-polynesian-president-tells-un/" aria-label="Read more about Bring France into decolonisation talks, French Polynesian president tells UN">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Racism, torture and arbitrary arrests are some examples of discrimination indigenous Papuans have dealt with over the last 60 years from Indonesia, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report, If It’s Not Racism, What Is It? Discrimination and other abuses against Papuans in Indonesia, said ... <a title="Discrimination faced by indigenous Papuans ‘isn’t something new’, says disturbing new rights report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/20/discrimination-faced-by-indigenous-papuans-isnt-something-new-says-disturbing-new-rights-report/" aria-label="Read more about Discrimination faced by indigenous Papuans ‘isn’t something new’, says disturbing new rights report">Read more</a>
